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Husker researchers pose in a blue-lit lab. From left are: Kevin Smith, Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of political science; Heather Akin, associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication; Eileen Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences; Emma Brase, graduate student in psychology; and Mike Dodd, professor of psychology. Hebets has a tarantula on her right wrist.

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Students place rocks on the Holocasut Memorial. In Jewish cemeteries the tradition is to place rocks on the grave rather than flowers. History of the Holocaust course students visit the Holocaust memorial in Lincoln’s Wyuka Cemetery.

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Richard Graham, Associate Professor of University Libraries, right, and John Wiese place an Oz Black cartoon onto the scanner bed to digitize the drawing. Graham and Wiese are building an online archive of editorial cartoons from Nebraska alumnus Oz Black. These cartoons are mostly from the 1920s and 1930s, and ran in Nebraska newspapers headquartered in Lincoln.

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Husker researchers pose in a blue-lit lab. From left are: Kevin Smith, Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of political science; Heather Akin, associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication; Eileen Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences; Emma Brase, graduate student in psychology; and Mike Dodd, professor of psychology. Hebets has a tarantula on her right wrist.

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