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The Husker Equestrian team recently won the western semifinals hosted by Texas Tech University. Team members (from left) are Megan Pokorny, Cassidy Chase, Taylor Pivonka, Emily Jonas, Hadley Olson, Emily Burnside, Taylor Dynek, Sarah Eberspacher and Ashley Blakely.

Husker equestrian team wins semifinals, headed to national championship

May 2, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Aaron Haake

Haake, 6 alumni receive NSF grad research fellowships

April 27, 2022

Science & Technology

The Feedlot Innovation Center will include a complex with two cattle comfort and research buildings, a feed technology facility, innovative open lots and an animal handling facility.

JBS USA supports new Feedlot Innovation Center with $700,000 gift

April 12, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Green at Augusta National Golf Club

Huskers assist at 2022 Masters Tournament

April 7, 2022

Society & Culture

The meat processing industry experienced major disruptions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Agricultural economics Professor Azzeddine Azzam has received funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to study the impact of the pandemic on meat processors and the resilience of the industry as a whole.

USDA grant to fund far-ranging study of meatpacking resilience

April 5, 2022

Nebraska in the national news: March 2022

April 4, 2022

Some locations and buildings on campus will adjust operating hours during Spring Break, March 11-20, 2022. [photo | University Communication]

Innocents Society, Mortar Board members inducted for 2022-23

April 4, 2022

Society & Culture

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A research paper by Trenton Franz, associate professor of hydrogeophysics at Nebraska, and co-authors points to an innovative irrigation approach that could decrease water use while increasing producer profitability.

Husker researchers develop tool to make irrigation more efficient

March 8, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska in the national news: February 2022

March 2, 2022

Society & Culture

Kathryn Holland, assistant professor of psychology and women’s and gender studies, is using a National Science Foundation grant to study how two institutions of higher education are implementing federal guidelines that address sexual violence on campus.

Holland’s research aims for survivor-first approach to reporting sexual violence

February 21, 2022

Sheep grazing in a field

Husker researcher building database to help farmers breed hardier sheep

February 16, 2022

Agriculture & Environment