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Cutline: Nebraska’s Asit Pattnaik (pictured) and UNMC’s Tom Petro are developing a vaccine framework that exploits the properties of a naturally occurring nanoparticle in an effort to produce a stronger, longer-lasting immune response than other COVID-19 vaccine candidates. They’re also taking a closer look at how SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, inhibits the immune system.

Researchers aim to use protein to ramp up COVID-19 antigens’ impact

November 5, 2020

Science & Technology

Each Monday, National Drought Mitigation Center assistant director Kelly Helm Smith emails a map of the past week’s #drought tweets to a listserv of drought experts and state climatologists.

Pilot system monitors tweets for drought early warning

November 5, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

With support from the Office of Research and Economic Development’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program, Shi-Hua Xiang is in the early stages of developing a bacterial delivery system for a COVID-19 vaccine that would be delivered directly to the respiratory tract as a nasal spray.

Nasal spray could mean needle-free COVID-19 vaccine

November 4, 2020

Science & Technology

Nebraska in the national news: October 2020

November 3, 2020

Extension webinar to focus on livestock risk management

November 3, 2020

Agriculture & Environment

Ken Dewey, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, records an episode of “Great Plains Anywhere.”

Great Plains Olson talks move online in new formats

October 22, 2020

Society & Culture

Colleen Medill, a professor in the College of Law, leads a lecture in McCollum Hall at the start of the fall 2020 semester.

Nebraska Law joins national police practices effort

October 15, 2020

The 2020 Clifton Builders are (top row, from left) Nicholas Anderson, Brook Bowman, Jake Bowman, Nicholas Chapa, Olivia Dohmen, Caleb Druckemiller, Charlie Dutton and Lauren Eihusen; (second row, from left) Maddie Elbracht, Grace Fuller, Bailey Hanus, Nathan Hauser, Anthony Heiman, Maria Heyen, Hailey Hutfless and Elizabeth Jardee; (third row, from left) Jack Johnson, Robert Khorram, Grace Laflen, Trevor LeGrande, Patrick Malec, Mason Mattes, Julia Michener and Ridley Miller; (bottom row, from l

35 students selected for Clifton Builders Program

October 8, 2020

Nebraska in the national news: September 2020

October 5, 2020

Human trafficking conference goes virtual, expands reach

October 1, 2020

Society & Culture

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is launching the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center to study the changing relationship between law and technology, and its affects on society.

University launches innovative center to study how technology is governed

September 22, 2020

University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are using collars fitted with GPS and accelerometers to track the movements and behavioral patterns of beef cattle and how they link to efficient beef production systems.

Husker researchers linking cattle behavior to efficient beef production

September 16, 2020

Agriculture & Environment