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UNL's travel policy change mirrors recommendations set forth by federal, state and local public health agencies.

NU State Museum gives free passes to People’s City Mission

January 19, 2022

Nebraska's Margaret Huettl (right) is one of three experts selected to help Gameloft with an update to the Oregon Trail video game.

Huettl's Oregon Trail work featured in Science Café series

November 23, 2021

Society & Culture

The Genoa Indian School in 1911

Genoa Indian boarding school is topic of Nov. 11 panel talk

November 1, 2021

Society & Culture

The University of Nebraska State Museum exhibits team prepares one square meter of prairie plants for each of the four seasons. “Hidden Prairie” opens Oct. 16 and runs through May 2022.

Morrill Hall to celebrate birthday Nov. 4 with free admission, activities

October 28, 2021

UNL's travel policy change mirrors recommendations set forth by federal, state and local public health agencies.

NU State Museum gives free passes to Friendship Home

October 27, 2021

A long-horned milkweed beetle is seen on a Maximilian sunflower at Lincoln Creek Prairie near Aurora. The University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall’s new exhibition, “Hidden Prairie,” explores the diversity of life that can be found in a square meter of prairie.

NU State Museum opens new exhibition on prairie diversity

October 11, 2021

Visitors enjoy a preview visit to the new Cherish Nebraska exhibit in February 2019.

150 years on, NU museum keeps growing, changing

September 15, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Visitors stand in awe of the mammoth skeleton in Elephant Hall in 2018.

From mammoths to mini mammals, Morrill Hall has it all

September 15, 2021

Science & Technology

From left, Katie Edwards, associate professor, CYFS and educational psychology; Lee Pavia, founder of No Means No Worldwide and IMpower United; and Ramona Herrington, Lakota Elder and activist, on a South Dakota reservation. (Photo by Katie Edwards)

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Sept. 3

September 3, 2021

The University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall has donated free museum passes to program participants at the F Street Community Center.

NU State Museum gifts free passes to CEDARS

August 17, 2021

Four Husker faculty are among 489 new fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for July 30

July 30, 2021

The newly renovated “Ice Age Mammals” exhibition at Trailside Museum explores the migration of mammoths and Paleo-Indians. It was constructed in a style similar to Morrill Hall’s “Cherish Nebraska” exhibition.

Trailside Museum to celebrate 60th anniversary with Clash Bash

June 29, 2021