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UNL this Week 011516

Martin Luther King Jr.

King Week to include march, panel discussion

January 19, 2016

The national study of college students, conducted by Barney McCoy of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications, found that students check their phones and other digital devices 11 times a day on average while in class.

Study: Digital distraction in class is on the rise

January 15, 2016

Society & Culture

Underwhelmed by Oscar nods? Try Dixon's picks

January 15, 2016

Society & Culture

Jinsong Huang

Scientists take step toward perfecting solar cells

January 13, 2016

Science & Technology

U.S. News ranks online programs among nation’s best

January 12, 2016

To support the new visual communications curriculum, the lower level of Andersen Hall will become an open-concept interactive digital and social media hub.

Journalism college unveils visual communications program

January 12, 2016

Society & Culture

Eleanor Avery, a freshman supply chain manaagement major, studies in Love Library's new Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons on its Jan. 11 opening day. The space offers a variety of study and collaboration options to UNL students and is open 24 hours every day.

Learning Commons draws 1,130+ on opening day

January 12, 2016

The Chiara String Quartet

Chiara earns residency at NYC's Met Museum

January 11, 2016

Matthias Fuchs

Cover illustration features Fuchs' research

January 8, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A renovation of the south entrance to UNL's Nebraska Union has started. The first phase of the project, which will continue into the first two weeks of the spring semester, upgrades drainage to direct rainwater away from the building.

Project to enhance original Nebraska Union entrance

January 8, 2016

A custom combine crew harvests a wheat field west of Grant, Neb. UNL's School of Natural Resources is the home to a new Nebraska State Climate Office that will serve as the primary source of climate information for the Cornhusker State.

IANR establishes Nebraska State Climate Office

January 6, 2016

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska included in publication's list of top military schools

January 6, 2016