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Grand Challenges

A boy gets placed in an MRI machine.

Team publishes road map for advancing health equity

December 17, 2025

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

A metal sign reads "Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts."

Carson Center event to spark creative exploration

December 18, 2024

Cattle graze in a pasture.

UNL commits $5 million to better measure environmental impact of cattle

November 7, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Wick Alumni Center

Grand Challenges team holding health equity symposium Sept. 25

September 18, 2024

Pamoja Project group in Kenya

From Nebraska to Kenya, project aims to fulfill a Grand Challenge

July 18, 2024

Society & Culture

Symposium discussing health disparities is March 18

March 8, 2024

A man at a lectern speaks to about 20 people seated around tables.

Husker faculty, NASA pursue partnerships on Midwest climate resilience

March 6, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Deborah Bathke, interim state climatologist, talks during the Climate Resilient Communities Symposium.

Real-life experiences shape new Husker climate resilience strategy

February 28, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Research team photo with members sitting and standing by a wall.

Grand Challenges project aims to strengthen early childhood workforce

January 29, 2024

Society & Culture

Michelle Hughes, a professor in Special Education and Communication Disorders, was one of eight UNL faculty members selected to receive a Grand Challenges planning grant.

Hughes aims to improve health disparities in underserved populations

October 31, 2023

Society & Culture

A still from the Speculative Devices Lab, a working prototype that shows a combination of photogrammetry, 360 video and 2D archival image within a Real-Time 3D game engine that allows the player to move around the environment with six degrees of freedom and experience in a VR headset or on a computer screen. Image courtesy of Speculative Devices Lab.

Old missile silo reimagined through storytelling, emerging tech

October 9, 2023

Take this 30-minute workshop to learn how to create dynamic Libraires Course Materials lists for your classes in Canvas.

11 projects funded through Grand Challenges competition

August 28, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture