Matthew Jockers, assistant professor of English, has assembled a way to quantify the spirit of those sayings, particularly when it comes to certain authors and the impressions they left on other writers. And in doing so, he's opened a new door for literary theorists to study classic literature. Continue reading…
The Wick Alumni Center is displaying the Missouri-Nebraska Bell and the Corn Bowl Trophy with Iowa. The Missouri-Nebraska Bell was exchanged for more than 80 years and the Corn Bowl was started in 2011. Both trophies reside side by side in the Wick Alumni Center for public viewing. Continue reading…
Tsegaye Tadesse spent a month in Ethiopia this summer working on collaborative projects related to food and water, on behalf of an interdisciplinary team from UNL. The climatologist and remote sensing expert visited sites identified as good locations to pilot now low-tech wells. Continue reading…
The School of Music recruited its first intact graduate string quartet this fall. The Skyros String Quartet comes to UNL for their doctoral education and will study with the Chiara String Quartet. Continue reading…
A new educational program - Biology of Human - will help the public better understand advances in biomedical research. The State Museum, Nebraska Center for Virology and UNL sociologists are teaming with children, science writers and multimedia developers to create materials for national use. Continue reading…