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Aug 17 2026	Stateline: Brank discusses parental responsibility laws Eve Brank, Aaron Douglas Professor of psychology, was interviewed for an Aug. 17 Stateline article on parental responsibility laws. Research by Brank and colleagues has found that legal professionals generally do not view the laws as effective, which could help explain why the laws are common but rarely enforced. She said there is also potential for the laws to be disproportionately applied to single-parent households, low-income families and families of color.
Aug 17 2026	Omaha World-Herald: New wearable with Nebraska roots detects Parkinson's gait changes Harnessing the power of gait as a biomarker is the concept behind Grasshopper Health, a startup launched by Fadi Alsaleem, James and Virginia Blackman Associate Professor of architectural engineering, to commercialize a low-cost medical device that continuously delivers gait data to a patient’s smartphone and a provider’s chart. KLKN and the Omaha World-Herald have published stories on the project. The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Sara Myers, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Iraklis Pipinos and Nebraska Engineering’s Eric Markvicka are also part of the project.
Aug 16 2026	KOLN/KGIN: Husker freshmen settle into dorms as move-in underway Thousands of Husker students are moving into campus residence halls Aug. 16-19. Stories on move-in have appeared in KLKN, KOLN/KGIN and the Lincoln Journal Star.
Aug 16 2026	The Fence Post: Byron business celebrates grand opening thanks to Business Builder Grant Free Day Popcorn in Byron, Nebraska, recently opened a storefront with support from a Business Builder Grant through the Nebraska Regional Food Systems Initiative — part of Rural Prosperity Nebraska. The Fence Post ran an Aug. 16 article on the business.
Aug 15 2026	Lincoln Journal Star: Korff School again offers Community Piano Experience The Community Piano Experience, group piano classes offered through the Glenn Korff School of Music’s piano pedagogy program, will take place again this fall. The Lincoln Journal Star ran an Aug. 15 brief on the classes.
Aug 13 2026	Nebraska Public Media: What will happen to this year's Farm Bill? Brad Lubben, extension associate professor of agricultural economics, was interviewed for an Aug. 13 Nebraska Public Media article on the prospects of this year’s Farm Bill. “In some sense, we left the less-contentious stuff to the ‘Skinny Farm Bill’ (passed last year), but we also sort of left the traditional coalition on the roadside along the way,” he said. “Whether you can in fact get the coalition back together to get a Farm Bill done is an important question.”
Aug 13 2026	Lincoln Journal Star: Nebraska regents approve request for increase in state aid The University of Nebraska Board of Regents has unanimously approved a plan to seek a 4.25% increase in support from state taxpayers in each of the next two years. The request now goes to the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education for review before it is submitted to the Legislature for consideration. Stories on the request have appeared in KOLN/KGIN, the Lincoln Journal Star and Nebraska Examiner.
Aug 12 2026	Flatwater Free Press: Amid renewable energy backlash, some communities are making millions Eric Thompson, K.H. Nelson Professor of economics and director of the university’s Bureau of Business Research, was cited in an Aug. 12 Flatwater Free Press article on some Nebraska communities benefiting from taxes on renewable energy developments. Thompson said landowners can generally get a higher rate for leasing their land for renewables than for agriculture.
Aug 12 2026	KLKN: We Give Blood Drive kicks off Aug. 26 KLKN aired an Aug. 12 story on the 2026 Abbott/Big Ten Conference We Give Blood Drive, which officially kicks off Aug. 26 and runs through Dec. 4. All 18 Big Ten schools are participating in the competition, with a $1 million prize awarded to the winner. Nebraska won the inaugural competition in 2024 and finished second last year.
Aug 12 2026	Nebraska Public Media: Higher ed looks to human-centric approach to integrate AI Santosh Pitla and Adrian Wisnicki, co-directors of the University of Nebraska’s AI Institute, were interviewed for an Aug. 12 Nebraska Public Media story on how higher education is integrating artificial intelligence. “In a classroom, if students are using just AI and not using their critical thinking skills, that’s a big problem,” Pitla said. “We are having a lot of discussions around that, especially from how to responsibly and ethically use AI in a classroom.”
Aug 12 2026	Lincoln Journal Star: UNL to welcome back thousands of students beginning Aug. 16 The Lincoln Journal Star published an Aug. 12 article on the university’s move-in days Aug. 16-19. Matt Nelson, director of residence life, was quoted in the article.
Aug 12 2026	KLIN: El Niño could bring warmer, wetter and icier winter Ken Dewey, professor emeritus of applied climatology, was interviewed for an Aug. 12 KLIN story on what Nebraskans can expect with the developing El Niño climate pattern. He said he expects the warmer pattern to be interrupted by shorter Arctic outbreaks. “So, warmer, wetter, maybe some rain in the middle of winter, and some snows that’ll be slushy and can freeze with an Arctic outbreak as the cold air plunges down here for a couple days, and then the warm air takes over again,” he said.