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Jul 1 2025	KETV: UNL's bell tower goes silent for repairs A major renovation is underway on Mueller Tower, the 84-foot limestone landmark that has stood at the heart of the university’s City Campus since 1949. The project aims to preserve the bell tower’s structural integrity and historic character while improving its durability for future generations of Huskers. Articles on the project have appeared in KETV, KLIN, the Lincoln Journal Star and Rural Radio Network.
Jul 1 2025	KHGI: UNL research informs new agricultural policies The university’s Bureau of Sociological Research is playing a key role in shaping agricultural policy and research in the state, KHGI and Nebraska Ag Connection have reported. With decades of survey expertise, the bureau gathers valuable data from Nebraska producers to guide agricultural practices, state efforts and national policy decisions.
Jun 30 2025	Iowa Public Radio: College students hack into tractors to test ag cybersecurity Santosh Pitla, professor and associate head for research and innovation in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, was interviewed for a June 30 Iowa Public Radio story on the fourth annual CyberTractor Challenge, held recently at Iowa State University. A large-scale cyberattack during the narrow windows for planting and harvesting could hurt on-farm incomes and state economies that rely heavily on agriculture, he said. Kansas Public Radio and KCUR have picked up the story.
Jun 30 2025	Nebraska Farmer: LEAD program inspires return to family farm Rachel Ibach, an academic adviser in the Department of Biological Systems Engineering, wrote a June 30 guest column for Nebraska Farmer on how her experience in the Nebraska LEAD Program inspired her to return to her family farm near Sumner.
Jun 27 2025	Nebraska Examiner: Federal support for university research is success story for U.S. Derek McLean, dean and director of the Agricultural Research Division, wrote a June 27 guest column for Nebraska Examiner calling federal support for university research a success story for the United States. “The research partnership between universities and the federal government has been vital for American competitiveness and prosperity,” he wrote. “The reduction of federal funding for research is not just a problem for our university. It is a problem for America’s status as a global leader in innovation.”
Jun 26 2025	The Daily Galaxy: Self-building tech set to make Mars habitats a reality Researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Texas A&M University have engineered a self-sustaining system that uses cyanobacteria and fungi to create strong building materials using only Mars-like soil, air, light and water. The team includes Huskers Nisha Rokaya, doctoral student in plant pathology; Erin Carr, postdoctoral research associate in chemical and biomolecular engineering; and Richard A. Wilson, Charles Bessey Professor of plant pathology. Articles on the research have appeared in 3D Printing Industry, The Daily Galaxy, The Debrief, Study Finds and Universe Today.
Jun 26 2025	Silicon Prairie News: NU system ranks in top 100 globally in U.S. utility patents The University of Nebraska system landed among the top 100 universities with the most U.S. utility patents granted in the 2024 calendar year, Silicon Prairie News reported June 26. NU’s 47 patents ranked No. 49 in the U.S. and No. 82 in the world, according to the list compiled by the National Academy of Inventors.
Jun 26 2025	'The Daily' podcast: Breaking down the massive cuts to science funding Katherine Bogen, a doctoral candidate in psychology at Nebraska, was featured in the June 26 episode of The New York Times podcast "The Daily." She had been studying post-traumatic stress, alcohol use and intimate partner violence against bisexual women until her National Institutes of Health grant was terminated in March.
Jun 26 2025	Food Technology and Manufacturing: Plant scientists create color for farmed salmon Scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina sativa to produce high levels of astaxanthin — a valuable red antioxidant used to color farmed salmon and shrimp — using plant-derived genes rather than bacterial pathways. The team of biotechnologists from the United States and United Kingdom was led by Edgar Cahoon, George W. Holmes University Professor of biochemistry and director of the Center for Plant Science Innovation at Nebraska. Food Technology and Manufacturing published a June 26 article on the research.
Jun 25 2025	Norfolk Daily News: Northeast Nebraska students included on UNL Deans' List More than 6,700 Husker students have been named to the Deans’ List for the spring semester of the 2024-25 academic year. The Grant Tribune-Sentinel, Imperial Republican, Nebraska City News-Press, Norfolk Daily News, Syracuse Journal-Democrat, York News-Times have run articles on honorees from their areas.
Jun 24 2025	KOLN/KGIN: All Things Nebraska uses data to help guide community growth KOLN/KGIN aired a June 24 story on the university’s All Things Nebraska website, which contains reliable, up-to-date data about communities across the state. Developed in collaboration with the Center for Applied Research and Engagement Systems at the University of Missouri, the mapping tool includes more than 30,000 data layers relevant to Nebraska, its communities and counties. Katie Larson, associate Extension educator with Nebraska Extension, was interviewed for the story.
Jun 24 2025	Lexington Clipper-Herald: Six students named to UNL Deans' Commendation List The Lexington Clipper-Herald ran a June 24 article on six area students being named to the Deans’ Commendation List at Nebraska for the spring 2025 semester. The Commendation List recognizes students in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, College of Arts and Sciences and/or College of Journalism and Mass Communications who met or exceeded a specified grade-point average and carried six to 11 graded semester hours.