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May 10 2024	Lincoln Journal Star: UNL center focused on rural drug addiction receives renewal grant The university’s Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, founded in 2019, has received an $11.6 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence Program to continue its work through 2029. KOLN/KGIN and the Lincoln Journal Star have published stories on the grant. The Journal Star article was picked up by the Omaha World-Herald.
May 9 2024	KOLN/KGIN: UNL program using virtual reality to enhance research KOLN/KGIN aired a May 9 story on Edgeworks, a new research and service facility in the university’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. Megan Elliott, founding director of the Carson Center, and Lindsey Clausen, project manager for Edgeworks, were interviewed for the story.
May 9 2024	Lincoln Journal Star: Recent rains have improved drought conditions in Nebraska The U.S. Drought Monitor — produced jointly by the university’s National Drought Mitigation Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture — was cited in a May 9 Lincoln Journal Star article on drought conditions in Nebraska. According to the monitor, moderate drought in the state has declined from 17.4% last week to about 9.6% this week, while severe drought has disappeared completely. The amount of the state experiencing drought is at its lowest level in nearly three years.
May 9 2024	Beef magazine: Herd That! conference to focus on beef cattle reproduction The Nebraska Women in Agriculture program, along with the Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance Program, will host the fourth annual Herd That! Conference June 10 and 11 at the West Central Research, Extension and Education Center in North Platte. Beef magazine ran a May 9 article on the event.
May 8 2024	Time magazine: RFK Jr. says he had a brain parasite; here's how that can happen Scott Gardner, professor of biological sciences and curator of the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, was interviewed for a May 8 Time magazine article on presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suffering cognitive issues more than a decade ago, possibly from a parasite in his brain. Most often, people contract such an infection not directly from eating pork, but through exposure to fecal contamination, Gardner said. Vanity Fair picked up the article. Gardner was first interviewed by The New York Times and also appeared on CNN’s “OutFront” with Erin Burnett.
May 8 2024	Lincoln Journal Star: Lied Center announces lineup for 35th anniversary season The Lied Center for Performing Arts announced the remainder of its 2024-25 season May 8. Highlights include the musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” Step Afrika!, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, a Johnny Carson birthday celebration, an “Encanto” sing-along, Parsons Dance and Itzhak Perlman. Stories on the announcement have appeared in The Grand Island Independent, KLKN, KOLN/KGIN, Lincoln Journal Star, York News-Times and Broadway World.
May 8 2024	The New York Times: The constant work to keep a family connected has a name Dawn O. Braithwaite, Willa Cather Professor of Communications Studies Emerita, was interviewed for a May 8 New York Times article on “kinkeeping,” or the work of keeping a family connected. She said that kinkeepers often find themselves “stuck in the middle” of complicated family dynamics or playing the role of gatekeepers of important family information — which can come with power, but also stress. (This article requires a subscription.)
May 7 2024	KOLN/KGIN: UNL engineers create patch aiming to detect cancer > KOLN/KGIN aired a May 7 story on a wearable “electronic nose” being developed by Eric Markvicka, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and colleagues. The device can detect chemicals excreted through the skin that are useful markers for diseases such as cancer. Markvicka and Patrick McManigal, a doctoral student in computer science, were interviewed for the story, which was picked up by WOWT.
May 7 2024	KOLN/KGIN: Nebraska researchers receive grant to continue studying rural drug use The university’s Rural Drug Addiction Research Center, founded in 2019, has received an $11.6 million renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence Program to continue its work through 2029. KOLN/KGIN and the Lincoln Journal Star have published stories on the grant. The Journal Star article was picked up by the Omaha World-Herald.
May 7 2024	The Baltimore Sun: Advocates, historians urge rethinking Key Bridge name William G. Thomas III, professor of history, Angle Chair in the Humanities, and associate dean for research and graduate education in the College of Arts and Sciences, was cited in a May 7 Baltimore Sun article on some people calling for the Francis Scott Key Bridge to be renamed. Key represented enslaved families in some freedom suits, but later made public comments that disparaged Black freedom and suggested he regretted his role in those lawsuits, Thomas said. Yahoo! News picked up the article.
May 7 2024	Nebraska Examiner: Weaver hopes to harness populist anger in challenge to Ricketts Dona-Gene Barton, associate professor of political science, was interviewed for a May 6 Nebraska Examiner article on the Republican primary between U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts and challenger John Glen Weaver. Barton said 95% of Senate incumbents win re-election. Beating them is “incredibly difficult,” she said, even if they were appointed or won a special election to fill a vacancy.
May 7 2024	KOLN/KGIN: UNL researchers aim to expand study into canine companions Jeffrey Stevens, Susan J. Rosowski Professor of psychology and founding director of Nebraska’s Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab, now co-directs a worldwide project that aims to expand and improve the study of human’s best friend. KOLN/KGIN aired a May 7 story on the ManyDogs project. Stevens and Anwyn Gatesy-Davis, a doctoral student in psychology who works in the lab, were interviewed for the story.