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UNL News Releases: Faculty

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07/29/2005
Anderson named senior economist with President's Council of Economic Advisers
University of Nebraska-Lincoln economist John Anderson has been appointed as a senior economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers in Washington, D.C. He will serve as an adviser with the council, with particular duties related to publ…
09/18/2013
ANDRILL to deploy two drills for 2013-14 season
A team of eight drillers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will begin deployment to Antarctica next month as the Antarctic Geologic Drilling (ANDRILL) Science Management Office fields two hot-water drills to the grounding zone region of the Wes…
06/3/2004
Anna Shavers Attends Meeting to Develop 'Global' Law Curriculum
Anna Williams Shavers, associate professor of law at the University of Nebraska College of Law, joined legal educators representing more than 45 countries and all of the world's legal systems in Hawaii in late May to hammer out a "global curriculum" …
05/22/2009
Anna Shavers to be interim dean of College of Law
Anna Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law Chair, has accepted appointment as interim dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law. The appointment was announced by Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affa…
05/8/2015
April survey: Nebraska businesses report record optimism
Nebraska businesses are very optimistic in their outlook for sales and employment over the next six months, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nearly one in four respon…
05/1/2012
Architecture professor Wilson appointed to 3-year interim dean post
University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor of landscape architecture Kim Wilson has been appointed to a three-year interim dean position at the UNL College of Architecture. Ellen Weissinger, senior vice chance…
02/12/2010
Art department fund-raiser MEDICI 'going green' at March 6 event
To celebrate its 15th year of supporting the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, MEDICI is going green. The annual fund raiser at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery on the UNL city campus will be Saturday, March 6, f…
03/6/2010
09/4/2015
August survey: Nebraska businesses still positive about the economy
Nebraska business leaders remain positive about the outlook for sales and jobs during the next six months, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Among respondents to the Aug…
10/17/2008
Ayers talk at UNL canceled
A speech that was to be part of a student research conference at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Education and Human Science by William Ayers, a distinguished professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Illinois at Ch…
11/15/2008
03/1/2004
Barbara Trout Honored Twice by International Association
Lincoln, Neb., March 1, 2004 -- Barbara Trout, associate professor in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design, received two prestigious awards at the International Textile and Apparel Association annual meetin…
03/27/2012
Bartelt-Hunt wins award to study environmental impact of prion diseases
Deadly prion diseases, such as chronic wasting disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE, survive in soil for years and can remain infectious in the environment. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer's research could…
12/15/2010
Bayer CropScience, UNL to partner on wheat-breeding research
A licensing agreement between NUtech Ventures and Bayer CropScience AG announced today in Kearney focuses on wheat improvement. The agreement makes $2 million available for an endowed professorship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It also inclu…
09/17/2015
Behlen Observatory to host Public Night on Sept. 27
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Physics and Astronomy will host a Public Night at Behlen Observatory from 8 to 11 p.m. Sept. 27. The evening will feature the last eclipse in a series of four lunar eclipses over the past two years, k…
09/27/2015
04/6/2006
Binek seeks to put new face on physics education
Christian Binek would like to make face-to-face interaction between instructor and student a 24/7 proposition for the teaching of complex topics of physics. Binek, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,…
03/26/2015
Biologist finds animal groups share dominance dynamics
The cardinal rules of pecking orders extend well beyond birds and beaks, according to a new study led by a UNL biologist. Roughly 80 years of data have revealed surprising similarities in the social hierarchies of animal groups ranging from primates…

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