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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…
11/28/2007
ANDRILL's 2nd Antarctic drilling season exceeds all expectations
A second season in Antarctica for the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program has exceeded all expectations, according to the co-chief scientists of the program's Southern McMurdo Sound Project. One week ago (Nov. 21), the drilling team passe…
05/9/2014
April survey: Nebraska businesses expect stability, growth
Most Nebraska businesses expect sales and jobs to remain stable or to grow during the next six months, according to the latest survey conducted by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Bureau of Business Research. …
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…
10/6/2010
Archaeological Survey begins excavation project at Hugh Butler Lake
The University of Nebraska State Museum's Nebraska Archaeological Survey began archaeological investigations in September at several prehistoric sites at Hugh Butler Lake in Frontier County. Test excavations are being conducted at five prehistoric …
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…
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…
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…
12/11/2014
Biologist gains insights into genetic evolution of birds
A University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher has contributed to discoveries about bird evolution as part of a new study that sequenced the complete genomes of 45 avian species. Published Dec. 11 in the journa…
07/26/2010
Biologists find that red-blooded vertebrates evolved twice, independently
Nature, in all its glory, is nothing if not thrifty. Through the process of natural selection, it finds new uses for existing features, often resulting in what is known as convergent evolution -- the development of similar biological traits in diffe…
08/10/2009
Biologists identify the molecular basis of high-altitude adaptation in mice
Biologists have long known how adaptive evolution works. New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become fixed in the population. A significant challenge for evo…
09/29/2010
Brassil's CAREER award supports food web work
The complexity of a food web -- the relationships among species and what they eat -- is a key indicator of the health of an ecosystem. Climate change may tip this delicate balance. Chad Brassil, an assistant professor of biological sciences at the …
12/8/2014
Bringing soil-moisture monitoring technology from cornfield to battlefield
A cosmic-ray neutron rover may sound like something from a science-fiction film, but a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is developing the high-tech tool to help the military better understand the harsh environments in whic…
08/20/2007
Buffalo Bill, artists, poets discussed in Great Plains Quarterly
In the summer issue of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Quarterly, researchers wrote about how William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) helped save the American bison from extinction, how Henry Worrall encouraged settlement in Kansas in the 18…
10/27/2006
Bureau survey: Most rural labor forces growing despite population decline
It's no secret that most of Nebraska's rural counties have been losing population in recent decades, but a recent study of census data by Randy Cantrell, extension professor with the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative, shows that more than half …

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