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02/17/2009
Expert: Satellite collision shows need for more regulation of 'space debris'
Last week's collision between U.S. and Russian space satellites has prompted questions over who is at fault while highlighting the need for stronger international regulation of space debris, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor and internationa…
02/20/2009
UNL Graduate Studies honors top students, educators
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Graduate Studies presented eight awards for outstanding graduate education at its annual Graduate Studies Awards Reception Feb. 4. Award winners were: Lowe R. and Mavis M. Folsom Distinguished Doctoral Di…
02/20/2009
Cozad's Amy Uehling wins national transfer scholarship
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Amy Uehling of Cozad has been awarded a $1,500 national scholarship from Tau Sigma, the national honor society for transfer students. Uehling earned one of 21 Tau Sigma scholarships in 2009. Scholarships are aw…
02/23/2009
Creighton's documentary explores academic achievement gap
University of Nebraska-Lincoln broadcasting lecturer Trina Creighton is giving African American men a voice that is helping others understand social stigmas attached to higher education. Inspired by her graduate thesis, Creighton has created a docum…
02/24/2009
UNL student selected for Middle East journalism 'boot camp'
University of Nebraska-Lincoln senior news-editorial student Chris Rosacker has been selected to participate in the second annual Middle East Journalism Boot Camp in Egypt and Qatar. The American University in Cairo and Qatar University sponsor the t…
02/26/2009
Fall semester Deans' List/Honor Roll named
The link below is to a list of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln students named to the Deans' List/Honor Roll for the fall semester of the 2008-09 academic year. Qualification for the Deans' List/Honor Roll vary among the eight undergraduate colleg…
02/25/2009
Self-aligning carbon nanotubes could be key to next generation of devices
Scientists and engineers the world over have thought for years that the next generation of smaller, more-efficient electronic and photonic devices could be based on the use of carbon nanotubes, structures 10,000 times thinner than a human hair but wi…
02/25/2009
UNL students selected for News21 Carnegie-Knight fellowship
Three students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications are participating in News21, a national journalism fellowship sponsored by the Carnegie and Knight foundations. The students are Ford Clark of Adams, …
02/27/2009
UNL re-ups Pepsi contract
News from 1997: "The choice of Generation Next is the choice of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, officials announced today." University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials today announced a new agreement with Pepsi as the exclusive soft drink provider …
03/3/2009
Poetry of Place Celebration seeks submissions from Nebraska students
The Nebraska Writing Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks submissions for its 2009 Poetry of Place Celebration. Funded in part by the Nebraska Humanities Council, the purpose of this program is to encourage Nebraska students to write …
03/5/2009
Student's memory honored through endowed scholarship
A scholarship in memory of Brian Smith is keeping his passion for learning alive even though the University of Nebraska-Lincoln student's life was cut short one year ago. A massive heart attack while on a spring break study trip was the only sign of…
03/6/2009
Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts to honor alumni, others
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced recipients of the 2009 Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board alumni awards. The awards will be presented at the college's annual Honors Day Dinne…
03/9/2009
Ashland-Greenwood's Nancy Lueking wins 2009 McAuliffe Prize
Nancy Lueking, a family and consumer sciences teacher in Ashland-Greenwood Public Schools for the past 31 years, has been awarded this year's Christa McAuliffe Prize for Courage and Excellence in Education by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Coll…
03/10/2009
Next generation of geologists receive support at Nebraska
University of Nebraska alumnus Bill Walker enjoys his work as a geologist and always desired to give back in some way to the program that provided him a head start in his field. Now he's found a meaningful way to do just that. He and wife Judy Orend…
03/11/2009
UNL dining halls to begin trayless dining
In an effort to reduce food waste, improve environmental impact and bring down costs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dining halls will convert to a trayless system in late March. The decision to eliminate trays in the five campus dining halls was ma…

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