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UNL News Releases

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12/23/2009
UNL's 90.3 KRNU launches free 'Extra Vaganza' coupon book
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's campus radio station, 90.3 KRNU, has created a new marketing tool to generate funds and promote its new underwriting program. The free 'Extra Vaganza' booklet contains coupons to retailers participating as new KRN…
01/8/2010
College of Law announces tax law scholarship recipients
The University of Nebraska College of Law has announced two major scholarship awards for the 2009-10 academic year. Grant Maynard of Bellevue is the 2009-10 recipient of the Philip Johnson-Great Plains Federal Tax Institute Scholarship and Shawn Bea…
01/8/2010
UNL public relations student group wins top honors
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America won top honors with an Award of Excellence at the Nebraska Public Relations Society of America Paper Anvil Awards last month. The awards are awarded annual…
01/8/2010
UNL wins $6.9 million grant to help fund nanoscience facility
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received $6.9 million of federal stimulus funding from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help fund construction of a new nanoscience research facility. The grant will cover half the $13.8 mi…
01/11/2010
UNL Actuarial Science Program named a Center of Actuarial Excellence
The Society of Actuaries has recognized the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Actuarial Science Program as one of its first Centers of Actuarial Excellence. The society has renewed the emphasis on strengthening the role of academics within the actuaria…
01/15/2010
Broadcast students place in Hearst national competition
The William Randolph Hearst Foundation has awarded Hearst Journalism Awards in the radio category to two University of Nebraska-Lincoln broadcast journalism seniors. Brandi Kruse of Glyndon, Minn., earned sixth place and Kelli Sajevic of Liberty, Mo.…
01/19/2010
Forecasters: Nebraska's economy set for sustained growth
The Nebraska Business Forecast Council is providing an optimistic economic outlook for Nebraska over the next two years, and estimates broad-based growth in the state's economy during that span. The council's first economic projection in the new dec…
01/22/2010
International feminist organization based at UNL earns $1.5 M grant
The International Association for Feminist Economics located at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will receive a $1.5 million grant over the next three years from the Swedish International Development Agency to promote feminist economic research and…
01/22/2010
Campbell inducted into Flag Football National Championships Hall of Fame
Stan Campbell, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and director of campus recreation at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was inducted into the American Collegiate Intramural Sports Flag Football National Championships Hall of Fame during …
01/25/2010
Report: Crane-watching in central Nebraska worth at least $10.33 million
The Sandhill cranes, long considered one of the state's treasures, have an annual impact of at least $10.33 million on central Nebraska's economy, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln report estimates. The report, published in the fall by UNL's Bureau o…
01/25/2010
UNL College of Journalism offers 'One Day University' workshops
To help harried professionals refresh workplace skills, the College of Journalism and Mass Communications is offering a series of educational seminars on communication challenges. The "One Day University: Seminars for Busy People" will be taught eac…
01/28/2010
UNL physicist Centurion earns DOE early career research grant
It's well known that sunlight fuels plants. But exactly how plants convert photons of light into energy is a mystery. The first molecular step in conversion takes less than one-trillionth of a second, far too fast for scientists to see the process. …
01/29/2010
'Designer Showcase Nebraska' at Hillestad Gallery through Feb. 19
The "Designer Showcase Nebraska" exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery through Feb. 19 features three talented artist/designers who live and work in Nebraska and have chosen fiber as their medium of expr…
02/2/2010
PNAS paper cites discovery of small RNA 'quality-control' mechanism
When a person is exposed to a cold virus, whether he or she actually becomes ill may come down to how well short snippets of RNA in the person's defense response system interact with the RNA-based cold virus. If the small RNA (ribonucleic acid) mat…
02/5/2010
Students explain the stock market in innovative writing competition
Students from Papillion, Arlington and Norris were the statewide winners is the fall competition of InvestWrite, an innovative writing competition for students in Grades 4 through 12. Sponsored in Nebraska by the Nebraska Council on Economic Educat…

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