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08/27/2010
Cornhusker Marching Band roster announced
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 288-member Cornhusker Marching Band will make its 2010 debut Sept. 4 at Memorial Stadium with pre-game and halftime performances at Nebraska's football season opener against Western Kentucky. This year's band inc…
08/30/2010
Memorial Stadium policies announced for 2010 season
With 18,000 new chairback seats available for rental in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Memorial Stadium in 2010, outside chairback seats will not be permitted at Cornhusker home football games. The reason, said Butch Hug, associate athletic di…
08/31/2010
State Museum botanical collection database reaches 100,000 specimens
The University of Nebraska State Museum's historic collection of plant specimens reached a milestone recently. On July 15, staff of the Bessey Herbarium entered data about the 100,000th plant specimen into its computerized database system. The speci…
08/31/2010
Journal features Texas folk songs, WWII in Saskatoon, farm women
In the summer issue of Great Plains Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, researchers wrote about Texas folk songs, World War II patriotism in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a…
09/1/2010
'Weapons throughout Time' exhibit ends Sept. 19 at NU State Museum
Time is running out to see the University of Nebraska State Museum's "Weapons Throughout Time," an exhibit that explores weapons spanning more than 9,000 years of history. The exhibit, shown in the Cooper Gallery on the third floor of Morrill Hall, i…
09/2/2010
Study: Gen-Xers only half as likely than Boomers to 'lose their religion'
Generation X, the set of Americans who came of age in the late 1980s and early 1990s, is often branded as a rules-rejecting, authority-questioning group. But when it comes to religion, new research has revealed that Gen-Xers (born between 1961 and 1…
09/2/2010
'Go Green for Big Red,' volunteers sought for recycling for Husker games
For the second year, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Landscape Services will partner with Recycling Enterprises to encourage recycling on Husker football game days. The effort will focus on parking lots and walkways on property around Memorial Stadium…
09/3/2010
UNL fall enrollment up again, this time 2.1 percent
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's fall 2010 estimated enrollment reached a 15-year high of 24,610, including an increase of 113 first-time freshmen over fall 2009. The census estimates were reported today to the University of Nebraska Board of Reg…
09/8/2010
UNL selected for DOE home energy efficiency research partnership
University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers and architects are partnering with University of Florida researchers, home builders and remodelers, and other businesses on research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to develop and improve technologies …
09/10/2010
Applications sought for Nebraska Young Artist Awards; due Dec. 10
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln seeks applications for the 14th-annual Nebraska Young Artist Awards. The awards recognize 11th-grade students from Nebraska who are gifted and talented in the …
09/10/2010
UNL to offer faculty voluntary separation incentives at age 62
Some University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty will be eligible to take early retirement under a pilot project described Sept. 10 to the University of Nebraska Board of Regents. The Voluntary Separation Incentive Program will offer one-year salary buyou…
09/13/2010
Study: Teasing about weight can have big effects on pre-teens
Schoolyard taunts of any type can potentially damage a child's sense of self-confidence. But a new study suggests that a particular kind of teasing -- about weight -- can have distinctive and significant effects on how pre-teens perceive their bodies…
09/14/2010
$3.8 million contract will fund biological process for HIV microbicide
With $3.8 million in new funding from the Mintaka Foundation of Medical Research supported by the Wellcome Trust, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Biological Process Development Facility is developing a process to manufacture a stable and affordabl…
09/14/2010
Public Policy Center to facilitate Republican River task force
The University of Nebraska Public Policy Center will facilitate a task force appointed to address water sustainability of the Republican River Basin. The center will assist the 26-member Republican River Basin Water Sustainability Task Force in meeti…
09/15/2010
UNL Libraries receives donated collection of famed music educator
Archives and Special Collections at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries has received the collection of publications, personal correspondence, photographs and videotapes of Mary Helen Bush Richards, Music Educator Hall of Fame member and UNL …

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