Notice: This site is now an archive

As of March 1, 2016 news releases are integrated into UNL Today as a section of curated stories that include subject/expert contact info and high-resolution photography assets.

UNL News Releases

4096 through 4110 out of 4957
release date headline event date
05/24/2012
Northern Cheyenne ag, Nebraska suffrage, beekeeping in GP Quarterly
In the spring 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 the construction of the Northern Cheyenne Reservatio…
05/30/2012
Ameritas gift supports UNL actuarial science education
Recognized as being among the best in the nation, the actuarial science program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration has received a $500,000 gift from Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. of Lincoln to …
06/5/2012
UNL study scrutinizes worker dignity at Foxconn, Apple plants
In the global controversy that followed a rash of worker suicides at Foxconn Technology Group -- the Taiwanese company whose huge Chinese factories assemble the world's most popular consumer electronics -- the firm and corporate partner…
06/5/2012
Quilt Museum offers free admission in summer to military personnel
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the launch of Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of D…
06/4/2012
UNL students take 1st place in National Student Advertising Competition
Advertising students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications took first place in the 2012 National Student Advertising Competition in Austin, Texas, June 2-5. On…
06/8/2012
Fall entering class at UNL's Raikes School announced
Thirty high-achieving 2012 high school graduates have been accepted into the highly competitive Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for fall 2012. …
06/15/2012
Nebraska economic indicator falls in May, suggests very slow growth in fall
The Leading Economic Indicator for Nebraska dropped by 0.52 percent in May, the second decline in the last three months. The new data, plus indicator reports gathered over the same period, suggest that the Nebraska economy will gro…
06/18/2012
Spring semester Deans' List/Honor Roll named
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced the students named to the Deans' List/Honor Roll for the spring semester of the 2011-12 academic year. Qualification for the Deans' List varies among the eigh…
06/22/2012
UNL seeks proposals for 18th and R parking, living, shopping project
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking proposals for a mixed-use development to enhance a UNL parking structure planned for a site at 18th and R streets. The request seeks proposals that include residential and possible reta…
06/25/2012
Knight Foundation grant to help UNL study use of drones in news gathering
A project to explore using drones to do reporting got a boost this month when the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's drone journalism lab received a prototype grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. …
06/26/2012
Professor returns to U.S.; says detention caused by miscommunication
Weixing Li returned to the United States June 23, some 11 days after he had expected to touch down in Alaska to meet his vacationing wife and child. He didn't miss a flight; instead, he spent two weeks detained by authorities in Ch…
06/27/2012
Study: Kids with behavior issues, disabilities are bullied more, bully others more
Students receiving special-education services for behavioral disorders and those with more obvious disabilities are more likely to be bullied than their general-education counterparts -- and are also more likely to bully other stud…
07/2/2012
Lincoln East's Andrea Kabourek win Distinguished Educator Award
Andrea Kabourek, an English and journalism teacher at Lincoln East High School, has been awarded the 2012 Freda Drath Battey Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Scienc…
07/4/2012
UNL physics team collaborates in hunt for so-called 'God Particle'
Physicists at CERN laboratory in Switzerland announced today that they have observed a new particle whose characteristics match the long-theorized Higgs boson particle, the central part of a hypothesis that could peel away the very fabric of the univ…
07/5/2012
U.S. Drought Monitor shows record-breaking expanse of drought
More of the United States is in moderate drought or worse than at any other time in the 12-year history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, officials from the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln said t…

Questions

For questions regarding these releases, contact:
Sean Hagewood
Phone: (402) 472-8514
Fax: (402) 472-7825

The UNL Office of University Communications maintains this database of news releases for media professionals. If there are additional functions that would be of interest to you, please email us.

RSS