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UNL News Releases

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04/25/2005
Blank, Grasz to receive Alumni Distinguished Service awards
The Nebraska Alumni Association will recognize two Distinguished Service Award winners May 7 during University of Nebraska-Lincoln commencement exercises. Distinguished Service Awards honor individuals with exemplary records of service to the Alumni …
05/13/2008
Blakelock paintings on view in Sheldon collection galleries
Paintings by Ralph Albert Blakelock will be on view this summer with artworks from the Sheldon Museum of Art's permanent collection in two galleries at the museum, 12th and R streets on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus. In September the…
05/24/2013
Blair's Matthew Stier awarded first Suh Scholarship
Former Nebraska and current Detroit Lions standout Ndamukong Suh, a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, has announced that Matthew Stier of Blair is the first recipient of the scholarship Suh esta…
12/10/2004
Blair's Abby Woodring wins outstanding student design award
University of Nebraska-Lincoln student Abby Woodring, a junior from Blair, won the Outstanding Student Design Award last month at the 2004 International Textiles and Apparel Association annual meeting in Portland, Ore. Woodring won the award for her …
03/10/2009
Black Male Empowerment Summit is March 28 at UNL
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will host the seventh Black Male Empowerment Summit March 28 from noon to 6 p.m. The summit, with the theme, "Me Against the World," will address the issues and challenges associated with being a Black male in Ameri…
03/28/2009
08/1/2008
Black Hills Energy scholarships announced at UNL
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced the award of 25 Black Hills Energy scholarships to Nebraska high school graduates studying at the College of Business Administration or College of Engineering. Black Hills Energy, which provides natural ga…
12/7/2010
BKD gives endowed professorship for UNL business college
Paul A. Shoemaker, professor and director of the School of Accountancy at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration, has been awarded the first BKD, LLP Professorship in Accountancy. "I am honored to be selected as the fi…
03/24/2014
Bitcoin experts to discuss advantages of crypto-currencies March 31
Two authorities on Bitcoin will discuss the economic and societal opportunities of a world that embraces crypto-currencies during a presentation on March 31 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. UNL's Colle…
03/31/2014
01/15/2013
Birmingham bombing survivors to speak at UNL's MLK Day program
Three sisters who survived the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 will be among the keynote speakers at the Chancellor's Program on Jan. 22 during MLK Week, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's observan…
01/22/2013
10/20/2008
Bird brains to be Al Kamil's topic in Oct. 30 Nebraska Lecture at UNL
When someone uses the idiom "bird brain," what comes to mind might not reflect the phrase's true meaning. During the fall Nebraska Lecture Oct. 30, UNL behavioral ecologist Alan C. Kamil will discuss how birds use their cognitive abilities to survive…
10/30/2008
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…
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…
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…
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…
05/15/2008
Biodiversity, blow flies, drought featured in Great Plains Research
Was the first biodiversity inventory completed by the Stephen Long Expedition of 1819-1820 at winter quarters on the Missouri River? Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members say that is the case and present their theory in the spring issue …

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