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UNL News Releases

1516 through 1530 out of 4957
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08/23/2012
Alumni's Football Fridays moving to Nebraska Champions Club
The Nebraska Champions Club, 707 Stadium Drive, is the new home of Football Fridays, a series of events hosted by the Nebraska Alumni Association on Husker home football weekends. The new location offers…
08/31/2012
08/23/2012
Emigrants' livestock; populism; Omaha, Pawnee history in GP Quarterly
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 19th-century emigrants and their concerns for th…
08/21/2012
Education Dept. funds meta-analysis of parent-education involvement
If research studies represent the jigsaw pieces to complex puzzles, meta-analyses assemble them into cohesive pictures that help resolve important questions. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebras…
08/20/2012
UNL partners with Zipcar to offer car sharing on campus
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln today launched a new partnership with Zipcar Inc., to offer a car-sharing program on campus. The convenient transportation option is available at an affordable rate 24 hours a day, seven days a we…
08/17/2012
Nebraska economic indicator improves in July, indicating sustained growth
The Leading Economic Indicator for Nebraska increased by 1.24 percent in July, reversing a decline in May and June of this year. Improvement in the indicator after two months of decline suggests that Nebraska will be able to sustai…
08/17/2012
Nebraska teachers earn national certification in personal finance
The Nebraska Council of Economic Education, a nonprofit entity housed at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's College of Business Administration, rolled out the red carpet for 28 Nebraska secondary and post-secondary teachers at th…
08/16/2012
Scientists create new form of matter that can dent diamonds
What do you get when you take buckyballs, soak them in a particular solvent and crush them under the pressure of more than 300,000 atmospheres? The obvious answer is a bunch of crushed buckyballs. But a team…
08/15/2012
UNL discovery has implications for finding life on Earth, Mars
Moqui marbles, unusual balls of rock that can be found rolling around the southwestern U.S. sandstone regions, were formed roughly 2 million years ago with the help of microorganisms. This discovery by a University of Nebraska-Linc…
08/14/2012
'Evening with David Sedaris' is Oct. 31 at Lied Center
The Lied Center for Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will begin sales of tickets for the Oct. 31 event, "An Evening With David Sedaris," at 11 a.m. on Aug. 14. Sedaris, author of the bes…
10/31/2012
08/14/2012
Mueller Planetarium offers Mars updates with astronomy shows
The successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory -- the rover named "Curiosity" -- last week is already producing images and information from the red planet. Curiosity is the largest vehicle ever landed…
08/10/2012
Degrees granted to 800 at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will grant degrees to some 800 students at commencement exercises Aug. 10 and 11 in separate ceremonies for baccalaureate and postgraduate degrees. The graduates are from…
08/10/2012
Move-in traffic, shut-down lanes Aug. 16-19; classes start Aug. 20
Back-to-campus time at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will again see thousands of students moving in to their residence halls in the span of a few days prior to the start of fall semester classes on Aug. 20. …
08/9/2012
Big Red Welcome events at UNL Aug. 17-24
As many as 15,000 students will participate in Big Red Welcome events Aug. 17-24 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The week of events is a celebration of the beginning of fall classes, a welcome convocation, with concerts, ral…
08/17/2012
08/9/2012
$3.5 million grant to help special-needs teens avoid being 'lost in the system'
Teenage kids "kind of get lost in the system." They're almost adults, and not really needing to be protected like babies or young children -- or so it may seem. Special education researcher Alexandra Trout o…
08/8/2012
Single ticket sales for Lied Center's 2012-13 season begin Aug. 14
The Lied Center for Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will begin sales of single tickets for the 2012-13 season performances at 11 a.m. on Aug. 14. Tickets may be purchased at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 …

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