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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
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| 02/5/2014 |
Report reveals sharp drop in statewide groundwater levelsThe recently released 2013 Nebraska Statewide Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report reveals significant groundwater level declines throughout Nebraska. “Almost the entire state – with the exception of a small area in the Sandhills – sa… |
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| 02/5/2014 |
Half-priced tickets available through Lied Center's one-day sale Feb. 5Nebraska’s Home for the Arts, the Lied Center for Performing Arts, has launched its third annual one-day sale today, Wednesday, Feb. 5. Tickets to multiple world class performances during the 2013-14 season are available at 50 percen… |
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| 02/6/2014 |
UNL professor's new novel set amid the magic of 1898 Omaha fairIn Timothy Schaffert's latest novel, dancers waltz in mid-air. A spooky automaton answers burning questions. A medicine man brews up potions to cure broken hearts. A ventriloquist plays straight man to a wise-cracking dummy. … |
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| 02/7/2014 |
African Poetry Book Fund announces 2014 Sillerman Prize winnerThe African Poetry Book Fund and Prairie Schooner have announced that Ladan Osman's collection, "The Kitchen Dweller's Testimony," is the winner of the 2014 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets. Osman will receive a $1,000 … |
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| 02/7/2014 |
Leeper Miller earns national teaching awardJenny Leeper Miller, master teacher and assistant director at the Ruth Staples Child Development Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has been selected as a Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children's Tylenol National Child Care Teacher Aw… |
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| 02/11/2014 |
UNL to launch new college integrating fine and performing arts, architectureTwo University of Nebraska-Lincoln colleges will consolidate to build new programs that attract today's students and expand research collaborations, top UNL administrators said. Chancellor Harvey Perlman and… |
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| 02/12/2014 |
Japanese textiles expert Elizabeth Wilson to speak Feb. 20 at UNLElizabeth Wilson, an expert on Japanese textiles and a successful business woman, will speak at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Feb. 20. Wilson will share the history and workings of her unique busines… |
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| 02/13/2014 |
Great Plains Art Museum extends deadline for juried exhibitionThe Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has extended the submission deadline for the "Contemporary Indigeneity: The New Art of the Great Plains" juried exhibition. Applications postmarked or submitted via … |
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| 02/17/2014 |
Worldwide study finds that fertilizer destabilizes grasslandsFertilizer could be too much of a good thing for the world's grasslands, according to study findings to be published online Feb. 16 by the journal Nature. The worldwide study shows that, on average, addition… |
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| 02/18/2014 |
Historypin project provides window on UNL's historical photo collectionsAn online historical archive is helping expand access to and information about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's historical photograph collections. The project, led by Traci Robison, an archives associate… |
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| 02/19/2014 |
John Maag receives Swanson Award for teaching excellencePassion for teaching and keeping students actively engaged in the learning process is John Maag's trademark as a professor of speech language pathology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Education and Human Sciences. … |
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| 02/19/2014 |
Fall semester Deans' List/Honor Roll named at UNLThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced its Deans' List/Honor Roll for the fall semester of the 2013-14 academic year. Qualification for the Dean's List varies among the eight undergraduate colleges… |
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| 02/21/2014 |
Up in December, down in January; signs still positive for state's economyFollowing strong gains in December, Nebraska's Leading Economic Indicator declined in January, continuing the up-and-down trend seen in recent months. Though the indicator declined by 0.95 percent in January… |
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| 02/24/2014 |
Omaha Westside's Mitchell to receive McAuliffe award from UNLCreativity and inspiration in the classroom has earned Omaha Westside Community Schools fifth-grade teacher Pam Mitchell the Christa McAuliffe Prize for Courage and Excellence in Education. The College of Ed… |
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| 02/21/2014 |
Team develops chemical solution for graphene challengesThere's no question that graphene is a really cool material. It's the thinnest substance ever made, a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal honeycomb pattern. Although it's as stiff as diamond and hundreds of times stronger th… |
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