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UNL News Releases

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04/24/2013
UNL quilt center receives $8 million gift for expansion, endowment
The thousands of guests from around the world who each year visit Quilt House, home to the International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, now look forward to seeing even more inside thanks to pla…
01/8/2010
UNL public relations student group wins top honors
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America won top honors with an Award of Excellence at the Nebraska Public Relations Society of America Paper Anvil Awards last month. The awards are awarded annual…
12/22/2011
UNL public relations student group wins top honors
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of the Public Relations Student Society earned "Best of Show" and a total of six awards in the 2011 Public Relations Society of America Nebraska Paper Anvil competition. Paper Anvil awards…
08/8/2008
UNL psychology professor receives major public service award
University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychology professor Brian Wilcox received the 2008 Public Service Award from the Society for Prevention Research. Each year, the society awards organizations or individuals who have made significant contributions to th…
03/4/2009
UNL Psychology Department to host 57th Symposium on Motivation
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Psychology will host its 57th annual Symposium on Motivation April 16-17 in the Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St. This year's symposium will address "Ethnicity and Youth Health Disparities." Traditionall…
04/16/2009
11/24/2010
UNL psychologist aims to get to root of 'revictimization' in new study
It's a vicious cycle. Child and adolescent victims of sexual assault are anywhere from two to 11 times more likely to be raped or otherwise sexually assaulted as an adult. While researchers have uncovered helpful information in recent years on the p…
11/14/2014
UNL PRSSA wins Star Chapter Award
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America received the society's Star Chapter Award for the first time in the chapter's history on Nov. 3. The UNL group was recognized as a chapte…
11/17/2007
UNL proposes concept plan for Nebraska Innovation Campus
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln today released concept plans for use of State Fair Park as a model research park called Nebraska Innovation Park. The Nebraska Innovation Park conceptual plan is modeled on successful existing national research univ…
09/22/2008
UNL promotes team approach to acting on threatening behaviors
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is promoting a new partnership to raise awareness about threatening and troubling behavior on campus and empower students, faculty and staff to take action. The Threat Assessment Partnership re-emerged this spring …
10/16/2014
UNL project mines 8 million news pages for poetry
What differentiates a line of text from a news story and a line of text from a poem? Not much, and that's a problem for researchers of American poetry. For nearly a century, United States history was documen…
10/31/2014
UNL project aims to transform STEM teaching
The rapid rate of research advances in science, technology, engineering and mathematics and the increased role of technology in modern societies has underscored the importance of the effective teaching of science, technology, engin…
04/10/2014
UNL program builds strong parent school partnerships
An innovative program to help teachers solve classroom behavior problems also helps parents reduce temper tantrums and disobedience at home, a new study shows. The experimental program -- Conjoint Behavior C…
02/6/2014
UNL professor's new novel set amid the magic of 1898 Omaha fair
In 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. …
12/9/2013
UNL professor's Cather book among Time's Top 10 of 2013
It's been quite a year for Willa Cather -- and, therefore, for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Andrew Jewell. In April, Jewell, an associate professor in the University Libraries, published "The Selecte…
11/7/2013
UNL professor: Twitter may soar post-IPO, but many firms don't
As Twitter embarks upon an initial public offering that is projected to raise some $1.7 billion for the social media company, it walks past a veritable graveyard of dead IPO companies. Theresa Welbourne, dir…

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