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UNL News Releases

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07/15/2010
UNL political scientist's work honored with national award
The American Political Science Association has chosen "Who Counts As An American?: The Boundaries of National Identity" by University of Nebraska-Lincoln political scientist Elizabeth Theiss-Morse as the winner of the 2010 Robert E. Lane Award as the…
04/16/2013
UNL political scientist Hibbing named Guggenheim Fellow
John Hibbing, Foundation Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has received a coveted Guggenheim Fellowship. He is among 175 artists, scientists and scholars selected this year by the John Si…
06/16/2009
UNL Police, Memorial Stadium, giving thumbs-up to SMS reporting
For years, tipsters have been an essential part of law enforcers' and event security toolboxes. Now, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police and the NU Athletic Department are taking those tools online with a unique text messaging system for students, …
10/20/2014
UNL Police Department seeks international accreditation
An expansion of duties has led the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police Department to pursue international accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies. The three-year pro…
04/13/2012
UNL poet, author Kwame Dawes awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Kwame Dawes, professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of the Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has received a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. He is among 181 scholars, a…
04/15/2008
UNL plant researchers publish finding on enzyme, drought connection
A better understanding of how plants tolerate drought could result from research by University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists. A paper in this week's Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, with biologist Heriberto Cerutti as the senior au…
09/21/2010
UNL plans annual Homecoming events for Sept. 23-25
"2010: A Husker Odyssey" is the theme for Homecoming week at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A variety of traditional student-led and alumni-welcoming events are planned during the week, culminating with the Husker football game Sept. 25 vs. Sout…
09/23/2010
09/7/2011
UNL plans 9/11 memorial ceremony, service day
September 11, 2001 is a day that changed America, a generation and the world. Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be honoring and remembering the victims of that day's tragic and horrific events as well as the members of the U.S.…
09/11/2011
11/17/2011
UNL planning new suite-style student residence complex at 18th, R streets
Construction of a new, suite-style housing complex at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will begin at the end of this semester. Sited on the block of 18th-19th and R streets immediately east of the new Robert E. Knoll Residential …
01/23/2014
UNL places Sigma Nu fraternity on suspension
University of Nebraska-Lincoln vice chancellor for student affairs Juan N. Franco has announced sanctions imposed on UNL's Delta Eta chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity after an investigation found fire code and alcohol violations at th…
10/12/2012
UNL places Sigma Chi fraternity on indefinite suspension
University of Nebraska-Lincoln vice chancellor for student affairs Juan N. Franco today announced sanctions imposed on Sigma Chi fraternity after an investigation into an off-campus gathering indicated the UNL chapter violated the …
01/13/2012
UNL places second among Big Ten in gameday recycling challenge
After the mountains of waste were measured and reported, the Huskers finished second in the Big Ten Conference in two key categories of the Environmental Protection Agency's Game Day Challenge 2011, with 6,880 pounds of waste recyc…
08/19/2009
UNL pilots new interactive alcohol education program for first-year students
In a unique pilot program, incoming first-year students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will complete an online alcohol education program designed to assess students' attitudes about and use of alcohol, while giving them information about their…
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…
07/8/2010
UNL physicists to bring nanoscience to life in Science Cafe presentation
Over the past few years the new term "nano" has been introduced to our vocabulary. We hear the word in movies. It's mentioned on television and in newspapers and magazines. Futurists say it will pave the way for unimaginable new possibilities. There …
07/22/2010

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