Notice: This site is now an archive

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

2356 through 2370 out of 4957
release date headline event date
08/5/2010
E.N. Thompson Forum series to examine globalization's impact
The E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues, a preeminent speaker series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will take on the theme of "Globalization's Promise" when its 2010-11 season launches Sept. 30. The world, its cultures, political systems and…
09/30/2010
08/5/2010
Morrill Hall's free Thursday nights to end Aug. 26
Time is running out to take advantage of free admission to the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall on Thursday nights this summer. The last days for the public to visit the museum free of charge on Thursdays from 4:30 to 8 p.m. are A…
08/5/2010
08/4/2010
Plains artists juried exhibit, sale, Sept. 3-Nov. 28 at Great Plains Art Museum
American Plains Artists will host its 26th Annual Juried Exhibit and Sale Sept. 3-Nov. 28 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. The event celebrates art of the Plains -- traditional, realistic and representational artworks…
09/3/2010
08/3/2010
UNL Parking announces event parking rates at Innovation Campus
Beginning this fall, parking at Nebraska Innovation Campus becomes subject to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's parking policies, rules and regulations -- bringing for the first time parking fees for sporting events in many areas of the new Nebras…
08/3/2010
'Sunday Scientist' program celebrates beetles, other insects Aug. 15
Did you know that one of every four living things on the planet is a beetle? There are more than 350,000 species of beetles known and many more remain to be discovered and studied. "Beetle Mania" will take over Morrill Hall when the University of Ne…
08/15/2010
08/2/2010
'Parallel Starts: Outside Art Inside Collections' opens at Sheldon Aug. 6
"Parallel Starts: Outsider Art Inside Collections," opening Aug. 6 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art, looks at the challenge of defining outsider art and how its inclusion in museum collections blurs traditional art histor…
08/6/2010
08/2/2010
Sorensen scholarship gives UNL students Scandinavian study opportunities
Holdrege native Marjorie Mattson Sorensen wants to help students have a better understanding of different cultures and has established the Robert C. Sorensen and Marjorie Mattson Sorensen Scandinavian Scholarship for students at the University of Neb…
07/30/2010
Lutenist Kenneth Be to give recital, lecture at Sheldon Museum of Art
The sounds of the Renaissance will fill the Sheldon Museum of Art Aug, 3 when lutenist and speaker Kenneth Be will give a recital and talk in conjunction with the exhibit "Voyage to Italia: Americans in Italy in the 19th Century." Be (pronounced bay…
08/3/2010
07/28/2010
UNL researcher working on sensors to aid irrigation decisions earns award
As the sky clears from a July downpour, you can bet on farmers doing two things. First, checking the rain gauge. Then, mentally calculating how long they can hold off irrigating again. Mehmet Can Vuran, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer engi…
07/28/2010
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist to teach new digital information class
Matt Waite, a 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winner for Politifact.com, will teach this fall in the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Waite will teach a new course, "Developing New Media," designed to teach stu…
07/27/2010
Mueller Planetarium sets schedule through Sept. 30
Mueller Planetarium in the University of Nebraska State Museum's Morrill Hall will change its fulldome schedule beginning Aug. 2. The planetarium's updated schedule for Aug. 2-15 (no shows Mondays): * "Earth, Moon, and Sun" -- Tuesday through Sunda…
08/2/2010
07/27/2010
'Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists' to open July 30 at Sheldon
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art presents "Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists," the first major exhibition devoted to the work of female Pop artists, opening July 30. Pop art, more than any other post-World War II art …
07/30/2010
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…
07/26/2010
Doll quilt exhibit opens Aug. 6 at quilt museum
The International Quilt Study Center and Museum at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will exhibit examples of 19th- and early 20th-century doll quilts and antique doll cribs and cradles during the exhibition "Childhood Treasures: Doll Quilts from th…
08/6/2010
07/26/2010
Prairie Schooner announces 2010 book prize winners
Prairie Schooner, the literary quarterly of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has announced the winners and runners-up for its annual awards for books of short fiction and poetry. The winners were chosen from more than 1,100 submissions from around…

Questions

For questions regarding these releases, contact:
Sean Hagewood
Phone: (402) 472-8514
Fax: (402) 472-7825

The UNL Office of University Communications maintains this database of news releases for media professionals. If there are additional functions that would be of interest to you, please email us.

RSS