From vice chancellor -- Rural conference seminal event
We are thrilled to be hosting over 460 participants for our first national conference focusing on Rural Futures — Connecting Innovation to unfold May 8-10 at the Cornhusker Hotel in Lincoln.
USDA to fund new ag policy research
All consumers are not the same. Neither are all agricultural producers. Yet ag policy analysis typically has assumed they are, which can result in ineffective or inefficient policies. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is leading a new research effort to change that approach.
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Keasling is Heuermann lecturer Tuesday
“The Bold Future of Alternative Energy” is the topic when native Nebraskan Jay Keasling, a pioneer in synthetic biology, concludes the first year of the new Heuermann Lecture series in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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UNL maps Panhandle aquifer for uranium
It fuels both bombs and power plants, but uranium probably doesn't come to mind to many people when they think about Nebraska. Still, it's here and a University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is mapping the aquifers and rock formations that may contain it. Continue reading…
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New IANR magazine available online
Algae as fuel, entrepreneurship in Nebraska, international collaborations on water research – these and many more are topics in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources’ new Growing a Healthy Future magazine.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/33kNebraska Master Naturalist training open
Interviews are now being scheduled for the Summer 2012 Nebraska Master Naturalist Certification Trainings, June 17-23 at the Nature Conservancy Niobrara Valley Preserve, or July 22- 28 at Omaha and Lincoln area nature centers. Continue reading…
North Central Entomology meetings in Lincoln
The UNL Entomology Department will host the 2012 North Central Branch meeting of the Entomological Society of America June 3-6 in Lincoln at the Embassy Suites Hotel, 1040 P St. Continue reading…
More details at: http://www.entsoc.org/northcentral/2012-north-central-branch-annual-meeting
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