A geneticist with significant experience in both academia and private industry has been named dean of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Agricultural Research Division and director of the Agricultural Experiment Station. Continue reading…
What started as a dream of helping to feed the world is becoming real for UNL crop researcher Stephen Baenziger, who has provided a major gift to the Nebraska Small Grains Fund. Continue reading…
IANR to 2025 meeting has been rescheduled from today (Aug. 26) to Sept. 16. In the meantime, watch for several announcements key to IANR and its programs. Continue reading…
The 17th annual fall seminar series by the Center for Grassland Studies will include lectures on topics ranging from the proposed TransCanada pipeline to multi-species grazing to challenges for further improvement in buffalograss. The first lecture is Aug. 29. Continue reading…
A UNL/Southeast District ice cream social will be from 1-3 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30, in the Ruth Leverton Hall Building on East Campus in Room 304.
While a new report by the Battelle research organization praises the ... nation's world-beating land-grant university system, it issues a warning as well. The country's position "can be rapidly eroded by foreign competitors if the U.S. fails to appropriately invest." -- Omaha World Herald editorial
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension will be taking science on the road, teaching concepts of biology using rumen-fistulated animals, with its Mobile Beef Labs. Continue reading…
A new free app from IANR teaches young children where their food really comes from. "We Grow It, Do You Know it?" is available from iTunes.
The Block & Bridle Club’s 13th annual Steak Fry is 5:30- 8 p.m. Sept. 1 at the south side of the Animal Sciences building. Tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Continue reading…
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