From compiling health-care information to giving football coaches a tool to analyze video, from providing a jobs bank for western Nebraska employers to helping brides-to-be plan that special day -- those are some of the ways Nebraskans are tapping into broadband Internet access.
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David Pearson, senior service hydrologist at the National Weather Service in Omaha, will present "The Missouri River Flood of 2011: Its Causes and Impacts," at 7 p.m., Nov. 8, in the Hardin Hall auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public. Continue reading…
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Amy Peterson, Extension educator based in Osceola, in September began a one-year term as president of the 2,000+ member National Extension Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. She also has served as the organization's Central Region director and was vice president of awards and recognition.
Two UNL professors recently presented about their Food and Agriculture Research Experience for Teachers program during a National C-FAR “Lunch~N~Learn” Hill Seminar. Continue reading…
W.C. "Rusty" Riese, a Houston-based geoscientist and petroleum industry expert, will discuss the risks of consuming fossil fuels in a 7 p.m., Nov. 9 lecture in Hardin Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. Continue reading…
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Forty years of food surpluses have given way to rising food prices and scarcity. How that happened, what it means, and a look to the future are topics Stephen Baenziger will discuss in the 4 p.m., Nov. 10 Heuermann Lecture. "Setting the Stage: Why Agriculture," is in the East Union. Continue reading…
Kathleen Prochaska-Cue, a family economist with UNL Extension, will review the tools needed to keep relationships financially and emotionally rewarding in a free "Couples and Money" workshop, 7 p.m., Nov. 7 in the East Union. The session is part of Money Smart Week. Desserts will be served. Continue reading…
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