The High Plains Regional Climate Center quietly turned 30 this year, while it continued to collect and make available a host of climate data, organized and taught numerous climate training workshops and answered hundreds of consumer calls. Continue reading…
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Destini Petitt and Citlally Jimenez, both School of Natural Resources graduate students, recently earned Fall 2017 SNR Graduate Student Association travel grants. They both will attend the National Association of Research in College Teaching Conference set for March 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia. Continue reading…
Thirteen University of Nebraska-Lincoln undergraduate students, include SNR's Carlee Koehler, a senior fish and wildlife and journalism major, have earned Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships. The awards will allow the students to study abroad in during the spring 2018 semester. Continue reading…
Steven Thomas, river and stream ecologist with SNR, will present the final lecture in the Fall Seminar Series at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 29, in Hardin Hall Auditorium. He will present "The Consequences of Local Adaptation in Stream Ecosystems: Ecological Roles and Species Distributions." Continue reading…
Following Black Friday and Cyber Monday is Giving Tuesday, and this year, just like every year for the past decade or more, the School of Natural Resources is collecting winter gear and/or gift cards for the students at Clinton Elementary. Consider a donation today to the cause. Continue reading…
Though there are more than 230 accredited zoos and aquariums across the nation, only about a quarter offer nutrition programs. Former SNR student Kelly Kappen is among those few doing nutrition research at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium. Continue reading…
"From the Ashes" goes beyond the rhetoric of the "war on coal" to capture Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the Trump Administration. Continue reading…
After wildfires ravaged hundreds of thousands of acres of grasslands and forest in northwestern Nebraska in 2012, some feared that the national landmark Sandhills ecoregion had been irreparably damaged. Continue reading…
The Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and its many partners have worked to deliver tangible outcomes and impacts, both locally and globally, to help ensure a more water and food secure world. DWFI's fiscal year 2017 annual report is now available. Continue reading…