The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools recently earned a U.S. Department of Education grant that will allow it to collect, analyze and draw conclusions from several decades’ worth of investigations into how parents influence K-12 student outcomes. Continue reading…
Paul Johnsgard, foundation professor emeritus of biological sciences, has been honored for extraordinary scientific contributions to the conservation, restoration, or preservation of birds and/or their habitats with an award from the American Ornithologists' Union. Continue reading…
UNL's Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory is having its 13th annual open house from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mountain Time Aug. 22. Throughout the day, there will be presentations on various aspects of cattle and natural resource management in the laboratory's Wagonhammer Education Center, near Whitman, Neb. Continue reading…
The Leading Economic Indicator for Nebraska increased by 1.24 percent in July, reversing a decline in May and June of this year. Improvement in the indicator after two months of decline suggests Nebraska will be able to sustain slow economic growth during the winter of late 2012 and early 2013. Continue reading…
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Two new contests aimed at exposing youth to real world experience will be unveiled at the 2012 Nebraska State Fair Aug. 24-Sept. 3 at Fonner Park in Grand Island. Continue reading…