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Aug 18 2026	KOLN/KGIN: Cornhusker Marching Band prepares for fall season KOLN/KGIN aired an Aug. 18 story on the Cornhusker Marching Band’s preseason camp. Tony Falcone, associate director of bands and director of the marching band, and Hudson Carrico, a junior broadcasting and journalism major and drum major, were interviewed for the story.
Aug 18 2026	KOLN/KGIN: Nebraska tests homelessness prevention program The university’s Center on Children, Families and the Law is joining Right at Home, a national initiative to stop homelessness before it starts. As one of 10 partner communities, the center will work with Destination: Home and a coalition of national organizations to build a Nebraska homelessness prevention system modeled on Destination: Home’s nationally recognized approach. KOLN/KGIN and KLKN published Aug. 18 stories on the partnership.
Aug 18 2026	KOLN/KGIN: Major projects bring changes as Huskers return for fall semester KOLN/KGIN and KLKN ran Aug. 18 stories on construction projects at the university. Wendy Johnson, assistant vice president for facilities planning and capital programs, was quoted in the stories.
Aug 17 2026	Flatwater Free Press: Nebraska's corn detasseling tradition is quietly fading Shannon Sand, associate extension educator, was interviewed for an Aug. 17 Flatwater Free Press article on fewer young Nebraskans detasseling corn as more migrant workers pick up the work. Sand, who researches ag labor in the state, said there is a shrinking pool of young Nebraskans willing to work farm jobs. “You have a lot of people that just do not want to do hard labor, which is fair,” she said. “But the labor still has to be done.”
Aug 17 2026	Stateline: Brank discusses parental responsibility laws Eve Brank, Aaron Douglas Professor of psychology, was interviewed for an Aug. 17 Stateline article on parental responsibility laws. Research by Brank and colleagues has found that legal professionals generally do not view the laws as effective, which could help explain why the laws are common but rarely enforced. She said there is also potential for the laws to be disproportionately applied to single-parent households, low-income families and families of color.
Aug 17 2026	KETV: Looking back on what led Nebraska to join Big Ten KETV aired an Aug. 17 story on the 16th anniversary of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln joining the Big Ten Conference. Then-Chancellor Harvey Perlman was featured in the story.
Aug 17 2026	Omaha World-Herald: New wearable with Nebraska roots detects Parkinson's gait changes Harnessing the power of gait as a biomarker is the concept behind Grasshopper Health, a startup launched by Fadi Alsaleem, James and Virginia Blackman Associate Professor of architectural engineering, to commercialize a low-cost medical device that continuously delivers gait data to a patient’s smartphone and a provider’s chart. KLKN and the Omaha World-Herald have published stories on the project. The University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Sara Myers, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Iraklis Pipinos and Nebraska Engineering’s Eric Markvicka are also part of the project.
Aug 16 2026	KOLN/KGIN: Husker freshmen settle into dorms as move-in underway Thousands of Husker students are moving into campus residence halls Aug. 16-19. Stories on move-in have appeared in KLKN, KOLN/KGIN and the Lincoln Journal Star.
Aug 16 2026	Omaha World-Herald: It's not too early to think about fall garden work Sarah Browning, a district forester with PlantNebraska, was interviewed for an Aug. 16 lawn-and-garden column in the Omaha World-Herald on fall landscape work. Browning said that with early frosts quickly approaching, it’s important to gear up for late-summer and fall work so everything on one’s list can be accomplished. She offered a rundown of common landscape projects listed in order of attack.
Aug 16 2026	The Fence Post: Byron business celebrates grand opening thanks to Business Builder Grant Free Day Popcorn in Byron, Nebraska, recently opened a storefront with support from a Business Builder Grant through the Nebraska Regional Food Systems Initiative — part of Rural Prosperity Nebraska. The Fence Post ran an Aug. 16 article on the business.
Aug 15 2026	Lincoln Journal Star: Korff School again offers Community Piano Experience The Community Piano Experience, group piano classes offered through the Glenn Korff School of Music’s piano pedagogy program, will take place again this fall. The Lincoln Journal Star ran an Aug. 15 brief on the classes.
Aug 13 2026	Nebraska Public Media: What will happen to this year's Farm Bill? Brad Lubben, extension associate professor of agricultural economics, was interviewed for an Aug. 13 Nebraska Public Media article on the prospects of this year’s Farm Bill. “In some sense, we left the less-contentious stuff to the ‘Skinny Farm Bill’ (passed last year), but we also sort of left the traditional coalition on the roadside along the way,” he said. “Whether you can in fact get the coalition back together to get a Farm Bill done is an important question.”