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May 18 2025	Lincoln Journal Star: Trump administration cancels grants to recruit engineering students from rural Nebraska The Lincoln Journal Star published a May 18 article on the Nebraska Engineering Inclusive Excellence Center, which aimed to recruit more engineering students from rural Nebraska. The $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation supporting the initiative was abruptly canceled in April.
May 17 2025	Lincoln Journal Star: 'Chili-roll' creators setting up shop in downtown Lincoln The Lincoln Journal Star published a May 17 article on sisters Alexa and Rylie Carter and their business, Rising Rolls Baking Company, with its signature item, a cinnamon roll with chili baked into it. The sisters are both in the university’s Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program.
May 16 2025	KOLN/KGIN: College of Law addressing Nebraska's 'legal deserts' with new center KOLN/KGIN aired a May 16 story on the recently approved Nebraska Children’s Justice and Legal Advocacy Center — a partnership between the College of Law and the Center on Children, Families and the Law. The center aims to equip more Nebraska attorneys — especially in rural areas — to handle cases involving family and children. Michelle Paxton, Schmid Professor for Excellence in Service and director of the Children’s Justice Clinic and Children’s Justice Attorney Education Program, was interviewed for the story.
May 16 2025	KETV: Husker researcher developing long-lasting flu vaccines Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by Husker virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. In a new study, the team describes a vaccine that protects against H1N1 swine flu and can also protect against influenza in humans and birds. Stories on the research have appeared in KETV, KHGI, KNOP, KSNB, Nebraska Examiner, Farms.com, The Microbiologist, National Hog Farmer and several other national media outlets.
May 16 2025	Lincoln Journal Star: Lil' Red and Herbie Husker are graduating The Lincoln Journal Star published a May 16 article on Ben Hastreiter and Brady Moylan, who performed as Lil’ Red and Herbie Husker, respectively, during their college careers. They both earned business administration degrees from the College of Business.
May 16 2025	Flatwater Free Press: NPPD bought land for $5 million — from NPPD executives Anthony Schutz, Schmid Foundation Professor of Agricultural Law, was interviewed for a May 16 Flatwater Free Press article on the Nebraska Public Power District recently buying a piece of rural Lancaster County land for $5 million — about five times its assessed value — from two NPPD executives. Other states place legal limits on the extent that a government body can exceed fair market value while acquiring land, Schutz said, but those limits don’t exist in Nebraska. The only real check on a transaction of this sort in Nebraska is political, he said.
May 15 2025	Newsweek: Ice cream recalled nationwide Byron D. Chaves, associate professor of food science and technology, was interviewed for a May 15 Newsweek article on a voluntary recall of ice cream and frozen yogurt products by Wells Enterprises due to the possible presence of plastic. “Hard plastic … may originate from ingredients like toppings or from utensils such as mixing paddles,” he said. “Such incidents can indicate a breach in supplier controls and good manufacturing practices. In rare cases, packaging materials may be the source.”
May 15 2025	Inside Higher Ed: Group claims 600 students punished for protected speech since 2020 Elizabeth Niehaus, associate professor of educational administration, was interviewed for a May 15 Inside Higher Ed article on the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression’s new Students Under Fire report. Niehaus said she disagrees with what she considers the report's thesis: that students seeking punishment for their peers’ racist — but constitutionally protected — speech in the early 2020s inadvertently laid the groundwork for college and government administrators cracking down more broadly on protected student speech regarding Israel’s war on Gaza.
May 12 2025	Omaha World-Herald: Omaha child care providers feel strain of what some call 'crisis' A 2020 report from the university’s Bureau of Business Research was cited in a May 12 Omaha World-Herald article on what some are calling a child care “crisis” in Nebraska. The report estimated that inadequate access to child care costs Nebraska families, businesses and taxpayers up to $745 million annually in decreased household income, decreased work productivity, employee turnover and reduced tax revenues.
May 12 2025	Nebraska Examiner: Vaccine developed in Nebraska could signal end to annual flu shot Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by Husker virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. In a new study, the team describes a vaccine that protects against H1N1 swine flu and can also protect against influenza in humans and birds. Stories on the research have appeared in KETV, KHGI, KNOP, KSNB, Nebraska Examiner, Farms.com, The Microbiologist, National Hog Farmer and several other national media outlets.
May 12 2025	National Hog Farmer: New vaccine strategy protects against swine, human and bird flu Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by Husker virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. In a new study, the team describes a vaccine that protects against H1N1 swine flu and can also protect against influenza in humans and birds. Stories on the research have appeared in KETV, KHGI, KNOP, KSNB, Nebraska Examiner, Farms.com, The Microbiologist, National Hog Farmer and several other national media outlets.
May 12 2025	The Fence Post: Loeffel Meat Shoppe celebrating National Beef Month with special offer Customers of the university’s Loeffel Meat Shoppe can support the local community with their ground beef purchases in May, which is National Beef Month. As part of the shop’s “buy one, give one” promotion, for every pound of ground beef sold through May 30, the store will donate a pound of ground beef to local organizations that help feed those in need. The Fence Post ran a May 12 article on the promotion.