Kate Engel, an experienced leader in university-based research campus operations, has been named executive director of the Nebraska Innovation Campus Development Corporation, effective May 1. NICDC is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation that oversees Nebraska Innovation Campus.

Five years of initial research has given the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center a strong foundation, and its next phase will focus on building partnerships with communities across Nebraska.

The center, founded at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2019, received an $11,597,682 Phase 2 renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence Program, known as COBRE, to continue its work through 2029.

Plant life first emerged on land about 550 million years ago, and an international research team co-led by University of Nebraska¬–Lincoln computational biologist Yanbin Yin has cracked the genomic code of its humble beginnings, which made possible all other terrestrial life on Earth, including humans.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Ashley Votruba is studying why individuals do not seek legal assistance, particularly people of color and members of low-income households, who historically have been underserved by the legal system.

Access to naloxone — a life-saving medication known by its brand name Narcan — continues to grow across Nebraska through the Stop Overdose Nebraska program, but many of the state’s residents still do not know how to acquire or use it.

Project partners of the Fertilizer Recommendation Support Tool have launched the nationwide tool FRST, a decision-aid that provides an unbiased, science-based interpretation of soil test phosphorus and potassium values for crop fertilization.