The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center on Children, Families and the Law named Dr. Keith Cruise as its director. Cruise will also hold a faculty position as a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Longtime Nebraska rancher Homer, Buell’s experience is informing a new UNL research initiative focused on grazing systems and ranch decision-making. As part of the university’s $5 million Advancing Development of Assessments, Practices and Tools project, anthropologist Effie Athanassopoulos and rural sociologist Gwendŵr Meredith are interviewing multigenerational ranch families across Nebraska about stewardship, adaptation and grazing practices.

A newly discovered black fungus that thrives in some of Earth’s harshest environments is helping engineering researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln answer a fundamental question: Why would an organism spend valuable resources producing something that benefits others?

Ashley Poust this summer is taking graduate students into Montana to search for dinosaur fossils and mentoring an undergraduate researcher joining a project in Paraguay studying how fossils form, decay and enter the geologic record.

A new study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln sheds light on how parental smoking shapes adolescents’ attitudes and use of both traditional cigarettes and e‑cigarettes, finding that fathers’ behaviors may play a more influential role than those of mothers. 

Kathie Olsen, for more than two decades one of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s most steadfast research champions, , was honored for her role in helping nurture and build the university’s research enterprise.