Tag: Biology

Increasing the number of external honorific awards is one of UNL’s strategic goals. The following list includes selected awards and accomplishments that Husker researchers earned in fiscal year 2025.

Humans have strategies for dealing with bothersome environmental noise: headphones, white noise, soundproofing materials and more. Husker research suggests that animals, too, have methods for tuning out. Biologists Eileen Hebets and Brandi Pessman published one of the first studies showing that the funnel-weaving spider can change how it receives sound when faced with local, human-generated noise.