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. 

As part of the national America 250 celebrations, the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, through its research and emerging media production team Edgeworks, has digitized and 3D-scanned each of the sculptures included in Nebraska’s Interstate 80 Bicentennial Sculpture Project in collaboration with the Nebraska Arts Council.

Husker scientists have developed a new swine influenza vaccination technique whose low cost and adaptability can greatly strengthen disease protection. 

As Nebraska continues to confront brain drain and declining rural populations, the new Nebraska Snapshot from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln illustrates that residents’ overall satisfaction with living here has fallen in the past six years. 

A $1.4 million Department of Energy grant will power nuclear reactor safety training and workforce development in Nebraska because of a collaboration between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, Nebraska Public Power District, Idaho National Laboratory, Southeast Community College, Asian Community & Cultural Center, and industry partners such as Orano and Kairos Power. 

Nebraska researchers has mapped a new region within chloroplasts that serves as the assembly line for photosynthetic membranes. The study, recently published in Nature Communications, identifies a specific area within the cell where the machinery of life is built, repaired and maintained.