The Association of University Presses and the University of Nebraska Press are bringing the the 2024 Book, Jacket and Journal Show to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. 

The exhibit opens March 24 and runs through April 4. The exhibit is free and open to the public and will be on view in Love Library North, Room 219.

A new study at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln sheds light on how external market pressures keep public companies locked into issuing quarterly earnings forecasts—a practice often criticized for encouraging short-term thinking over long-term growth.

Eric Markvicka, the Robert F. and Myrna L. Krohn Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has been selected to the 2025 Class of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Senior Members.

A Nebraska biology duo has published one of the first studies demonstrating that one type of animal, when faced with human-generated noise, is able to alter how it receives sound-based information. In a recent Current Biology publication, Husker biologists Brandi Pessman and Eileen Hebets demonstrated that the webs of funnel-weaving spiders transmit vibrations differently in response to increased local environmental noise. This flexibility in web transmission properties suggests that the spiders may intentionally spin their webs differently to manage surrounding noise and receive crucial sensory information.

Disease prevention for Nebraska swine herds — exceeding 3.7 million pigs — is set to take a major step forward this year thanks to innovative science from DARO, a private-sector ag tech startup at Nebraska Innovation Campus. DARO’s pathogen surveillance approach leverages expertise from diverse scientific disciplines, translating advancements in molecular biology into practical tools for livestock health.

After a decade of study, including a year living in Mexico City, annual trips to the national archives there and a research trip to London, James Garza is reaching the finishing stages of a book about how the Mexican government under President Porfirio Diaz, partnered with a major British engineering firm to build a 30-mile drainage canal outside Mexico City at the end of the 19th century. 

The Gran Canal del Desagüe was an engineering triumph that provided flood control, improved sanitation and propelled Mexico City to become one of the world’s largest and most beautiful metropolitan areas.