U.S. News & World Report: Your college has ways to help you fit in -- but...
There's little advantage to a more globalized campus if the students aren't doing more than just sitting next to each other in classes, UNL Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs David Wilson...
View ArticleWNYC: Rick Perry's 'Strong' ad dubbed a viral video fail
It may be a "perhaps clumsy" play to be the next Mike Huckabee, said Michael W. Wagner, whose specialty at UNL is political communication and elections. "Mike Huckabee performed very well with...
View ArticleU.S. News & World Report: A jobs problem you haven't heard about
The advance of machinery gives rise to a problem plaguing manufacturing: a skills mismatch. The technology used in crop and livestock production has advanced, and many workers are not educated enough...
View ArticleBoston Globe: How Frank talk helped changed politics
UNL political scientists Michael Wagner predicted continued change in politics, but said it's easier for a gay or lesbian candidate to get elected locally first, rather than be elected initially to...
View ArticleThe Associated Press: Rural communities struggle with lack of lawyers
Susan Poser said UNL identified a shortage of rural lawyers as a problem that needed to be addressed shortly after she became dean in May 2010. The university is developing coursework on solo and small...
View ArticleThe Associated Press: Bad economy? Farmers have one of best years ever
"We're just experiencing the best of times," said Bruce Johnson, an agricultural economist at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. "It's a story to tell."
View ArticleThe Dish: What makes a murderer?
Ari Kohen explains how the psychology of murderers supports research suggesting there is no deterrent effect.
View ArticleGuernica Magazine: The harmonizer
Kwame Dawes, the Emmy Award-winning poet and crisis reporter, on Haiti's continuing struggles and Jamaica's AIDS crisis, how Afro-Caribbean music has influenced the writing of V.S. Naipaul and Langston...
View ArticleThe Street: Think your way to lower debt? You can
A UNL study shows that what you think you know about finance is every bit as important as what you actually know when managing a credit card account.
View ArticleReuters: Four reasons active fund managers are having a woeful year
At any given time, most equity fund managers hold some cash to keep their powder dry for future purchases. But with interest rates so low, that cash is basically earning nothing and can be a lead...
View ArticleMashable: 5 things you need to know about drone journalism
They are an affordable way to cover disasters, breaking events. "I think drones -- small, cheap, easy-to-use vehicles that can fit in a small bag and carried into the field by a reporter -- offer a...
View ArticleThe Associated Press: UNL uses flying robots to photograph crops for research
UNL assistant turf grass and genetics professor Keenan Amundsen says the new technology saves time and makes the research easier.
View ArticleThe Associated Press: Democrats scramble after Nelson announces retirement
"This virtually guarantees a Republican victory in 2012," said UNL political scientist Mike Wagner. "There's almost no scenario in which a Democrat can win -- especially at this late stage."
View ArticleAmerican Banker: Nebraska program developing next-generation bankers
UNL has developed a curriculum that is helping college graduates accomplish the unthinkable: finding banking jobs in a post-crisis operating environment.
View ArticleThe Associated Press: UNL plans to save Industrial Arts Building
UNL announced plans to preserve at least the exterior of a 99-year-old state fair building while constructing two floors of high-tech research space inside.
View ArticleThe Chronicle of Higher Education: The Come-To-DH Moment
One of the leading figures in the field of digital humanities, Kenneth M. Price, co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL, observed that faculty members are likely to...
View ArticleBusiness News Daily: The 'imaginary' question every job interviewer should ask
New UNL research found that study participants who envisioned positive co-workers contributed more in the actual workplace, both in job performance and by going above and beyond their job descriptions...
View ArticleWNYC: Drones, coming soon to a sky near you
Matt Waite, founder of UNL's Drone Journalism Lab, about some of the "cool" and "creepy" ramifications of drone technology.
View ArticleNPR: The art of the movie trailer
Early trailers, says UNL film historian Wheeler Winston Dixon, were all like this. Very comfortable -- and often full of over-the-top superlatives.
View ArticleDes Moines Register: Professor's aim -- avoid asteroid hit
Two international treaties signed by the U.S. appear to ban launching a nuclear device at an asteroid, said Frans von der Dunk, space law professor at the University of Nebraska College of Law. A 1967...
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