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Nebraska in the national news: February 2026

March 3, 2026

Extension Assistant Madelaine Polk “candles” an egg after seven days of incubation for third-grade students at Trinity Lutheran

4-H embryology cracks 50 years of chicks hatching in local classrooms

March 3, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Paige Petersen

UNL CASNR Alumni Feature: Paige Petersen

March 2, 2026

Husker researchers pose in a blue-lit lab. From left are: Kevin Smith, Leland J. and Dorothy H. Olson Professor of political science; Heather Akin, associate professor of agricultural leadership, education and communication; Eileen Hebets, George Holmes Professor of biological sciences; Emma Brase, graduate student in psychology; and Mike Dodd, professor of psychology. Hebets has a tarantula on her right wrist.

Husker researchers collaborate to explore fear of spiders

March 2, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Farm Progress spotlights pesticide safety education efforts

March 2, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

From design to display, students test florist skills

February 27, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

A red flag with a white Husker N waves over a sidewalk on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus. Snow covers the ground.

Record five Husker researchers named NAI Senior Members

February 26, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Ranchers move a herd of cattle in a field.

Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance announces 2026 certification schedule

February 25, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Tiffany Heng-Moss gestures during a discussion with university leaders.

Heng-Moss named permanent vice chancellor for agriculture and natural resources

February 24, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

spring calves sorted in corral

Nebraska Extension to host March 17 webinar on confinement feeding cow-calf pairs

February 24, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Kristina Alas inspects the health and growth of new hops plants.

Nebraska hop featured in local brew, first in program history

February 24, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

red angus cattle move towards feed in the Nebraska Sandhills during a snow squall

Nebraska Extension to host webinar on low pregnancy rates in young cows

February 18, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Color portrait of Tamar Haspel, food columnist for The Washington Post, on a color campus background.

Heuermann Lecture to address consensus-building for ag solutions

February 17, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Josh Palik photographs a flying squirrel habitat house on campus.

Student documents new homeowners on campus — flying squirrels

February 17, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Cameron Berliner, a first-year University of Nebraska-Lincoln student from Stapleton, Nebraska, gains hands-on experience to supports his goal of practicing large-animal veterinary medicine in rural Nebraska.

Elite 11 Spotlight: Cameron Berliner

February 13, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Sierra Rush, DMV

Beef Quality Assurance has high value for producers and consumers

February 13, 2026

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has announced policy changes to enhance awarding of academic credit for students who transfer to the institution.

Achievements | Honors, appointments and publications for Feb. 13

February 13, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Zac Hartman, a junior mechanical engineering major, writes what he loves about the University of Nebraska–Lincoln on a heart for Glow Big Red. Next to Hartman are mascots Herbie Husker and Lil' Red

Glow Big Red raises record $3.6 million for Husker students

February 12, 2026

Edgar Cahoon, George Holmes Professor of Biochemistry and Director of the University’s Center for Plant Science Innovation, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Cahoon holds soybeans that are engineered for aquaculture feed traits inside his Beadle Hall lab. December 6, 2024. Photo by Jordan Opp / University Communication and Marketing.”

AOCS awards to Ciftci and Cahoon salute Husker scientific innovation

February 12, 2026

Community Engagement

Build stronger communities through Effective Public Engagement course

February 12, 2026