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Jessica Petersen (center), associate professor of animal science, and graduate students Mackenzie Batt (left) and Lauren Seier (right) are part of a five-person Husker team whose research can expand the range of genetic tools used by breeders to boost cattle growth efficiency.

From Nebraska Today

Husker team to ID genetic tools to boost cattle growth efficiency

September 21, 2023

Brooklynn Hunke, a freshman from Gretna, Nebraska, talks with Misora Okuoka, a sophomore from Japan. The university’s latest census shows a 3.6% increase in first-time freshmen from Nebraska.

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Student body grows in total Nebraskans, first-time Huskers, diversity

September 6, 2023

A grain truck crosses the dry Platte River near Chapman, Nebraska, on Oct. 13. At the time, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported that the area around Chapman was in severe/extreme drought.

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Rural Prosperity Nebraska, Oklahoma State team up to study rural resilience

August 29, 2023

Stylized image of a fluorescent green effector protein surrounded by bits of genetic code

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Study IDs secret of stealthy invader essential to ruinous rice disease

August 25, 2023

Husker scientists Hiep Vu and Sarah Sillman stand in a shadowy room, with a microscope in the foreground.

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Husker scientists’ research project aims to crack code of major swine virus

August 16, 2023

Two large jars of kombucha during fermentation

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Husker scientists contribute to pilot study showing kombucha’s possible benefits

August 1, 2023

James Schnable stands in a corn field

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Nebraska team aids first mapping of corn genome

July 10, 2023

Ethan Dunn, a senior political science major and UCARE student from Omaha, works on a computer.

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148 Husker undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects

June 28, 2023

Two trays of wheat samples in a greenhouse. At left are non-inoculated control plants. At right is a soil mix inoculated with isolates of the Fusarium fungus.

From Nebraska Today

Morocco collaboration to boost wheat research, grad study opportunities

June 20, 2023

Cornfield overlaid with graphs

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Refining surge protector in crops could boost yields

June 5, 2023

A man and a woman walk behind the Flex-Ro autonomous planting robot in a field.

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‘High-tech farm hand’: Husker research team builds autonomous planter

June 1, 2023

Color photo of Ahmed Alsayid on red campus background

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Alsayid to travel to Turkey as Critical Language Scholar

May 24, 2023