We’ve all heard that bright colored paints might be better for cooling because they don’t absorb heat as much as darker colors but now, resear…
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Remember that feeling you get before the first day of college, that rush of excitement? Students aren't the only ones who feel it- college pro…
Back in March 2021, Merrick Garland pledged on his first day as attorney general a return to what he calls the “norms” of the Justice Department. But since then it's been anything but typical.
A Democratic lawmaker in Oklahoma is kicked off committees. Two Florida Democratic leaders are arrested for participating in an abortion rights protest. Experts say these kinds of harsh punishments will likely become more common in today's increasingly polarized political atmosphere.
In several red states around the country, conservative officials say it's time to reconsider tenure for university professors. The indefinite academic appointments have faced review from lawmakers or state oversight boards in at least half a dozen states, often presented as bids to rein in academics with liberal views.
A UNL program has received a nearly $1 million grant to expand its science, technology, engineering and math program to first-generation college students from minority groups.
He was looking for a KitchenAid mixer. He found a medieval treasure.
Instead of trying to stay out of the political fray, Julia Schleck, a UNL associate professor of English, said colleges and universities should accept their campuses are inherently political spaces.
🎧 What is the future of American democracy? Noam Chomsky discusses that topic, free speech and more on the Utterly Moderate Podcast.
Police on Friday identified the 83-year-old woman found dead this week in a southwest Lincoln stream as Marilyn McArthur, a longtime Union College professor.
Retired Justice Stephen Breyer has a new title: professor. Breyer, who retired from the Supreme Court June 30, will rejoin Harvard's law school faculty.
Republican Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri was accused by a law professor of engaging in a line of transphobic questioning during a hearing Tuesd…
The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline, according to a new report. A look at the numbers.
1 million COVID-19 deaths. 10 killed in a racist shooting at a grocery store, among thousands lost to gun violence. Is mass death now acceptable in America?
Kristen Jozkowski is the William L. Yarber Endowed Professor in Sexual Health at Indiana University. In this interview, Jozkowski talks about …
Brittney Griner is easily the most prominent U.S. citizen known jailed by a foreign government. Yet the case against her remains shrouded in mystery.
Many of the youth have a difficult time adjusting to American society and struggle in U.S. schools early on, researchers said.
A robot made of magnetic slime has been created by researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Benjamin-Alvarado, 64, will be Texas Christian University’s chief inclusion officer and senior advisor to the chancellor.
A Black investigative journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for her groundbreaking work on the bitter legacy of slavery in the U.S. announced Tu…
Paul Johnsgard, a professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, wrote more than 100 books on birds, ecology and natural history in his 89 years, and finished the proofs of his final book just days before his death last week.
Before the coronavirus pandemic struck New York City, LaGuardia Community College professor Lucia Fuentes, recognized a language barrier for m…
Joanne Li was named Wednesday as the University of Nebraska at Omaha's priority candidate for chancellor. She would become the first woman of color to lead UNO.
Professor Edwin Driver arrived in Amherst in 1948 as one of the first Black teachers hired at a flagship state university in the country.