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Eric Weaver, professor of biological sciences and director of the Nebraska Center for Virology, poses for a photo in his lab at the Morrison Life Sciences Center. Weaver has developed a vaccine approach that shows promise in protecting against highly pathogenic bird flu.

From Nebraska Today

Weaver earns $4M grant to target future flu pandemics

May 20, 2026

Nebraska’s Naim Bautista and Jay Storz are part of an international research team that studied how localized genetic adaptations can help a single species thrive across diverse environments.

From Nebraska Today

Storz earns Fulbright to study high-altitude life in the Andes

May 19, 2026

A herd of Holstein cattle, which are black and white in color, roam a field.

From Nebraska Today

Researchers develop promising new vaccine against bird flu

April 27, 2026

A rendering of a renovated Elephant Hall at the University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall, with people observing mammoth and mastodon fossils.

From Nebraska Today

Morrill Hall renovation will include major updates to Elephant Hall

April 24, 2026

A close view of Methanobacterium nebraskense (with false color) appears red and stringy.

From Nebraska Today

Husker scientists name novel microorganism after Nebraska

April 22, 2026

Eric Weaver in lab

Weaver earns USDA grant for vaccine development

April 17, 2026

Bhatt and Brassil

Bhatt, Brassil selected for inaugural cohort of Harvard, UNL collaboration

April 15, 2026

Employees from Stephens & Smith Construction pour wheelbarrows of cement around a 3D printed replica of an incomplete Menoceras arikarense fossil – a small, extinct rhinoceros found in Nebraska fossil beds. The replica was printed by Frontier Tech Lab at the Nebraska Innovation Studios and will be part of a new fossil dig in the redesigned Marx Science Discovery Center in Morrill Hall.

From Nebraska Today

Frontier Tech Lab helps bring hands‑on fossil dig to Morrill Hall

April 15, 2026

Wayne Wang and Shelby Jackson

Jackson presents fruit fly research in Chicago

April 14, 2026

Russette Lyons

Lyons to represent CAS as Alumni Master Apr. 8-10

April 3, 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.

From Nebraska Today

Husker researchers collaborate to explore fear of spiders

March 2, 2026

Kaden Hughes

Student Spotlight: Kaden Hughes

February 19, 2026