Inside the Brain: How Hearing Differences Shape Learning
Children who wear hearing aids often fall behind in language and school. Yet some do as well or even better than peers with typical [...]
2026 Legislative Wrap-Up
The Nebraska legislative session wrapped up today, capping off a challenging few months as state senators worked to close a significant budget deficit. Unfortunately, those [...]
Biomedical and Obesity Research Core offers equipment, expertise, support
The Biomedical and Obesity Research Core plays a key role in scientific discovery, offering researchers access to advanced equipment, technical expertise and hands‑on support [...]
Advancing Muscle and Vascular Health
Investment from tobacco settlement funding: $19,600 Total portfolio through FY25: $1.32 million Return on investment: 67 to 1 “Millions of people are [...]
Husker researchers make gains on developing synthetic ‘muscle’
Husker researchers are continuing to make progress on developing a new synthetic material that behaves like biological muscle, an advancement that could provide a [...]
First in the state to develop strategy to test pregnant women at high risk for preeclampsia
Preeclampsia can cause serious complications—and even death—if left untreated. The condition develops during pregnancy, often causing high blood pressure and affecting organs like the kidneys and liver. [...]
Exploring the Quantum Frontier: UNK professor helps advance cutting-edge research through EQUATE
As a physics professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Jeremy Armstrong is no stranger to asking big questions. Thanks to a $20 [...]
Putting Tests to the Test: Getting Results for Kids
Call it a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Say a child scores low on a test, but they also struggle with the skills needed to take that [...]
Biomedical Research Is Nebraska’s Brain Gain
By Juliane Strauss-Soukup, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship at Creighton University. Creighton University is a critical partner in growing the State of [...]
A Smart Nebraska Investment in Research and People
By Tammy Kielian, PhD - UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology As a native Nebraskan from Stanton, I graduated from the University of [...]