OMAHA, Nebraska, April 8 (TNSPar) -- Creighton University issued the following news release: The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has contracted with Creighton University and its clinical partner, CHI Health, to perform COVID variant testing to help with the state's COVID-19 response. As Creighton University has the expertise and capacity to detect these variants, Nebraska DHHS and the School of Medicine at Creighton have engaged in a contract to test all positive COVID-19 posi  more

KEARNEY, Nebraska, April 8 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nebraska Kearney campus issued the following news: High school students from Grand Island, Omaha, Red Cloud and Wayne won the top prizes Wednesday during a statewide business pitch competition organized by the University of Nebraska at Kearney's Center for Entrepreneurship and Rural Development. Fifty students participated in the Big Idea Nebraska High School Competition, a virtual event that gave ninth through 12th graders an opportunit  more

HASTINGS, Nebraska, April 8 (TNSJou) -- Hastings College issued the following news release: Dr. Nicole Muszynski, Hastings College professor of psychology and sociology, was recently awarded the Frank A. Beach Comparative Psychology Award for her research and writing on honeybees. The award is given annually to the best paper published in the Journal of Comparative Psychology. Muszynski's paper, "Category difference facilitates oddity learning in honeybee (Apis mellifera)," was published in Ma  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, April 9 -- Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued the following news release on April 8, 2021: A provision in a recent executive order from President Biden that seeks to have at least 30 percent of the nation's lands and waters in conservation by the year 2030 must be construed to fully protect private property rights and to preserve state and local authority over conservation measures, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said today. Schmidt joined with Nebraska Attorne  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 10 -- The Nebraska Democratic Party issued the following news release: Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb is asking the GOP Chair Dan Welch to join her in condemning a dangerous and reckless attack by the Omaha Young Republicans questioning the mental health of a state senator after an exchange Thursday in the Legislature where Sen. Cavanaugh was standing up for children. The Omaha Young Republicans issued a press release stating Sen. Cavanaugh had a "TOTAL mel  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 7 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: This morning, Governor Pete Ricketts held a press conference to encourage Nebraskans to sign up for the coronavirus vaccine. He noted that statewide coronavirus hospitalizations increased last week for the first time in 19 weeks. He also mentioned that Nebraska will be receiving increasing allocations of coronavirus vaccines to aid the State's vaccination efforts. Josie Rodriguez, Administrator for  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 8 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts and state leaders announced their opposition to the creation of a National Heritage Area in Nebraska. Recently, the Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership announced their intent to seek a National Heritage Area designation for 49 counties in Nebraska and Kansas. "The designation of a National Heritage Area in our state requires federal approvals from the National Park Se  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 10 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following statement: * * * Governor Pete Ricketts issued a statement following new action by the Biden-Harris Administration to curtail gun rights, which are protected under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "The Biden-Harris Administration has taken yet another step towards imposing new gun control measures," said Governor Ricketts. "I oppose the so-called red flag laws endorsed by the President because   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 8 (TNSGra) -- Southeast Community College issued the following news: Southeast Community College received a $2,000 grant for its Auto Collision Repair Technology program on the Milford Campus. Driven Brands Collision partnered with the Collision Repair Foundation to provide the grants to 14 colleges around the nation. The Collision School Career Readiness Benchmark Grants recognize schools that excel at educating students in collision repair, but due to strained budget  more

KEARNEY, Nebraska, April 6 (TNSEve) -- The University of Nebraska Kearney campus issued the following news on April 5, 2021: Each of the roughly 3,200 toe tags displayed inside the University of Nebraska at Kearney's Calvin T. Ryan Library represents a life cut short. They were mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles and brothers and sisters who died along the U.S.-Mexico border during their pursuit of a brighter future. Some succumbed to the extreme heat and dehydration, and others were killed   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 6 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Six University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and alumni have received 2021 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation. The program helps ensure the quality, vitality and diversity of the scientific and engineering workforce by recognizing and supporting outstanding graduate students who are pursuing full-time research-based master's and doctoral degrees in   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 8 (TNSRep) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Groundwater levels rose significantly across most of Nebraska from January 2019 to January 2020, and the state received so much precipitation over that period that a new color was added to the 2019-20 precipitation map included in the recently released 2020 Nebraska Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report. "We ran out of blues, so we had to go to purple," said Aaron Young, a geologis  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 6 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln seniors -- Andrew Haar and Cole Kovarik -- have been awarded fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service to pursue master's degrees at German universities. Haar, a mathematics major from Lincoln, will attend the University of Bonn to pursue a master's degree in mathematics. He chose this program because it offers a strong foundation in  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 7 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A University of Nebraska-Lincoln mathematician has received the department's first-ever Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation. Jack Jeffries, assistant professor of mathematics, will use the $400,000, five-year grant to advance his research in commutative algebra, a field of abstract algebra that, at its heart, is focused on polynomia  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 9 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska business confidence surged again in March, according to the latest monthly survey from the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Business Confidence Index-Nebraska rose from a value of 97.1 in February to 107.7 in March. The March reading is well above the neutral level of 100. The index reflects both recent conditions and expectations a  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 10 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska business confidence surged again in March, according to the latest monthly survey from the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Business Confidence Index-Nebraska rose from a value of 97.1 in February to 107.7 in March. The March reading is well above the neutral level of 100. The index reflects both recent conditions and expectations   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 9 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: America's economic competitiveness is tied directly to the pace of scientific and technological discovery, which requires sustained, long-term support, as well as agility. To help the United States stay at the forefront of research and innovation -- and maintain its leadership in the global economy -- the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Engineering has launched the   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 10 (TNSPar) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: America's economic competitiveness is tied directly to the pace of scientific and technological discovery, which requires sustained, long-term support, as well as agility. To help the United States stay at the forefront of research and innovation -- and maintain its leadership in the global economy -- the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Engineering has launched the  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 6 (TNSEve) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: Nebraska Extension's Native American Coalition, in partnership with the Nebraska Water Center, is hosting its inaugural Tribal Water and Food Sustainability Summit April 14-15. The summit, which will be held via Zoom, is geared toward University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty but is open to anyone interested in learning about the following topics: * Tribal worldviews and relationsh  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 7 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and Children's Hospital & Medical Center are part of the nationwide COVID-19 Prevention Network (CoVPN), which recently launched a clinical trial called Prevent COVID U. The study will evaluate SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission among college students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) who receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, mRN  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 3 (TNSOps) -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: The National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) - a consortium of three teaching hospitals that successfully treated patients with Ebola in 2014 - will help create and implement a nationwide plan to care for patients in future pandemics. NETEC was tapped by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedn  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 9 -- The University of Nebraska Medical Center issued the following news release: The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received approval from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to create a fellowship program in allergy and immunology. The two-year fellowship, which will begin July 1, 2022, is open to residents and physicians nationwide who graduated from an ACGME-accredited residency program in internal medicine, pediatrics or medic  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 9 -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following white paper by associate economics professor Eric Thompson entitled "Nebraska Business and Consumer Confidence Index: April 9, 2021": * * * Summary: The Business Confidence Index - Nebraska had a value of 107.7 during March of 2021. That value is well above the neutral level of 100 and reflects positive business confidence. The recent conditions sub-index was below neutral, at a value of 90.8, due to   more