WAYNE, Nebraska, April 13 (TNSAwa) -- Wayne State College issued the following news release: Wayne State College students earned 13 medals when the chapter competed at the 2022 SkillsUSA Nebraska State Leadership and Skills Conference competition held April 7-9 at the state fairgrounds in Grand Island. Five WSC students qualified for the national SkillsUSA competition to be held June 20-24 in Atlanta. SkillsUSA is committed to all technical trade skills, to assist local members in their growth  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 15 (TNSAwa) -- Southeast Community College issued the following news: Southeast Community College was awarded the Ellucian Impact Award for 2022 in the Change Leadership category, which recognizes school leaders who led ambitious technology initiatives and successfully managed change across multiple groups toward clear, common goals. Dr. Paul Illich, SCC president, accepted the award April 13 on the final day of the Ellucian Live 2022 conference in Denver. "Our propos  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 16 (TNSAwa) -- Southeast Community College issued the following news: Dan Johnson, former Southeast Community College athletic director and current instructor, received the George E. Killian Award of Excellence at the 2022 National Junior College Athletic Association Convention in Birmingham, Alabama, on April 13. The award is given to individuals dedicated to the ideals of volunteerism, achievement, service, leadership, and excellence. "It is a great honor to receive   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 15 (TNSAwa) -- The University of Nebraska issued the following news release on April 14, 2022: University of Nebraska President Ted Carter announced today that Shane Farritor, professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is the inaugural recipient of the NU System's Faculty IP Innovation and Commercialization Award. The new award, one of the President's Excellence Awards, was created to honor University of N  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 11 (TNSRes) -- Creighton University issued the following news: The Center for Undergraduate Research and Scholarship (CURAS) is proud to announce this year's recipients of the Summer Undergraduate Research and Creative Fellowship (SURF) Awards. CCAS Honors Program Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow * Henry Glynn, Laudato Si and American Catholic Sustainability: A Path Forward * Faculty Mentor: Dr. Daniel DiLeo Department of History Summer Undergraduate Research Fell  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, April 12 (TNSPar) -- Creighton University issued the following news: Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions has partnered with First Place to support and serve their adult residents at First Place - Phoenix, a supportive community development that serves adults with autism and other neurodiversities. The goal is to support First Place residents as they move towards independence. The students work with the residents to review their medications as well  more

HASTINGS, Nebraska, April 12 (TNSRes) -- Hastings College issued the following news release: Natalie Watson, a Hastings College junior from Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, presented a philosophy paper at the annual No Limits! Student Research Conference. Held in March at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, No Limits! is an interdisciplinary conference for graduate and undergraduate work that explores a wide range of issues related to women, gender and sexuality. Watson presented her paper, "Doing Ju  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 15 -- The Nebraska Democratic Party issued the following news release: Nebraska Democratic Party Chair Jane Kleeb issued the following statement Thursday in reaction to an article in the Nebraska Examiner that GOP gubernatorial hopeful Charles Herbster groped eight women, including a GOP state senator. "Reprehensible behavior seems to have become commonplace in the Republican Party," Kleeb said. "Nebraska needs a governor like Carol Blood who will work to better the l  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 15 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts released the 36th episode of "The Nebraska Way," featuring Sergeant Tony Conner, president of the Omaha Police Officers Association (Omaha POA). During the episode, Sergeant Conner discusses his upbringing, motivation for joining the Omaha Police Department, and experiences he has had on the job. As president of Omaha POA, he represents more than 800 sworn rank-and-file memb  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 14 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Governor Pete Ricketts hosted a bill signing for LB 873 in the State Capitol Rotunda. LB 873 delivers record amounts of tax relief to Nebraskans by cutting income taxes and reducing property tax burdens. The Governor was joined at the ceremony by State Senators, agricultural groups, business leaders, senior citizen advocates, and other tax relief supporters. "Today, we enacted historic tax relief   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 16 -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following news release: Nebraska's March employment data and March General Fund receipts were released. Nebraska's employment reached an all-time high in March 2022 of 1,037,823. Additionally, Nebraska's unemployment rate remains the lowest in the nation, and in state history, at 2.0 percent. This growth contributed to the State's March General Fund tax receipts, which were $140 million above forecast--that's over 50 perc  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 14 (TNStalk) -- Gov. Pete Ricketts, R-Nebraska, issued the following statement: * * * Governor Pete Ricketts issued the following statement in response to President Biden's announcement of extended sales of E15 for 2022: "Thank you to President Biden for allowing E15 to be sold through the summer. This will provide needed relief to Nebraskans in the face of rising fuel prices. In the coming months, I encourage the Biden Administration to make the year-round use of E15  more

CURTIS, Nebraska, April 11 (TNSAwa) -- The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture issued the following news release: National champions in recent collegiate agriculture contests ranging from soils and crops to livestock and horses, were from the states of Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska. The Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis hosted more than 500 students, plus coaches and instructors at the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture (NACTA) Judging Contest, "Dis  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 12 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: * * * Project aims to reduce incidences of malaria * * * Husker entomologist Troy Anderson is heading up a new research project that will explore ways to reduce the incidence of malaria. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded University of Nebraska-Lincoln a three-year, $1.43 million grant to support the development of a more effective mosquito bait station. Bait stat  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 13 (TNSfund) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: JBS USA, a leading global food company, has made a gift of $700,000 to the University of Nebraska Foundation to support the University of Nebraska Lincoln and its plans for a new Feedlot Innovation Center near Mead. Located at the Eastern Nebraska Research, Extension and Education Center, the Feedlot Innovation Center will provide new capacity to develop and evaluate emerging t  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 12 (TNSRes) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: When she was asked to apply for a Fulbright Scholars Award, political scientist Patrice McMahon had no way of knowing just how relevant her research into grassroots activism in Central Europe would become in 2022. Now, as she prepares for her 2022-23 Fulbright project to teach and conduct research at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland, war in the region has made he  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 12 (TNSJou) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: * * * Design also poised to save space, retain memory in event of power loss * * * A new spin on one of the 20th century's smallest but grandest inventions, the transistor, could help feed the world's ever-growing appetite for digital memory while slicing up to 5% of the energy from its power-hungry diet. Following years of innovations from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln'  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 14 (TNSfund) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A multi-institutional open access publishing and pedagogical tool, whose leadership includes Adrian S. Wisnicki of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has received one of the largest grants this round from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education, or COVE, received $350,000 from NEH, which was announced April 13. Wisnicki,   more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 13 (TNSJou) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: A University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is using National Science Foundation funding to take a closer look at how cell-cell junctions -- the protein structures that enable cells to attach to their neighboring cells -- respond to the wide range of strains they're subjected to every day, such as cardiac pulses, stretching of the skin and peristalsis in the gut. Ruiguo Yang, as  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, April 14 (TNSPol) -- The University of Nebraska issued the following statement by System President Ted Carter on April 13, 2022: * * * University of Nebraska System President Ted Carter today issued the following statement on the Governor signing LB 1014, the bill appropriating Nebraska's share of federal American Rescue Plan dollars. "The bill includes $60 million for a UNK-UNMC Rural Health Complex to be built on the Kearney campus. "This is a big day for rural Nebraska   more