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State Tipoffs Involving Nebraska Newsletter for Sunday June 05, 2022 ( 4 items )  

Creighton University Professor and Research Team Unearth Story of Ancient Humanity
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 2 (TNSres) -- Creighton University issued the following news on June 1, 2022: The tooth belonged to a young girl - somewhere between 3 1/2 and 8 years old. It was unerupted, still embedded deep within her jaw when she died in southeast Asia, in the modern country of Laos, roughly 150,000 years ago. The girl's remains, alongside those of other ancient mammals, were washed into a cave by slow-moving water. Over the years, the remains deteriorated - even the bone - until on  more

Neb. A.G. Peterson: Joins Coalition Urging Supreme Court to Protect Free Speech of Small Business Owners
LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 3 -- Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson issued the following news release: Attorney General Peterson, as part of a 20-state coalition, filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) to defend First Amendment rights of business owners. In 303 Creative v. Elenis, the coalition is arguing that states cannot use their public accommodations laws to force business owners to act contrary to their sincerely held religious beliefs. Lorie Smith,  more

University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Nebraska Business Receives $1M Endowment for Building Enhancements
LINCOLN, Nebraska, June 3 (TNSfund) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: University of Nebraska Lincoln alumni Paul and Mary Ann Koehler have made a $1 million gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation to establish a permanently endowed fund for the College of Business. The endowment will provide annual support to the college to make enhancements at Howard L. Hawks Hall. "We are grateful to Paul and Mary Ann Koehler for their generous gift that wi  more

University of Nebraska-Omaha: Cyber Threats Targeting Agriculture Focus of New Cybersecurity Testbed
OMAHA, Nebraska, June 1 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska's Omaha Campus issued the following news release: * * * A newly developed Security Testbed for Agricultural Vehicles and Environments, or STAVE, provides a way to shrink agricultural systems down to a more manageable level for cybersecurity research. * * * Research led by a cybersecurity professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) is taking aim at hackers and cyber criminals who may target the agricultural industry in   more