Anna Jaffe, assistant professor of psychology at Nebraska, and colleagues conducted a survey and found that the influx of students moving back in with their parents during the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to a substantial drop in alcohol use.
Stories on the study appeared in 10 Nebraska media outlets — including the Lincoln Journal Star — as well as Inside Higher Ed and University Business.
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Kaela Meyer, a senior psychology major and Husker Spirit Squad member, helped save a stranger’s life March 14 by performing CPR on him in the Applebee’s restaurant at Lincoln’s Gateway Mall. Stories on the incident appeared on KETV, KLKN and several other media outlets.
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A “holy grail” long pursued by Husker physicists — a quantum material whose magnetic states could be altered by electric means alone, and above room temperature — could help herald the emergence of digital memory and processors that consume far less power, while potentially running even faster, than their modern-day counterparts. The team was led by Christian Binek, Peter Dowben, and Alexei Gruverman, all physics. Technology.org ran an April 5 article on the research breakthrough.
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Chigozie Obioma, English, was included in a CNN.com photo gallery titled “14 award-winning African authors you should know.”
