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UNL's Kirk Dombrowski has received $2.9 million from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse for a five-year study investigating how HIV spreads among Puerto Rican drug users.

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Dombrowski studies HIV spread in rural Puerto Rico

August 14, 2014

Interior of the Uganda Poetry Library in Kampala.

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Collaboration establishes 5 poetry libraries in Africa

August 5, 2014

Music students (from left) Nathaniel Sullivan, Angela Gilbert, Kayla Wilkens and Jeremy Brown at the NATS National Conference.

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Achievements: Four honored at NATS national conference

August 1, 2014

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Sociologist using technology to study substance use among homeless

July 30, 2014

A UNL research team will use a new two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study whether support in one early childhood setting can help compensate for a lack thereof in another.

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Study examining contextual impacts on early temperament, teen outcomes

July 23, 2014

A new study by UNL's Jeffrey Smith shows that diversity in the U.S. population is changing the face of social networks. The study was published in the June edition of the American Sociological Review.

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Study shows social networks are growing more diverse

July 22, 2014

Scott Gardner holds up a parasite preserved on a slide in the Manter Laboratory of Parasitology. Gardner led a team that discovered four new species of tuco-tucos while studying parasites in Bolivia. Tuco-tucos are a South American rodent, about 24 inches long that live in Bolivia.

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Gardner leads discovery of four new tuco-tuco species

July 18, 2014

Aaron Duncan (left) holds a doctorate in communication studies specializing in the study of sports rhetoric and cultural mythology.

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Poker: Gambling with the myth of the American Dream?

July 10, 2014

UNL physicist Aaron Dominguez leads collaboration involving eight universities to upgrade the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector, a key component of the world’s largest physics experiment. The illustration shows an event, captured by CMS in 2012, that provides evidence of the Higgs boson.

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UNL leads $11.5M project to enhance atom smasher

July 7, 2014

Heitor Castro, a sophomore computer engineering major, attended Google's annual Scholar's Retreat in June. He is UNL's first Generation Google Scholar.

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Brazilian student is first Generation Google Scholar

July 6, 2014

Ivan Moreno is one of 10 UNL students who have recently received National Science Foundation Fellowships. Moreno is using his award to further his graduate study into solar energy.

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Moreno, nine others, granted NSF fellowships

June 18, 2014

Members of the UNL Speech and Debate team delegation stand next to a plaque at the University of Nebraska's American Exchange Center at Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.

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Speech, debate team returns from China

June 16, 2014