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Eleven University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded professorships from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.

Eleven faculty earn professorships

April 7, 2026

two people, one in a suit and one in a white lab coat and blue gloves, stand a lab bench. Both are happy.

Husker discoveries, collaborations, insight made national news in 2025

January 10, 2026

A boy gets placed in an MRI machine.

Team publishes road map for advancing health equity

January 10, 2026

From Nebraska Today

Nebraska-developed vaccine protects against swine, human and bird flu

May 12, 2025

Kai Waddell poses for a portrait at the Morrison Life Sciences Building on East Campus. Waddell is a Microbiology major and is set to graduate this May.

From Nebraska Today

Waddell found success — and balance — as an undergrad

May 9, 2025

University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduates (from left) Avery Marquis, Vanessa Hubing and Chanasei Ziemann pose in lab coats for a photo in Luwen Zhang’s campus lab. The students are first co-authors on two research papers published recently in the Journal of Medicine Virology. Their work explores how key immune systems have adapted over time.

From Nebraska Today

Nebraska undergrads uncover ancient secrets of human immunity

March 26, 2025

Qingsheng Li, Willa Cather Professor of biological sciences and a member of the Nebraska Center for Virology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, appears in his lab.

From Nebraska Today

Li advances work on HIV vaccine

October 29, 2024

two people in a greenhouse inspecting little plants in yellow cups

Mondal lab pioneers research into pest-borne viral infections of cereal crops

August 5, 2024

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Registration open for Prem S. Paul Symposium in Virology

August 5, 2024

From Nebraska Today

Registration open for Prem S. Paul Symposium in Virology

August 5, 2024

A rendering of the Ebola virus

From Nebraska Today

Early experiments show Ebola-fighting potential of engineered bacteria

March 8, 2024

A team led by Eric Weaver, associate professor of biological sciences, has developed a robust vaccine against a strain of swine influenza. Framed by a model of nucleic acid proteins is (from left) Weaver; Matt Pekarek, a graduate student in the Weaver Lab; Cedric Wooledge, a technician with the Institutional Animal Care Program; David Steffen, with the Nebraska Veterinary Diagnostic Center; and Nicholas Jeanjaquet and Erika Petro-Turnquist, both doctoral students in the Weaver Lab. Not pictured is Hiep Vu,…

From Nebraska Today

Husker scientists closing in on long-lasting swine flu vaccine

June 6, 2023