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The New Mexico State University Board of Regents is expected to appoint a new school president at a special meeting Thursday.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Recent explosions and flash fires that occurred in livestock buildings with manure pits in Iowa and Minnesota have a University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension engineer and others offering advice on how to avoid these potentially dangerous situations.

A former University of Nebraska-Lincoln assistant professor has been fined $1,000 for lying about his academic credentials.

LINCOLN, Neb. -- University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension is planning a special program to help advise farmers on how to deal with the challenges of the 2009 harvest.

The president of Southern Illinois University says he's made up his mind about who should be the next chancellor of the system's flagship Carbondale campus.

Nebraska is not reconsidering its planned switch from electrocution to a three-drug lethal injection cocktail to execute inmates, despite Ohio's decision to start using a single-drug injection following a botched execution attempt, officials said Monday.

The amendment, authored by Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., went beyond preventing the proposed government-run plan from covering abortion to restrict federal subsidies from going toward private plans that offer abortion coverage.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension says its expanded Web site for CropWatch makes it easier for farmers to find crop information.

Mueller Planetarium at the University of Nebraska State Museum will take visitors on a journey to the center of the galaxy when it unveils two new mural-sized images of the Milky Way's core.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is counting on hundreds of high school students showing up for its 20th annual Math Day.

The grocery store -- with all those aisles devoted entirely to cookies and crackers, not to mention the candy calling out to you at the checkout stand -- may seem like the perfect place to ruin your diet.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has won a $3.1 million grant to fund what it calls an innovative graduate education program.

Billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates will meet with Columbia University business students on Thursday and answer their questions about business and life.

Summary Innovative announced that the development of Encore Reporter, the product that brings the power and ease of Encore Discovery to library-business information, now benefits from the participation of a group of academic libraries that has grown to eight.

People trying to fight through the economic downturn by earning college degrees may soon find them harder to afford in Nebraska.

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A Lincoln technology entrepreneur has given $1 million to a Nebraska Educational Telecommunications fundraising drive.

Pollsters say economic worries may have contributed to a decline in rural Nebraskans' views of their communities.

Next week, the University of Nebraska will celebrate 100 years of distance education.