Nebraska College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources

We are hosting a CASNR Alumni Event in Northeast Nebraska. We'd love to see your familiar faces there!

"We carry our home with us wherever we go." - Johnny Carson (NU '49)

It's officially the start of the fall semester! 🎉📚 We are wishing you an amazing year of learning, friendship, and growth.

Faculty from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln are leading a federally funded initiative to develop a national cyber-ecosystem for agricultural producer data. The National Agricultural Producers Data Cooperative conference, held Aug. 8-9 on UNL’s East Campus, featured academics, industry scientists and representatives from producer groups. “The main takeaway is we are solving and will continue to solve problems for producers around data,” said Clarke, professor of statistics and food science and technology, and director of UNL’s Quantitative Life Sciences Initiative. “That is really the value of bringing this group together — prioritizing what problems to solve for now and the future.” https://lnkd.in/gf4zBekk

We are coming to West Point and would love to see all of our CASNR Alum!

We are shifting into celebration mode as thousands of Husker students return to campus ahead of the start of the fall semester. Big Red Welcome festivities, which begin Aug. 19 and continue into the first weeks of the new semester, aim to foster school spirit, ease the transition back to academic life, and provide students opportunities to venture out and find their community. Huskers can access a full list of events by downloading the Nebraska app or visiting the Big Red Welcome webpage. https://lnkd.in/gt7SjJuX

Huge congratulations to our August graduates! We celebrated commencement August 17th at PBA and we are still celebrating because we know you'll do great things in the world. Follow the link for the recap and see the full list of graduates.🎓⬇️ https://lnkd.in/gzvWirp2

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln will confer about 550 degrees during a combined graduate and undergraduate commencement ceremony Aug. 17 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m., with doors opening to the public at 7:30 a.m. The university will award doctoral, master’s, juris doctorate and baccalaureate degrees. Chancellor Rodney D. Bennett will preside over the commencement ceremony. Congratulations to all of the August graduates!🎓 https://lnkd.in/gFBBRu5y

A team led by Nebraska's James Schnable has received federal funding to expand the development of an innovative method to predict the performance of corn hybrids. The work is an important step toward commercializing new crop varieties. “By being able to test across many environments with really farmer-relevant genetics, we want to make the transition from a fundamental discovery to a technology that people can actually use,” said Schnable, Nebraska Corn Checkoff Presidential Chair and professor of agronomy and horticulture. https://lnkd.in/gDmdxvWU

Just as hungry hordes of grasshoppers threatened fields during Nebraska’s pioneer era, certain mites and aphids these days pose a significant threat by transmitting viruses to cereal crops. Many gaps remain in the scientific understanding of that transmission, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in recent years has taken major steps to pioneer research on these issues. Filling in this knowledge can provide a major help to agriculture by enabling more effective practices to contain the threats. Shaonpius Mondal, a scientist with deep experience in studying arthropods as virus vectors in agriculture, and his team are pursuing multiple advanced research projects studying cereal viruses transmitted by wheat curl mites and aphids. https://lnkd.in/gxqh89ri