University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Hospitals aren't the only places where people can pick up a nasty "superbug.'' A University of Maryland-led team of researchers has found methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, at sewage treatment plants in the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest....

A two-time national heavyweight champion headlines the Northern State wrestling team.  The Wolves opened their 2012-13 wrestling campaign this past weekend. NSU had wrestlers at the Warren Williamson/Daktronics Open at South Dakota State. Northern senior...

As Penn State University president, Graham Spanier would spend move-in weekend bunking in the freshman dorms, and last year he met the fate of every student who arrives a little too late: the dreaded top bunk. "As a resident of a top bunk, I can report...

David A. Peterson, a pioneer in the field of gerontology education and a longtime professor and director of USC's Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, has died. He was 75. Peterson died Oct. 4 of advanced Parkinson's disease at a nursing facility in...

 Tom Osborne announced his retirement as Nebraska’s athletic director effective Jan. 1. “It has been a pleasure and an honor to work in the Athletic Department for the past five years,” Osborne said at a press conference.  “I hope...

William C. Farrell Jr., a retired Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. executive, died Sept. 4 of complications from renal failure at his Annapolis home. He was 87. The son of a C&P telephone installer and a homemaker, William Charles Farrell Jr. was...

As the largest high school in the state, Wichita High School East boasts a large number of student athletes. Of these athletes four have been identified as standouts in their sports. Hanna Ewart For senior Hanna Ewart, volleyball is something of a...

Presentation College has hired a handful of new people. ·Sandy Cahoy has been named director of the career learning center and first year experience at Presentation College. Cahoy earned her bachelor's degree in education from Northern State...

Journalism is in the midst of a major transformation, writes Sue Burzynski Bullard, who visited the Chicago Tribune on a fellowship sponsored by the Scripps Howard Foundation and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications....

Steven Collins will make his debut as coach of the George Rogers Clark football team tonight in Corbin. Collins and his staff have spent the past six months preparing for the upcoming season, which includes five home games and the same number of road...

The UC Irvine contingent at the Olympic Games in London includes Amber Neben, a women's road cyclist who earned a master's degree from UCI. Neben attended Orange Lutheran High and competed in track and field at the University of Nebraska, where she was...

Northern State track and field coaches Jim and Brenda Fuller are leaving after 24 years with the Wolves. The Fullers have accepted positions at Central College in Pella, Iowa. “There is never a good time to leave a program that you have made your...