http://ucommxsrv1.unl.edu/unlnews/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln In The News en-us Copyright 2005 University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.unl.edu/favicon.gif http://www.unl.edu/ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2009/11/if_you_havent_thought_much.html UNL law professor Marvin Ammori said cable and satellite companies lease the majority of boxes to its customers -- the FCC said the same thing in its presentation-- so to say there is choice at retail doesn't address the fact that most consumers find it convenient to take the box provided ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:11:32 CST http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/17/apocalyptic.movies/index.html Movie history is replete with end-of-the-world scenarios, whether driven by religion, alien invasion, environmental disaster or warfare. UNL film studies professor Wheeler Winston Dixon says the topic is almost as old as film itself: The first sound film of Abel Gance, who made the groundbreaking 1927 silent "Napoleon," was 1931 ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:49:58 CST http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-79/1258390869110180.xml&storylist=cleveland The fact Ohio has moved to one drug should send a message," said Eric Berger, a law professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who studies the death penalty. "If they do have (a death penalty) the one-drug is a lot safer and more humane and easier to implement ... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:43:59 CST http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-09-30/news/0909290076_1_facebook-prospective-students-social-media David Burge, associate dean of admissions at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and an expert in using social media, said 91 percent of admitted students who create a profile on his campus' private network end up enrolling ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:56:28 CST http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=4603176 The UNLPD's Jared Burkholder is a geographic information specialist -- someone who spots trends in data through mapping. Neither he nor his boss, UNLPD Chief Owen Yardley, is aware of any other campus police department with such a job on game day ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:14:57 CST http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-winterpark-20091112,0,642879.story?track=rss UNL communications studies professor Damien Pfister says the immediacy of an e-mail spreading a false rumor in a Florida community is one of the defining figures of digital media. "It sort of seems like word of mouth is on steroids now ... Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:39:56 CST http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/education/os-head-lice-lady-111209,0,937144.story Barb Ogg, a pest expert and extension educator at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Office, said the surge in lice-removal businesses indicates two things: Over-the-counter products aren't working and families are busy ... Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:27:38 CST http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-biofuels4-2009nov04,0,2435171.story?track=rss UNL's Ken Cassman says proponents of the tariff believe the strategic goals could be defeated by opening U.S. doors to Brazilian ethanol, because it could lead to the replacement of one dependency -- on oil imports -- with another -- on foreign ethanol ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:49:06 CST http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment-headlines/ci_13714866?nclick_check=1 UNL's Wheeler Winston Dixon has charted cinema's love of the end, which is entrenched in a history that predates movies. "People are eager for the end, but they've always been eager for it, going back to the dawn of time ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:37:32 CST http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iHoYz3n0zaozmmUbzkxCkNUsOVlgD9BN6F9G0 There is no way to return to the past," says UNL professor Waskar Ari, who likens his country of Bolivia's "rebirth" to the casting off of apartheid on another continent two decades ago ... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:08:50 CST http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=8918714 UNL horticulture professor Dale Lindgren says some commercial growers started with gourds and have expanded into Indian corn and little straw bales. Such "ornamentals" are sold to big-box stores as well as farmers' markets ... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:09:28 CDT http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/10/24/sotu.king.nebraska/index.html UNL agricultural economist Dick Perrin says ethanol is going to be a "bridge fuel" for about 20 years. "It's not a big fuel but I think it is an important fuel in this bridging period until we find other kinds of technologies that will give us the energy supply we ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:35:10 CDT http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gptQ7n5vw5Zrw2n0oiG9FVqaXOgwD9BIRUM00 UNL researchers say they want the university to become a hub for research on human trafficking. Marketing professor Dwayne Ball says trafficking is a problem found worldwide, so Nebraska makes as much sense as anywhere else ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:32:02 CDT http://www.mercurynews.com/movies-dvd/ci_13612383?nclick_check=1 UNL's Wheeler Winston Dixon is among a number of experts who discuss what drives horror film trends: current events, religious questions and, perhaps most cynically but as true as anything, money ... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:47:13 CDT http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/obama-adviser-warns-against-quick-decisions-on-afghanistan/ David Axelrod was at UNL as the keynote speaker at a lecture series in honor of the late Democratic Rep. Peter J. Hoagland. Axelrod also told the audience of about 300 people that Friday had been quite a day at the White House ... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:56:27 CDT http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33198765/ Students need to do their part to help curb binge drinking and its consequences, says Linda Major, who leads efforts to reduce high-risk drinking at UNL. The university's program is often mentioned as one of the most effective college efforts because it attacks the problem from multiple angles ... Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:52:55 CDT http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/10/02/evidence-points-to-remarkably-warm-period-in-antarcticas-history.html UNL geoscientist David Harwood and colleagues from around the world now have proof of a sudden, remarkably warm period in Antarctica that occurred about 15.7 million years ago and lasted for a few thousand years ... Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:23:04 CDT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/nyregion/25terror.html?pagewanted=2&p&_r=2&ref=nyregion UNL chemist Gerard Harbison said that TATP has long served as the poor man's explosive, a white crystalline solid that is relatively easy to make but is unstable and shock sensitive. It is used by groups that do not have access to other explosives ... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:39:29 CDT http://www.kansas.com/news/story/983590.html UNL agronomy professor Bruce Anderson says teff looks worthwhile as a forage crop -- cut for hay without bothering to harvest the seed ... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:26:20 CDT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/fashion/24chanel.html?_r=1&8dpc UNL English professor Rhonda Garelick, author of a forthcoming Chanel biography, “Antigone in Vogue," argues in an interview that Chanel represents “a very American rags-to-riches story ... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:45:30 CDT