University of Nebraska

A University of Idaho livestock genetic scientist is part of an initiative that was recently awarded $1.9 million from the USDA to promote collaboration among plant and animal genomic researchers.  The U of I’s Brenda Murdoch will join researchers from Iowa State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the Agricultural Genome to Phenome Initiative, which was launched three ago as par

Researchers say up to a third of Americans are not getting the proper sleep their bodies and brains need. The CDC say it's a national public health problem , and in the opinion of one expert, "it's essentially another pandemic." Susan Harris is a nurse and sleep expert with University of Nebraska Extension ...

So, what’s the rate of investment for higher education in food and agriculture?   “The internal rate of return on investments in this sector if you look at a media kind of level across all of those studies, something in the order of 65% on investments in these areas.”   That w...