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Nebraska Innovation Studio welcomes 2026 fellows to transform their ideas into functional prototypes
Program leadership said they narrowed the four Innovation Fellows from over 50 applicants. The cohort members are building innovations in such areas as secure communications, crop research and genetics and measuring blood flow for surgeries.
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After interim role, Cheryl Horst now guides UNL tech transfer as executive director of NUtech Ventures
NUtech Ventures works with researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to protect and license their innovations for commercial use. As funding gets tight, Horst leads a greater focus on entrepreneurship and industry relations.
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Omaha nonprofit partners with UNL students to design small, aging-ready homes to address housing crisis
Partners for Livable Omaha launched the OurStory Small Houses project in 2024. Students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Architecture FACT design-build studio contribute ideas and gain hands-on industry experience through the initiative. Leaders say the program can inspire replicable accessible housing solutions.
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As AI supercharges cyberattacks, new UNO Cyber Matrix initiative aims to build up Nebraska’s security workforce
The new cyber range and physical classroom space is modeled off of real cybersecurity teams at Nebraska companies. With a custom chatbot as part of the curriculum, MATRIX looks to make students, interns and upskilling workers industry-ready and able to handle fast-changing security challenges.
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Invest Nebraska and wider ecosystem help teams of UNL students raise $100k each for their early startups
The investments are made in support of the Startup Studio capstone program offered through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Students, organizers and community supporters describe the impact of the collaboration in launching career ambitions and retaining talent in the state.
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With tough times for farms, agtech adoption is no easy task. But at a new UNL conference in Gothenburg, startups and farmers see potential
The Spur AgConverge event served as a launch event for Spur Ventures, a new entrepreneurship hub to better connect producers with innovation. In centering farmers, the event dug deeper into the pitfalls and opportunities for agtech on Nebraska agriculture’s home turf.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln moves up in global rankings for its entrepreneurship programming
The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur ranked 50 schools worldwide for their undergraduate programs aimed at early entrepreneurs, and UNL has moved up to 35th place. UNL leadership said this momentum reflects faculty mentorship and the importance of community support.
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Inaugural conference seeks to connect ag tech startups with local producers
The Spur AgConverge 2025 conference will take place Nov. 24 in Gothenburg. The event gives university and industry stakeholders opportunities to network, share innovations and support local farmers. The conference will be the official launch of a new entrepreneurial initiative from UNL — Spur Ventures.
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UNMC announces new Office of Industry Engagement to bring funding and stability amid federal woes
The office will be tasked with streamlining how researchers work with industry partners as part of a larger strategy to bring in stable revenue. Traditionally, UNMC is reliant on federal funding through science agencies like the National Institutes of Health.
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UNMC takes first steps in treating autoimmune disorders with a therapy originally used for cancer
CAR T-cell therapy uses re-engineered immune cells to attack diseases. After proving its effectiveness on cancer patients, it is now being explored as a treatment for autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis. Nebraska Medicine and University of Nebraska Medical Center doctors treated the first patient in this new trial earlier this year.