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Warren Buffett, class of 1951, once said, “accounting is the language of business.” This workshop gives students a holistic understanding of accounting significance in life and business and enables them to think like a CEO. Utilizing interactive activities, career insights, and practical demonstrations, students get a taste of why the famous Nebraskan investor and business leader is correct. 

An actuary manages risk for insurance companies, hospitals, banks, and more. Students who enjoy mathematics, statistics, and collaboration often find great satisfaction in this line of work. In this workshop, students assess the risk of automobile insurance policies through a hands-on activity. 

Professional development opportunities for agricultural education and skilled and technical sciences teachers from the Department of Agricultural Leadership Education and Communication. 

Nebraska AgrAbility helps individuals with disabilities overcome barriers to continue in their chosen agricultural profession.

Resources and tools from and compiled by Nebraska Extension to help ag producers after a disaster.

All Things Nebraska is a free, online platform designed to support decision makers in accessing, analyzing, and visualizing data about their communities. Our goal is to provide up-to-date, quality data across sectors to our stakeholders. From business and industry, nonprofits, governments, researchers, and Extension staff, All Things Nebraska is a place for you to find data. Our data can help Nebraskans better understand community needs, allocate resources, and make more data-informed decisions.  

Since 2002, America Reads and America Counts work-study program, housed in the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarship, has partnered with the Lincoln Public School District to provide tutoring resources for elementary schools. UNL America Reads and America Counts program annually employes 100 students to engage in the community, thus enabling the program to reach over 1,000 youth per month. Tutors assist elementary school children, kindergarten through 5th grade, in reading and mathematics. The America Reads and America Counts program offers UNL undergraduate students an opportunity to mentor, educate, and invest in children within the community through one-on-one and group tutoring. Data from the Lincoln Vital Signs Report show that in 2020-21, third-grade ELA proficiency among LPS elementary students was 55%, compared to 50% of Nebraska public school students statewide.

Humans aren’t the only animals that manipulate ecosystems. Animals that are found in wetlands engineer the habitat around them to create shelter, gather food, and raise their young. Learn about the amazing engineering feats of animals in Nebraska’s wetlands! 

Our mission is to connect individuals with aphasia to individuals in the community to enhance social involvement and understanding of the strengths of individuals with aphasia. Ultimately, we hope this program builds lasting social relationships.

Backyard Farmer is a television program dedicated to helping you find solutions to your lawn and garden questions. Every year, our panel of experts answer gardener's questions related to insects, turf and weeds, rots and spots, landscapes, vegetables, and critters, as well as landscape design and general horticulture topics.

The Backyard Farmer Garden on UNL’s East Campus is a must see for anyone interested in cultivating a green thumb and embracing sustainable living. There are educational workshops on Thursday mornings during the growing season. This charming garden offers a hands-on experience in organic farming practices, making it an ideal destination for both novice gardeners and seasoned horticulturists. 

This digital badge is an online platform that will immerse learners in the wonderful world of bacteria and the overall discipline of bacteriology. Leaners will learn that bacteria are very different from us but follow the general principles of life like other organisms. Bacteria have evolved incredible strategies to thrive and survive in many different environments including non-living surfaces, and other living organisms. In this course, you will appreciate how bacteria can exhibit distinct lifestyles. Lessons include general concepts that are shared among groups on bacteria as well as explorations into detail strategies that particular groups of bacteria use to adapt to distinct environments.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Barkley Speech Language and Hearing Clinic provides services for individuals with speech, language, hearing, and balance impairments. Clinic providers serve all ages and address a broad range of disorders.

Purchase local honey directly from the Bee Lab in 2oz, 8oz, 12oz, 3lb, 5lb, 12lb jugs, and 50 lb buckets. Funds from honey sales go directly into bee research and graduate student enrichment.

This course is completely available online and is designed for beef producers, feed consultants, veterinarians, and youth wanting to learn more about beef production.  This course has been updated by extension faculty and individuals in the beef industry.  The course will be of benefit to cattlemen that are currently in the beef business or for those that are just getting started. 

UNL Extension NebGuides and Extension Circulars provide research-based information that addresses specific topics and also gives examples of how that research can be applied. Topics include beef cattle nutrition, breeding, herd health, marketing, range management, forage crop systems, and by-product feeds. 

This toolbox brings together resources for beef producers on topics such as finances, weather, genetic selection, feed, and quality assurance. 

The Bee Lab offers hive health inspections and personalized on-site consultations for more diagnostic support and to help troubleshoot problems with your hives.

The Bee Lab team of experts help provide a variety of education offerings to our local community, schools, and other educational organizations to provide targeted education that focus on bees, pollinators, and conservation science literacy for any audience, from Pre-K to professional seminar presentations. 

Each year, the UNL Bee Lab provide workshops for Year 1, Year 2 and advance beekeepers. It is a great opportunity to learn factual and research-based practices, walk away with workbooks and reliable information, tools, and credible connections in the beekeeping community. 

The Better Process Control School provides training to processors of shelf-stable, low-acid and acidified foods to help assure their safety. It satisfies requirements for supervisors operating under FDA regulations.