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  • UNL Dairy Store pays tribute to new UNL President with 'Heart of Gold' ice cream flavor

    Macy Byars, Nebraska News Service|Oct 2, 2024

    With its handmade ice cream and prime location at the entrance to East Campus, the Dairy Store is a crowd favorite at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and a fitting venue for welcoming a university president. The Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources hosted an event Sept. 19 at the Dairy Store to unveil an ice cream flavor created in honor of the new University of Nebraska-Lincoln president, Jeffery Gold. Dairy industry leaders and university partners who provide product t...

  • How musicians can use psychology for effective practice

    Macy Byars, Nebraska News Service|Nov 10, 2022

    Practicing music is not everyone’s forte, but psychology may help. A study published in June suggests that musicians practice more effectively when given information about the psychology of practice. UNL professor Robert Woody, who has a doctorate in music education, conducted the study with 100 undergraduate music students to see if using cognitive psychology skills in their practice made it more efficient. “It’s hard work, and so I do like to teach people how to make practice more tolerable and how to make it more efficient so that they...