LINCOLN — The University of Nebraska officially launched the search last week for the next chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, with an initial eye toward internal candidates across NU.

NU President Dr. Jeffrey Gold, the last permanent UNMC chancellor before becoming NU president in July 2024, announced that it will form a search committee. It will consist of representatives from UNMC, Nebraska Medicine, other NU campuses and the community.

Dr. Dele Davies has served as interim chancellor since Gold became president. 

LINCOLN — Gov. Jim Pillen’s administration, facing scrutiny for a no-bid emergency contract with a lobbyist to whom he steered more than $2 million in state money, has again changed its story about how and why the contract was awarded.

A governor’s spokeswoman tells the Examiner that agricultural tech CEO Julie Bushell had already been helping the state, free of charge, boost a federal grant application in the waning days of the Biden administration, so it made sense to award the formal contract to her once lawmakers approved the funding for it.

LINCOLN — The Nebraska chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has launched its first federal lawsuits on behalf of migrants at McCook’s so-called “Cornhusker Clink,” which opened a few months ago as an ICE regional detention center.