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Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts News

Emerging media arts senior Ella Benson's "Nesting" is an official selection in the Cinemorphia Animated Film Festival.

EMA senior has film in Cinemorphia Animated Film Festival

February 25, 2026

The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film will be holding its Open Studios event on Friday, Dec. 12 from 5-8 p.m. in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts. File photo.

Carson Center Open Studios event is Dec. 12

December 1, 2025

UNL ranked No. 35 worldwide in the latest Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine list of the Top Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Programs. The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts is one of five programs that drive the university’s success in this area.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln ranked No. 35 worldwide in entrepreneurship

November 13, 2025

Screenshot from “MuMu: Worlds of Connection,” an extended reality experience about network science. It is a study of complex connections, allowing users to investigate how an apple farm thrives when humans, plants animals and technology coexist in balance.

Nebraska team creates XR experience to reveal life’s interconnections

November 12, 2025

Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Dan Novy will be a communications officer in the upcoming analog astronaut mission in Armash, Armenia, in October.

Novy selected for analog astronaut mission

September 29, 2025

Isaac Cortes (back row, fourth from right) with other Infosys interns after a game of soccer on the Infosys Mysore campus. Courtesy photo.

EMA students intern with Infosys

August 26, 2025

The exterior of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts building at dusk.

44 students selected for new Carson Center cohort

August 25, 2025

Kathryn Christensen at the Television Academy Foundation. She received an internship and will be The Walt Disney/FX Original Programming intern at the Fox Studio Lot in Century City, California. Courtesy photo.

Christensen selected for Television Academy internship

June 13, 2025

Noah Trumble, Annette Foreman and Owen Strazdas present their project titled "Mossense" at the Biodesign Challenge at the Carson Center this spring. Courtesy photo.

EMA students to compete in Biodesign Challenge

May 28, 2025

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Acclaimed film producer Gale Anne Hurd to visit Lincoln March 28

March 14, 2025

Ash Eliza Smith guides a robotic arm in the Speculative Robotics Lab. (Deann Gayman/University Communication and Marketing)

Speculative Robotics Lab invites public to imagine future of care

March 13, 2025

Nebraska’s (from left) Guy Trainin, Megan Elliott, Sam Bendix, Lindsey Clausen and Kristen Friesen worked on a project for Global Citizen called Media Stamped. The program is designed to teach pre-teens about online media literacy and how things like social media can affect the brain and behavior. The team created curriculum guides for the project.

Huskers help youth navigate online media landscape

March 7, 2025