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16 faculty earn campus awards for teaching

March 28, 2016

UNL engineer Jinsong Huang holds a crystal that can detect significantly smaller doses of X-rays than materials used in leading commercial detectors, as reported in a new study published by the journal Nature Photonics.

New crystal is four times more sensitive to X-rays

March 22, 2016

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will travel to Uganda over spring break to complete a social entrepreneurship project to assist an organization known as Kinawataka Women Initiatives.

Students will use spring break to help Ugandan women

March 18, 2016

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UNL featured a number of ranked colleges and programs in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Graduate Schools 2017.

U.S. News ranks grad programs among nation's best

March 16, 2016

Terri Norton, associate professor of architectural engineering and construction, has received a six-month Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant. She will use the award to examine how Japan recovered from a devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011.

Fulbright expands Norton's disaster debris research

March 8, 2016

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Dmitry Oleynikov, a UNMC professor of surgery, operates a surgical robot as in the background Shane Farritor, a UNL engineering professor, adjusts the camera on the surgical subject in June 2015. The two developed the robot for minimally invasive surgeries. Farritor and Oleynikov's startup company, Virtual Incision, announced March 1 the first use of its miniaturized robot in human surgery.

Virtual Incision mini-robots conduct first known human surgery

March 1, 2016

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Liyan Qu, assistant professor, electrical and computer engineering, ecently earned a five-year, $500,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.

NSF grant boosts Qu's smart power grid research

February 26, 2016

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Nebraska hosts Women in Science conference

February 18, 2016

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Spring career fairs kick off

February 16, 2016

Team creates elastic materials that gleam when stretched

February 2, 2016

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Achievements | Honors, awards, publications for Jan. 29

January 29, 2016

Chris Tuan, professor of civil engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, stands on a slab of conductive concrete that can carry enough electrical current to melt ice during winter storms. Tuan is working with the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Strategic Command on multiple applications for his patented concrete mixture.

De-icing concrete could improve roadway safety

January 22, 2016

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