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Faculty Early Career Development Program

Jack Jeffries, assistant professor of mathematics at Nebraska, has earned his department’s first-ever Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation. He will use the $400,000, five-year grant to advance his research in commutative algebra.

Jeffries' CAREER award bolsters Nebraska's mathematics expertise

April 7, 2021

Science & Technology

Catherine Eichhorn, assistant professor of chemistry at Nebraska, will use a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to develop a clearer picture of the structure-function relationship in RNA and ribonucleoproteins, or RNPs, which are RNA-protein complexes. She’s focusing her work on 7SK RNP, a key player in regulating gene expression.

Eichhorn’s CAREER project to take in-depth look at structure, function of RNA

January 14, 2021

Science & Technology

Limei Zhang, assistant professor of biochemistry at Nebraska, has earned a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to advance her research on a protein within the tuberculosis bacteria.

Nebraska biochemist explores role of proteins in health

September 3, 2019

Science & Technology

Joe Louis, Harold and Esther Edgerton assistant professor of entomology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has earned a five-year, $1.5 million Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research into helping sorghum naturally resist sugarcane aphids.

Study of sorghum-munching aphids earns NSF award

April 17, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Michael Sealy holds examples of implants that can be made using the 3D metal printers available in the College of Engineering. Sealy, an assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is designing magnesium-based implants — screws, pins, plates — that degrade in the body over time. This would eliminate the need for follow-up surgeries to remove the implants and mitigate the aches that permanent implants can cause.

Award bolsters Sealy's study of 3D printing for medical devices

April 9, 2019

Science & Technology

Rebecca Wachs, assistant professor of biological systems engineering, earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award to support her development of a non-opioid treatment of back pain

NSF award supports first-of-its-kind back pain study

March 12, 2019

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Rebecca Roston, assistant professor of biochemistry, holds a pea plant outside the Beadle Hall greenhouses. Roston, who recently earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award, is studying how more than 30 species of plants respond to freezing.

NSF award boosts Roston’s research into freeze-tolerant crops

March 7, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Bonita Sharif, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Nebraska, is using eye-tracking technology to analyze how software programmers work in order to develop tools that help them write code better and faster. She has earned a $432,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to fund the research and related student workshops.

Sharif eyes how to help software developers write better code

February 25, 2019

Science & Technology

Toshihiro Obata, assistant professor of biochemistry at Nebraska, is investigating a key component of metabolic regulation that will improve scientific understanding of metabolism and the many ways it can go awry. He has earned a five-year, nearly $750,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research.

Award bolsters Obata's research into metabolic missteps

February 18, 2019

Science & Technology

Xu Li, assistant professor of civil engineering, recently received a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation.

NSF award aids Li's antibiotic resistance research

January 29, 2014