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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

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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

Ruiguo Yang (seated) and Jung Yul Lim have received a three-year, $439,584 grant from the National Science Foundation grant to work on understanding how linked individual cells communicate with each other as they respond to physical changes in their shared environment.

Cell communication study may spur medical advances

February 4, 2019

Science & Technology

Jim Lewis talks during the Nebraska Summit on Math and Science Education at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Lewis has been named the university's first director of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Lewis named director of STEM education research initiatives

January 4, 2019

Science & Technology

Researchers and students of James Schnable, assistant professor of agronomy and horticulture, take measurements of the growth and health of plants in the Greenhouse Innovation Center at Nebraska Innovation Campus. Schnable is part of a $3.9 million NSF-funded project that aims to develop crops that more efficiently use fertilizer.

Researchers aim to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use

November 28, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nebraska-Tuskegee collaboration to expand minority opportunities in materials science

November 1, 2018

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Society & Culture

University of Nebraska - Lincoln seal and columns

July 24 talk offers NSF funding insights

July 20, 2018

Rezaul Mahmood (left), co-leader of the GRAINEX project, talks with a student and co-leader Eric Rappin (right) of Western Kentucky University.

Husker-led research team to examine irrigation's role in precipitation

July 11, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

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