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James Schnable, Rebecca Roston and Toshihiro Obata hold young sorghum plants outside of the Bioscience Greenhouses on City Campus.

Husker researchers aim to help crops survive cold snaps

January 26, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Mohammad Ghashami, Assistant Professor Mechanical & Materials Engineering, is a CAREER winner.

Excess heat to power electronic devices?

April 14, 2023

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Ten researchers pose in front of palm trees.

Team looks to increase resilience of food systems to climate shocks

April 4, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Members of the Field-Nets research team pose in a soybean field on East Campus with their millimeter wave radios with phased-array antennas. The researchers (from left) are Santosh Pitla, Qiang Liu, Yufeng Ge, Christos Argyropoulos and Mehmet Can Vuran.

Project aims to boost ag tech through improved field connectivity

November 7, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Clementine Ewomsan, a member of the STEM-POWER Research Program’s 2022 summer cohort, works with Yuguo Yang, a graduate student in biological sciences, during her summer research appointment.

NSF grant expands efforts to retain underrepresented STEM students

October 12, 2022

Science & Technology

Eight people work in The Combine Incubator.

Nebraska U joining NSF Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub

September 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Man and woman walking on tree-lined sidewalk

Research strolling into further understanding energy requirements of walking in older adults

July 22, 2022

Science & Technology

(From left) Nebraska’s Scott Sattler, Tomas Helikar and Joe Louis stand among sorghum plants.

Husker team leads effort to help sorghum defend itself from aphid attacks

June 21, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Wei Bao

New device gets scientists closer to quantum materials breakthrough

June 17, 2022

Science & Technology

Joseph Yesselman, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which he will use to develop the first computational model that can reliably predict RNA’s capacity to form tertiary contacts.

Yesselman creating model to study RNA, gamify scientific learning

March 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and graduate student Niaz Bahar Chowdhury have created a genome-scale metabolic model for the corn root to study its nitrogen-use efficiency under nitrogen stress conditions.

Researchers study corn root growth under nitrogen-poor conditions

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment