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Leaders of research projects that have earned the first Grand Challenges Catalyst awards are (from left) Katie Edwards, Tomas Helikar and Kees Uiterwaal.

Edwards, Helikar, Uiterwaal lead first Grand Challenges grants

August 30, 2022

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Oleh Khalimonchuk

Team reveals surprising details of crucial energy-producing enzyme

August 17, 2022

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Husker biochemist Ed Cahoon, wearing a white labcoat and blue gloves, holds a tray of test tubes in a laboratory.

Research shows oilseeds’ potential for bioproduct creation

August 3, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Nathlita Karlney, a senior at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, works with a petri dish sample in the gut biology lab at Nebraska's Food Innovation Center.

IANR program expands undergrad opportunities for science, ag study

July 28, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Herbie Husker walks the Tunnel Walk route in Memorial Stadium after morning practice.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for July 8

July 8, 2022

(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

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Tomas Helikar, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of biochemistry, will use a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award program to advance his work on a virtual immune system aimed at increasing the understanding of immune-related diseases and ramping up the speed and efficiency of drug development.

Virtual immune system roadmap unveiled

May 20, 2022

Science & Technology

Bowen Yang, a graduate student studying bioinformatics, gives a presentation during the first-ever Student Research Days Slam on April 13. He was the audience's choice for winner, earning a $500 prize.

Students share research, life lessons in Slam presentations

April 19, 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

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High school student Holly Podliska (center) and Husker undergraduates Daniel Ngu (left) and Conner Pederson (right) gather maize root microbiome samples in 2017. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s new Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates program will give students 10-week summer research experiences and scientific communication and leadership training.

Grant will fund ‘Crop-to-Food Innovation’ undergraduate training program

February 18, 2022

Tomas Helikar, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of biochemistry, will use a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award program to advance his work on a virtual immune system aimed at increasing the understanding of immune-related diseases and ramping up the speed and efficiency of drug development.

Husker researcher takes another step toward virtual immune system

February 7, 2022

Science & Technology

Students framed in circles created by the campus sculpture "Balanced/Unbalanced Wheels No. 2."

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Oct. 8

October 8, 2021