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Eric Markvicka, Krohn Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, displays the wearable monitoring device he is helping develop. The device is attached to his undershirt.

New device would help those with chronic conditions get timely treatment

November 6, 2024

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Sangjin Ryu, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, often uses examples of anime - such as a clip from “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” - to teach engineering principles to both his students and to general audiences in lectures.

As 'Professor Otaku,' Ryu uses anime to illuminate engineering lessons

September 27, 2024

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Adam Erickson adjusts a large, complex microscope.

Nebraska breakthrough opens door to next-gen electronics

September 18, 2024

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For the first week of the trip, students stayed at Kobe University, where they learned about research in the agricultural sciences.

Three Huskers focused on summer research in Japan

June 14, 2024

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Eric Markvicka (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, holds a tray of liquid metal samples while graduate student Ethan Krings works on a sample at right.

Federal award supports Markvicka's work on soft materials for robotics, stretchable electronics

April 22, 2024

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Rendering of a stretchable component essential to a wearable ultrasound device

Liquid metal may point way to wearable ultrasound devices

March 22, 2024

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Craig Zuhlke, George Gogos and Graham Kaufman pose with the Leybold ultra-high vacuum laser surface processing and materials analysis system in the Engineering Research Center.

Nebraska U's new laser to facilitate manufacturing method of the future

November 29, 2023

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Laraoui and team improve performance of quantum computers

November 6, 2023

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Rendering of crisscrossing arteries

Normal blood flow may stabilize plaque, lower odds of cardiac events

October 31, 2023

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The face of Stephen Morin appears in a honeycombed array of tiny lenses that he holds between gloved fingers

Husker chemists, engineers craft adjustable arrays of microscopic lenses

October 20, 2023

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Take this 30-minute workshop to learn how to create dynamic Libraires Course Materials lists for your classes in Canvas.

11 projects funded through Grand Challenges competition

August 28, 2023

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Kazi Albab Hussain holds his son while removing a plastic container from a microwave

Nebraska study finds billions of nanoplastics released when microwaving containers

July 21, 2023

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