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Thanks to grants from the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska, eight UNL students are working on projects to contribute to a more water and food secure world.

Applications sought for water research project in Czech Republic

February 15, 2016

Science & Technology

Registration continues for NU FEWS workshop

February 1, 2016

Conference to focus on undergraduate women in math

January 27, 2016

Savanna McDonald (far left), a senior physics major, demonstrates the principles of a gyroscope during a science, technology, engineering and mathematics exposition in Jorgensen Hall during the Science Olympiad National Tournament in May. UNL has received a three-year NSF grant to help meet the growing need for middle and high school science teachers.

NSF grant funds scholarships for future science teachers

October 12, 2015

NU FEWS targets food, energy, water nexus

October 9, 2015

Receipents of the 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program from UNL are (from left) Tasneem Bouzid, Abigail Riemer, William Jamieson and Tyler Corey.

Graduate students earn NSF fellowships

October 8, 2015

David Sellmyer

UNL wins $3.5M NSF grant for nanoscience center

September 16, 2015

Xiaoshan Xu, assistant professor of physics, has earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation. The award will further Xu's research into a nanomaterial that could make electronics smaller, faster and more energy efficient.

NSF award boosts Xu's nanomaterials research

September 15, 2015

Aug. 17 briefing focuses on food, energy, water funding opportunities

August 10, 2015

Heriberto Cerutti, Zhen Wang, Jean-Jack Riethoven and Chi Zhang. Wang is holding a tray of the plant species (Arabidopsis thaliana) studied by the researchers.

Study reveals mechanisms of plants' drought response

June 29, 2015

Alexander Sinitskii

NSF award aids Sinitskii’s nanoribbon research

June 8, 2015

Patrick Dussault, professor of chemistry, leads an organic chemistry lecture. Dussault has earned a three-year National Science Foundation grant to examine new methods of synthesizing ethers.

NSF grant to support new paradigm for ether creation

May 28, 2015