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Katrina Jagodinsky, Rosowski associate professor of history, works with undergraduate researchers Kasha Appleton and Natalie Lucas.

Jagodinsky nets NSF funding for new REU exploring legal history

April 25, 2022

Society & Culture

Ruiguo Yang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is using a $540,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to explore how cell-cell bridges respond to strains of different magnitudes and rates.

Yang advancing work on cell-cell junctions and their link to human health

April 12, 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

The traveling exhibition “Real People, Real Climate, Real Changes” will be on view from March 14 through May 13 on the second floor of Love Library North.

Love Library to host traveling climate exhibition

March 8, 2022

Kathryn Holland, assistant professor of psychology and women’s and gender studies, is using a National Science Foundation grant to study how two institutions of higher education are implementing federal guidelines that address sexual violence on campus.

Holland’s research aims for survivor-first approach to reporting sexual violence

February 21, 2022

Wei Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a five-year, $756,713 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to support his work to make quantum simulators function at room temperature.

Bao aims to make quantum systems function at room temps

February 16, 2022

Science & Technology

The campus entrepreneurship program begins Feb. 7, 2022, and participants may sign up individually or in teams of up to five people by Feb. 3.

Applications open for campus entrepreneurship program

January 7, 2022

Ilya Kravchenko, Daniel Claes, Frank Golf and Ken Bloom are members of Nebraska’s Department of Physics and Astronomy who collaborate with partners at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Their work involves CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, an image of which is behind the researchers in this photo.

Husker team takes leading role at CERN's Large Hadron Collider

December 6, 2021

Science & Technology

Aerial photo of sorghum being grown under two nitrogen conditions at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Havelock Farm in summer 2021. The photo was taken using an unoccupied aerial vehicle, which is employed for high-throughput phenotyping.

Husker team gains momentum toward developing nitrogen-efficient crops

December 1, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Nebraska’s David Harwood answers a question from Jackson Belva during a Geology 125: Frontiers in Antarctic Geosciences course. The class is based on Harwood’s experience in Antarctica. He returns this season as a principal investigator in the National Science Foundation-funded SALSA project.

Harwood to help lead new Antarctic drilling project

November 29, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology