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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

Leen-Kiat Soh, Wendy Smith, Mindi Searls and Brittany Duncan

Project aims to smooth STEM students’ path from 2-year to 4-year institutions

July 5, 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

Iverson

Iverson aims to advance study of nanotubes in diagnosing diseases

April 28, 2022

Science & Technology

Aaron Haake

Haake, 6 alumni receive NSF grad research fellowships

April 27, 2022

Science & Technology

Six University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded professorships from the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.

Six faculty earn professorships

April 25, 2022

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