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| 03/9/2004 |
UNL Biological Development Facility to Work on Valley Fever VaccineLincoln, Neb., March 9, 2004 -- The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Biological Process Development Facility, directed by Michael Meagher, professor of chemical engineering, will begin work on process research and development to produce a vaccine for… |
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| 05/24/2010 |
Sandoz, Cather, campus scandal in Great Plains Quarterly spring issueIn the spring issue of Great Plains Quarterly, a scholarly journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, researchers wrote about domestic violence in Mari Sandoz's "The Tom-Walker," land maps in Willa… |
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| 07/20/2006 |
UNL scientists link wind shift, medieval mega-drought in SandhillsToday, Nebraska's Sandhills, a region of gently rolling sand dunes blanketed with prairie grasses and wetlands that cover a quarter of the state, provide ideal habitat for wildlife and livestock. During medieval times 800 to 1,000 years ago, however,… |
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| 03/26/2015 |
62 UNL students receive stipends for summer research projectsThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded stipends to 62 undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer. UNL's Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program supports undergraduates to wor… |
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| 01/4/2007 |
New research indicates climate instability at end of last ice ageAs carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere continue to rise, new geological evidence suggests the planet could begin to experience climatic instability unlike anything seen in the last 34 million to 40 million years. Writing in the Jan. 5 issue o… |
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| 10/30/2007 |
Study challenges belief on growth-reproduction tradeoffA long-held assumption among biologists is that plants face a tradeoff between growth and reproduction. If they grow a lot, they have few resources left for reproduction, and vice versa. But new research based on a 13-year study indicates that's not … |
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| 02/3/2016 |
UNL report: Nebraska must be proactive in climate action planNebraska needs to be proactive in developing a climate action plan in response to current and projected changes in climate, a new University of Nebraska-Lincoln report suggests. The report shares the findings from eight roundtable discussions on the… |
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| 07/18/2008 |
Strategic Discussions for Nebraska reports on immigration as first topicImmigration issues in Nebraska are varied and complex, but many Nebraskans are receiving incorrect information on the topic from myths disseminated through talk shows and the Internet, according to information published in Strategic Discussions for … |
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| 07/17/2009 |
Grant of nearly $10 million to support national rural education centerThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a grant of nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to establish the National Center for Research on Rural Education, the only one of its kind in the Un… |
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| 12/21/2009 |
Moriyama's focus on developing bioinformatics tools earns stimulus grantScientific advances in areas as diverse as medicine and agriculture often require finding specific snippets of DNA within an organism's vast genetic information -- and University of Nebraska-Lincoln biologist Etsuko Moriyama is working to develop too… |
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| 09/13/2010 |
Study: Teasing about weight can have big effects on pre-teensSchoolyard taunts of any type can potentially damage a child's sense of self-confidence. But a new study suggests that a particular kind of teasing -- about weight -- can have distinctive and significant effects on how pre-teens perceive their bodies… |
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| 05/7/2015 |
UNL agronomists spearhead standards for using crop dataAn international team led by UNL researchers has published the first systematic guidelines for using data to more reliably simulate crop yields. The guidelines could apply to any crop model used for estimating gaps between potential vs. actual yield… |
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| 06/18/2015 |
UNL research: Devoted parents key to developing world-class talentIt takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice for a person to become a world-class talent in a given field, or so said writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 2008 book. It also helps to have intensely dedicated parents, according to a new study by University of… |
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| 09/17/2015 |
Physicists defy conventional wisdom to identify ferroelectric nanomaterialA team of physicists has defied conventional wisdom by inducing stable ferroelectricity in a sheet of strontium titanate only a few nanometers thick. The discovery could open new pathways to find new materials for nanotechnology devices, said Alexei… |
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| 11/20/2015 |
New issue of Great Plains Research focuses on climate changeAccording to projected climate changes, Nebraska will see an increase in extreme events such as drought, heat waves and heavy precipitation in the future. Understanding how to address these problems now is vital not only for the future of Nebraska, b… |
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