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| 08/20/2009 |
Study: Contrary to conventional wisdom, parents OK with homework loadToday's youngsters are buried under homework, which gobbles up free time that could be spent with family or friends. Parents, puzzled whether to help their children dig out from a pile of books or allow them to carry on alone, are frustrated by the t… |
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| 10/15/2010 |
UNL researchers to track technology, find best tool to aid policeIncreasingly popular smart cell phones and other mobile Global Positioning Service-enabled devices have made life easier for countless people. Now, University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers are ready to study whether police can use those tools to do… |
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| 08/1/2011 |
'Exceptional drought' record for United States set in JulyThe percent of contiguous U.S. land area experiencing exceptional drought in July reached the highest levels in the history of the U.S. Drought Monitor, said an official at the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.… |
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| 10/29/2014 |
'Groundwater Atlas of Lancaster County, Nebraska' availableAfter two years of research, writing and editing, the first edition of "The Groundwater Atlas of Lancaster County, Nebraska" is complete and available to the public. "The atlas is based almost entirely on a … |
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| 11/30/2011 |
'Home on the Range,' anti-Semitism, vigilantism in Great Plains QuarterlyIn the fall issue of Great Plains Quarterly, an academic journal published by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, researchers wrote about the search for the author of "Home on the Range," anti-Semi… |
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| 09/10/2014 |
'Human touch' nanoparticle sensor could improve breast cancer detectionUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based device that emulates human touch and that could significantly enhance clinical breast exams for early detection of cancer. In a n… |
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| 12/12/2012 |
'Nebraska Ice' leads to 3 more discoveries"Nebraska Ice" is the discovery that just keeps on giving for chemist Xiao Cheng Zeng and his research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Modeled by Zeng's lab in 1997 and confirmed by laboratory re… |
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| 10/16/2014 |
'Wearable technology' curriculum aims to fuel interest in STEMSensor-embedded shirts. Bluetooth-enabled shoes. Camera-equipped glasses. The age of "wearable technology" has arrived, and with it a potential avenue for engaging elementary students in the STEM fields of s… |
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| 09/2/2005 |
$1.2 million follow-up grant to support drought-monitoring workA $1.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency awarded to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will help maintain and improve on a system tracking drought and other climate conditions in the United States. The gra… |
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| 09/2/2004 |
$1.8M NIH grant to fund study of children's speech motor developmentAdapting a computer technology developed by Hollywood, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln speech scientist is hoping to learn how very young children's motor development affects their speech and language. Jordan Green, associate professor and Corwin Mo… |
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| 08/9/2005 |
$12.9 million ANDRILL grant to fund U.S. Antarctic research effortsThe National Science Foundation has awarded a $12.9 million Antarctic research grant to a consortium of five U.S. universities headed by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. The grant supports an ambitious in… |
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| 02/4/2008 |
$2 million grant funds UNL research to help bridges last longerUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering researchers aim to find ways to make the nation's bridges last longer and to design new ones that last a century or longer with funding from a new $2 million grant. With support from this four-year grant fro… |
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| 08/9/2012 |
$3.5 million grant to help special-needs teens avoid being 'lost in the system'Teenage kids "kind of get lost in the system." They're almost adults, and not really needing to be protected like babies or young children -- or so it may seem. Special education researcher Alexandra Trout o… |
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| 09/14/2010 |
$3.8 million contract will fund biological process for HIV microbicideWith $3.8 million in new funding from the Mintaka Foundation of Medical Research supported by the Wellcome Trust, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Biological Process Development Facility is developing a process to manufacture a stable and affordabl… |
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| 12/14/2009 |
$8 million in stimulus funding goes to UNL for Morrison additionThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has been awarded $8 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Institutes of Health to expand the Ken Morrison Life Sciences Research Center, home to the Nebraska Center for Virology. The grant from NIH's … |
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