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UNL News Releases: Research

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10/27/2006
Bureau survey: Most rural labor forces growing despite population decline
It's no secret that most of Nebraska's rural counties have been losing population in recent decades, but a recent study of census data by Randy Cantrell, extension professor with the University of Nebraska Rural Initiative, shows that more than half …
11/9/2006
UNL alumnus Keasling named Discover Scientist of the Year
University of Nebraska-Lincoln alumnus Jay Keasling, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering and a synthetic biologist now at the University of California, Berkeley, was named Scientist the Year by the international science magazine Di…
12/11/2006
Self-assembling nano-ice discovered at UNL; structure resembles DNA
Working at the frontier between chemistry and physics, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng usually finds his reward in discovering the unexpected through computer modeling. Zeng and his colleagues regularly find new and often unantic…
12/13/2006
Researchers included in Discover magazine's top 100 science stories
For the second time in three years, University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members figure in two of Discover magazine's top 100 science stories of the year. The magazine ranked ecological research that involved biologist Johannes "John" Knops as the …
12/18/2006
Nebraska Forecast Council: Steady economic growth foreseen through '09
The Nebraska Forecast Council is optimistic about the Nebraska economic outlook heading into 2007, with aggregate farm income, manufacturing growth, employment growth and total nominal income growth predicted to increase in 2007, and continue growing…
12/19/2006
ANDRILL project breaks Antarctic drilling record, reaches 1,000 meters
The Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program drilled to a new record depth of 1,000 meters below the seafloor from the site on the Ross Ice Shelf near Scott Base in Antarctica Dec. 16. The depth made ANDRILL the most successful Antarctic drill…
12/20/2006
Family scientist studies impact of violence on Israeli, Palestinian families
Preliminary findings of a study of Israeli and Palestinian families who lost children to political violence show similarities in family functioning, said a family scientist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. But some faith-based differences also …
12/21/2006
Work on gene-silencing machinery could help fight viral, other diseases
Newly published research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Plant Science Initiative expands understanding of RNA interference -- a process that silences genes and holds promise in combating disease. A research team led by biologist Heriberto Ce…
01/4/2007
New research indicates climate instability at end of last ice age
As 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…
02/12/2007
UNL researchers featured at upcoming AAAS annual meeting
Three University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers will give presentations Feb. 16-18 at the largest science research conference in the United States: the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Christopher Fielding, …
02/16/2007
03/27/2007
Nebraska research on marmoset paternity leads to genetic discovery
Research at the University of Nebraska sheds light on how a pre-birth genetic exchange between marmoset twins plays a part in parenting behavior among these tiny New World monkeys. Writing in the March 26-30 online edition of the Proceedings of the N…
04/3/2007
Study: Larger strike zone, drug testing reduced hitting in baseball since 2000
After baseball's offensive explosion of the late 1990s, Major League Baseball's batters cooled off beginning in the 2001 season, and a statistical analysis by two University of Nebraska-Lincoln historians offers data to back up two theories for the c…
04/23/2007
Nebraska reps head to international bioscience convention May 6-9
In Nebraska, research on nanoparticle sensors with sensitivity rivaling human fingers could give robots a delicate sense of touch. A computer-aided orthopedic surgical system could enable surgeons to do faster, less invasive, more precise bone cuttin…
05/6/2007
05/16/2007
Project award to UNL will aid lighting-design education
Kevin Houser, associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Charles W. Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, has obtained funding for a five-year project to "Create an Alliance to Nurture Design in Lighting Educatio…
05/24/2007
Researchers at UNL and Madonna to partner in rehabilitation study
University of Nebraska-Lincoln psychology professor Will Spaulding has received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate with Madonna Rehabilitation Center and a number of other partners in research on the links between psychiatr…

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