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| 07/11/2007 |
UNL would receive bioenergy facility funds under appropriations billThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln would receive $2 million to establish a pilot-scale bioenergy research facility under a recommendation in the 2008 Senate energy and water appropriations bill. Research conducted at the pilot plant will focus on dev… |
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| 07/26/2007 |
Increases in ag income, related industries predicted; Nebraska outlook goodNebraska's aggregate farm income is expected to grow rapidly in the remainder of 2007 and into 2008-09, giving the Nebraska Business Forecast Council optimism for the Nebraska economy. The strength in the commodity sector and related industries like … |
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| 08/16/2007 |
UNL external funding increases to nearly $172 million in 2006-07External funding for University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored programs again hit new levels this year, according to the UNL Office of Research and Graduate Studies. UNL's total sponsored programs funding, which includes funding for research and other… |
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| 08/20/2007 |
Buffalo Bill, artists, poets discussed in Great Plains QuarterlyIn the summer issue of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Quarterly, researchers wrote about how William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill) helped save the American bison from extinction, how Henry Worrall encouraged settlement in Kansas in the 18… |
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| 08/27/2007 |
UNL Redox Biology Center receives $10.8 million from NIHThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a $10.8 million competitive renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health to support the Redox Biology Center through 2012. An interdisciplinary partnership between UNL and University of Nebraska… |
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| 09/4/2007 |
UNL earns $3 million grant to launch robotics curriculum for schoolsA bevy of small robots will roll into the nation's schools to help children learn engineering, math, science and technology, thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer and electronics enginee… |
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| 09/14/2007 |
UNL earns grant to digitize historical Nebraska newspapersNebraska newspaper coverage of historical events and everyday life from 1880 through 1910 is going digital -- part of a free national online database -- thanks to a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Th… |
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| 10/1/2007 |
2nd ANDRILL season seeking 'Rosetta Stone' for climate historyWhen the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program begins its second drilling campaign this month, scientists will be looking for a "Rosetta Stone" in their sediment cores that will tie together decades of paleoclimate research in Antarctica and the rest… |
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| 10/9/2007 |
Climate research gives clues to human expansion out of tropical AfricaNew research that involves a University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientist has shed light on an important, but previously little-understood period in Africa's climate history that has implications for understanding human evolution and the expansion of Hom… |
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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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| 11/8/2007 |
UNL's Snow part of group discovering source of highest-energy cosmic raysFor nearly a century since cosmic rays were first discovered in 1912, scientists have puzzled over their source, particularly of the most powerful cosmic rays. Now, after more than 3 1/2 years of data collection at the nearly completed Pierre Auger O… |
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| 11/22/2007 |
Dunes, climate models don't match up with paleomagnetic recordsFor a quarter-century or more, the prevailing view among geoscientists has been that the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted more than 1,300 miles north during a 100-million year s… |
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| 11/28/2007 |
ANDRILL's 2nd Antarctic drilling season exceeds all expectationsA second season in Antarctica for the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program has exceeded all expectations, according to the co-chief scientists of the program's Southern McMurdo Sound Project. One week ago (Nov. 21), the drilling team passe… |
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| 12/3/2007 |
Lincoln eighth-graders get real with bullying: Film production combines UNL research, Australian producerLogline: When Dinah moves to a new middle school she quickly engages the wrath of Nicole -- because of a boy. Nicole's dislike is evident in small behaviors, then escalates into full-fledged harassment: rubbing powdered deodorant on Dinah's gym cloth… |
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| 12/11/2007 |
Researchers to investigate biodiversity in the Gobi vertebrate parasite projectResearchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are set to explore the hidden biodiversity of the isolated mountain range in the heart of Gobi Gurvan Saikhan National Park in southern Mongolia. The project is funded by a $620,000 grant from the N… |
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