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UNL News Releases: Research

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02/14/2011
Collaboration leads to discovery, confirmation of unexpected form of ice
Water is the most abundant liquid on Earth, but the more scientists study it, the more surprises they seem to find. That's nowhere more true than with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. A pioneer in the study…
05/18/2011
Kiowa photographer Poolaw is focus of spring Great Plains Quarterly
In the spring 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 Kiowa photographer Horace Poolaw and his contributions to American Indi…
09/15/2011
Study: When it comes to college student 'hookups,' more is said than done
College students talk about hooking up – a lot. In fact, they talk about it much more than it actually happens, and they believe other students are having the encounters more often than they actually are, as a new study shows. The research from th…
05/24/2012
Northern Cheyenne ag, Nebraska suffrage, beekeeping in GP Quarterly
In the spring 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 construction of the Northern Cheyenne Reservatio…
02/1/2012
Political biology: The left rolls with the good, the right confronts the bad
From cable TV news shows to red-meat speeches on the campaign trail, our nation's deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national issues, while liberals say fear-mo…
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…
10/4/2012
UNL researchers studying sleep habits of toddlers, effects on development
ZZZs don't always come easy for children still learning their ABCs. Accordingly, a research team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is studying the developmental implications of toddlers' sleep habits -- …
02/18/2013
UNL physicist discusses high-order harmonic generation at AAAS
One-billionth of a billionth of a second. That's the scale -- an attosecond -- at which scientists seek to image and control electronic motion in matter. The principle of attosecond s…
08/16/2013
Nebraska economic indicator dips in July, stepping back from June's gain
Following a strong increase in June, the Leading Economic Indicator for Nebraska declined by 1.05 percent in July, according to economists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Business Administration. …
05/15/2013
Study: Young men who feel body shame less hopeful about relationships
It's no longer just Barbie dolls that evoke a sense of unattainable beauty. Now, it seems G.I. Joe's biceps and six-pack abs are doing the same. Increasingly, objectification and heightened masculinity in images of men is saturatin…
10/30/2013
ANDRILL mobile drill project is a go after government shutdown ends
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will send a team of drillers to Antarctica in the 2013-14 season after all, albeit with the team reduced to five members and with plans to operate one drill instead of two. …
01/23/2014
Doctor's office -- not Internet -- still main source for infertility information
For a woman worried about why she hasn't become pregnant, the Internet and its anonymity might seem an appealing way to learn about infertility. Yet a newly published study involving University of Nebraska-L…
04/1/2014
Students leverage Nebraska Lit Lab to gain digital insights on Cather
How closely does the narration of Willa Cather's novels match the personal voice in her private letters? Which unsigned and pseudonymous newspaper and magazine articles did Cather pen during her journalism career? And did Cather's …
06/11/2014
Study tracks changes in social status, affiliation in religion
Younger generations are closing the social class gap between evangelical Protestants and mainline denominations, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist of religion has found. And in what appears to be …
08/7/2014
The best in the U.S. for entrepreneurship: Where does your state rank?
Fueled by its ongoing energy boom, North Dakota remains at the top of an annual list measuring states' ability to create new businesses. Created by economists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the State…

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