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| 12/22/2004 |
Discovery of new type of dust leads to new quasar ideasIn a paper published in the Astrophysical Journal, a team of astronomers led by Martin Gaskell of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced that they have detected evidence of a previously unlooked-for type of microscopic interstellar dust. Gaskel… |
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| 03/22/2005 |
Scientists model 'Lord of the Nanorings'It's possible that no one gets more use out of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's PrairieFire supercomputer, than Xiao Cheng Zeng and his collaborators. In the past five years, they have used PrairieFire to model a list of previously unknown nanosc… |
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| 04/1/2005 |
UNL, UNMC engineers, surgeons develop unique surgical toolOne of the problems with being an ergonomist is that one notices badly designed things and has an overwhelming urge to fix them. At least, that's how Susan Hallbeck feels. An associate professor of industrial engineering at the University of Nebraska… |
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| 04/14/2005 |
UNL team wins $3 million to study thin diamond film technologyA University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer is leading a team of engineers from UNL and the University of Missouri-Rolla on a project to refine a process that coats surfaces with thin diamond films. The team has received a three-year grant exceeding $… |
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| 04/25/2005 |
Great Plains Research publishes new studies on the environmentMammals and their relationship to the environment and evidence of previous droughts in the Plains are discussed in the 2005 spring issue of Great Plains Research, a publication of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Linc… |
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| 06/9/2005 |
Education key to hazardous weather safety, UNL researcher saysNebraska's severe weather awareness week passed in March, and since then parts of the state have been hard hit by hail, wind, torrential rains and tornadoes. However, as exemplified by the May storms in the Hastings-Grand Island and other areas this … |
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| 07/19/2005 |
CROP project to set up large cosmic ray air shower experiment July 21Participants in this week's Cosmic Ray Observatory Project workshop at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will set up a large cosmic ray air shower experiment on UNL's City Campus July 21 as the culminating exercise in the weeklong workshop. Startin… |
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| 08/2/2005 |
Student discovers Sandhills species' life cycles affect parasite relationshipA hypothesis by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln doctoral student that western Nebraska amphibians' host-parasite cycle is shortened because of lack of biodiversity in the Sandhills environment led to an award-winning research paper. Matthew Bolek, a… |
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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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| 09/1/2005 |
UNL entomologist names largest fossil scarab beetleA fossil of a scarab beetle has been identified by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln entomologist as the world's largest known scarab fossil and represents a new genus and species. Oryctoantiquus borealis was officially named in June by Brett C. Ratcl… |
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| 09/2/2005 |
Turtle species named after museum collection manager CornerA species of turtle discovered in 1971 has been named after George Corner, collection manager of the division of paleontology at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Corner discovered the species, Terrapane corneri, as a graduate student in 197… |
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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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| 10/6/2005 |
Nebraska Center for Virology gets $10.6 million NIH grantOne of Nebraska's premier research centers has received a second multi-million dollar grant from the National Institutes of Health. The Nebraska Center for Virology has received $10.6 million, which will support the center over the next five years. … |
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| 10/24/2005 |
Live, gold-dusted bacteria used in bioelectronic deviceRavi Saraf has gilded living creatures, but that's as far as his resemblance goes with Auric Goldfinger, the fictional villain in the 1964 James Bond movie. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemical engineer used bacteria, not another human, and hi… |
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| 11/10/2005 |
UNL Drought Research Gets $7.4 Million from USDAMore than $7 million in new federal funding will finance further refinement of University of Nebraska-Lincoln-based Web tools to help agricultural producers and others nationwide to monitor drought impacts and manage its risks. One partnership agree… |
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