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UNL News Releases: Research

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06/15/2015
UNL engineers study how Pilger tornado destroyed buildings
Using a high-tech laser scanner and a drone, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln civil engineering professor and his graduate students analyzed the wreckage after a tornado ripped through the town of Pilger, Neb., nearly a year ago. The tornado killed …
06/9/2015
UNL engineers use 'shock tube' to find greater impacts of blast waves on brains
By accounting for a rush of blood to the head, University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have found that blast waves from concussive explosions may put far greater strain on the brain than previously thought. The researchers have authored a study exa…
06/9/2015
Polls: Rural, urban Nebraskans split on community views
Metropolitan and nonmetropolitan residents don't always see eye to eye when it comes to attributes of successful communities and well-being, according to recent polling by the Nebraska Rural and Metro Polls. The Nebraska Rural Poll sampled residents…
06/8/2015
UNL chemist wins NSF award for nanoribbon work
Graphene has garnered much attention for its potential to improve electronics, solar cells and other devices. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist is using his breakthrough graphene production technique to put the promising nanomaterial to the te…
06/5/2015
May survey: Nebraska businesses particularly optimistic about jobs
Nebraska businesses continue to have a very optimistic outlook for sales and employment over the next six months, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Although overall re…
06/4/2015
UNL student helps fine-tune next generation of weather satellites
University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate student Thomas Polivka has publicly identified a flaw in new satellite remote sensing technology that monitors temperatures on Earth. The flaw Polivka found has to do with how data from the sensor detectors ar…
06/1/2015
Study signals risk factors for gang involvement among Native youths
Over the last three decades, street gangs have seeped into rural areas -- including Native reservations, where youth gang involvement has been steadily rising since the 1990s. In a recently published study, UNL sociology graduate student Dane Hautal…
05/29/2015
UNL team receives grant funding to improve low-moisture food safety
A team from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a portion of a $5 million USDA food safety grant to enhance low-moisture food safety by improving development and implementation of pasteurization technologies. UNL will receive $943,617 ove…
05/28/2015
UNL study: Honey bee behavior altered by insecticides
Certain insecticides common to U.S. orchards appear to make honey bees substantially less busy, according to a new study led by UNL entomologists. Released just days prior to a May 19 White House report calling for greater protection of pollinators,…
05/26/2015
NSF grant to support new paradigm for ether creation
University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemist Patrick Dussault has earned a three-year National Science Foundation grant to explore new methods for synthesizing the class of chemical compounds known as ethers. The compounds, which feature an oxygen atom si…
05/21/2015
NSF grant helps preserve parasite collections
A $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation will allow the Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology to digitally preserve four major collections of parasite specimens donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln during the past five yea…
05/15/2015
Leading indicator: Improving outlook for Nebraska businesses
A sharp increase in Nebraska's leading economic indicator suggests that the state's economy will grow strongly during the second half of 2015. After a solid first quarter, the indicator leapt by 1.99 percent in April. It is the biggest increase of t…
05/14/2015
UNL researcher: Questions still outnumber answers on bullying
A leading researcher says remedies for school bullying remain elusive, although four decades of study have yielded many more clues to its devastation. "Our interventions, which have mainly focused on punishment, school suspensions and expulsions, ha…
05/8/2015
April survey: Nebraska businesses report record optimism
Nebraska businesses are very optimistic in their outlook for sales and employment over the next six months, according to a monthly survey conducted by the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Nearly one in four respon…
05/7/2015
UNL agronomists spearhead standards for using crop data
An international team led by UNL researchers has published the first systematic guidelines for using data to more reliably simulate crop yields. The guidelines could apply to any crop model used for estimating gaps between potential vs. actual yield…

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