UNL News Releases: Research
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| 10/22/2009 |
Software grant to boost ANDRILL's research, teaching, outreach effortsA grant from Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. will enable the ANDRILL (Antarctic Geological Drilling) Science Management Office at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to offer more resources to the Antarctic geosciences community. The three-year, $727,0… |
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| 10/1/2009 |
ANDRILL research indicates remarkably warm period in Antarctica 15.7 million years agoBATON ROUGE, La., USA, Oct. 1, 2009 -- Researchers with the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program (ANDRILL) found unexpected evidence of a remarkably warm period in Antarctica 15.7 million years ago. The evidence includes fossils of marine algae and… |
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| 09/24/2009 |
EPA funding to advance water and energy technologies researchThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $1.25 million to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction to work on Advanced Decentralized Water/Energy Networ… |
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| 09/23/2009 |
UNL study: Younger black women more likely to have regular doctor, feel cared forYounger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women and women of other ethnic groups, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study shows. Meanwhile, far few… |
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| 09/23/2009 |
Physics Today cover, article examine rare quantum physics effectThere's nothing University of Nebraska-Lincoln physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or quantum, world, where the laws of physics are different from … |
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| 08/20/2009 |
Study: Contrary to conventional wisdom, parents OK with homework loadToday's youngsters are buried under homework, which gobbles up free time that could be spent with family or friends. Parents, puzzled whether to help their children dig out from a pile of books or allow them to carry on alone, are frustrated by the t… |
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| 08/18/2009 |
Researcher: Businesses can survive recession by capitalizing on positivityLayoffs. Pay cuts. Hiring freezes and mandatory furloughs. The economy's effect on the average employee has been profound in the last year. In such an environment, staying upbeat on the job can be difficult. That's why University of Nebraska-Lincoln… |
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| 08/10/2009 |
Biologists identify the molecular basis of high-altitude adaptation in miceBiologists have long known how adaptive evolution works. New mutations arise within a population and those that confer some benefits to the organism increase in frequency and eventually become fixed in the population. A significant challenge for evo… |
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| 08/5/2009 |
UNL graduate student receives NASA Earth and Space Science FellowshipUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln geosciences graduate student David Peterson has received a prestigious $90,000 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship, which will fund three years of doctoral research. Peterson, who will finish his master's degree in… |
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| 08/3/2009 |
NASA awards grants to 2 UNL facultyThe NASA Nebraska Space Grant and EPSCoR office at the University of Nebraska at Omaha has announced that two University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors have been awarded NASA EPSCoR grants of $750,000 each. NASA EPSCoR received 50 proposals from acro… |
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| 07/17/2009 |
Grant of nearly $10 million to support national rural education centerThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a grant of nearly $10 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to establish the National Center for Research on Rural Education, the only one of its kind in the Un… |
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| 07/6/2009 |
Knops' research on invasive species shows nitrogen cycling is keyBiologists know that when plants battle for space, often the actual battle is for getting the nitrogen. Now, research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln gives important new information on how plants can change "nitrogen cycling" to gain nitrogen … |
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| 06/30/2009 |
Forecast: Nebraska to be spared from worst as economy 'resets'While the U.S. economy is showing signs of recovery, the chances of a rapid nationwide economic recovery, of the kind that typically follows a recession, are slim, a report by the Nebraska Business Forecast Council shows. Instead, the economy is lik… |
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| 06/29/2009 |
Laser-created temporal lens could lead to movies of molecular processesFinding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been a holy grail among physicists. That ability could open the door to a wide range of applications in ultrafast electron microscopy used in a large array of … |
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| 06/17/2009 |
Study discovers clues into how eyes searchLike the robots in the "Terminator" movies, our eyes move methodically through a scene when seeking out an object. If we don't immediately find what we're searching for, our attention leaves the already-scanned area behind and moves on to new, unexpl… |
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