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| 03/19/2013 |
UNL engineering students in NASA's Robo-Ops contestIf you think parallel parking a car is difficult, try navigating a robotic vehicle through an obstacle course when you're 900 miles away from the scene. After conquering that, you might be ready for NASA work: helping a rover remotely conduct scienti… |
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| 03/22/2011 |
UNL engineering students experiment with NASA in Microgravity U.A team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students will travel to Houston's Johnson Space Center to conduct research for NASA that will have them floating on-board reduced gravity missions, March 31 through April 9. The team was chosen in… |
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| 10/12/2011 |
UNL engineering professor leads free Innovation Seminar SeriesAn Innovation Seminar Series at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will offer free sessions providing tools to foster creativity and new thinking approaches. Shane Farritor, professor in mechanical and mater… |
10/18/2011 |
| 06/14/2007 |
UNL engineer wins prestigious NSF CAREER awardUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln civil engineer Yong-Rak Kim has won a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. CAREER is one of NSF's most prestigious and competitive grant programs. The awards are given to junior f… |
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| 03/8/2011 |
UNL engineer places in Navy challenge, earns $100,000 for researchA University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer's idea is among the top 10 winners in the U.S. Department of the Navy's national Chief of Naval Research Challenge. Ming Han, assistant professor of electrical engineering, will receive $100,000 for his rese… |
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| 01/24/2008 |
UNL engineer outlines 'nano-Velcro's' potentialCreating a so-called "super nanocomposite" that can revolutionize a range of products is the dream of materials scientists. So far, that's proved elusive. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer shares that big dream but said he thinks using nanoma… |
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| 03/7/2013 |
UNL engineer aims to reduce blood vessel stent complicationsEach year, more than a million Americans receive stents to prop open clogged heart arteries and other blood vessels, but many are at high risk for suffering reblockages. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineer's research may help… |
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| 11/21/2011 |
UNL electrical engineering doctoral student wins national research honorJuan A. Colon Santana, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln electrical engineering doctoral student, has been recognized at the national level for research excellence. The American Vacuum Society has awarded him the 2011 Falicov Prize … |
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| 06/16/2015 |
UNL education professor earns national public policy awardResearch has many purposes, but one of its highest callings is to influence public policy. For the impact his anthropological research has had on public education policy in Mexico, University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor Ted Hamann has been honored… |
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| 02/15/2012 |
UNL economics professors team with publisher on all-digital courseIntroductory economics courses at colleges and universities will soon be taking a giant step forward in the digital age. McGraw-Hill Higher Education and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are developing the first fully digital curricul… |
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| 11/20/2008 |
UNL economics professor Rosenbaum earns national teaching awardDavid Rosenbaum enjoys teaching. He delights in the way students become engaged in their learning, and he marvels at watching them become excited about new ideas. "To me teaching boils down to a very thoughtful process of how you get students engage… |
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| 12/10/2004 |
UNL Economics Department ranked 2nd worldwide in education researchA recently published book on economic education has cited the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Economics for excellence in economic education scholarship. In "Shaping the Learning Curve: Essays on Economic Education," edited by Franklin G… |
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| 06/24/2015 |
UNL earns Innovation and Economic Prosperity University designationThe Association of Public and Land-grant Universities today designated the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University, recognizing UNL's strong commitment to economic engagement. The designation acknowledges u… |
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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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| 09/28/2010 |
UNL earns grant for renovations to expand laser research capabilitiesThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received nearly $2 million in federal stimulus funds from the National Science Foundation for renovations to expand its high-power laser research capabilities. The $1,825,345 grant will enable UNL to renovate t… |
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