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| 09/30/2008 |
UNL earns $8.1 million NSF grant for nanotechnology research centerThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received an $8.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and its nanotechnology research through 2014. UNL's center focuses on quantum… |
09/30/2008 |
| 09/29/2010 |
UNL earns $4M in grants to improve Nebraska math, science educationThe National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln two grants totaling more than $4 million to support improved mathematics and science education in Nebraska schools that need it most. The grants are through NSF's Robert … |
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| 09/4/2007 |
UNL earns $3 million grant to launch robotics curriculum for schoolsA bevy of small robots will roll into the nation's schools to help children learn engineering, math, science and technology, thanks to a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer and electronics enginee… |
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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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| 01/21/2015 |
UNL drillers help make new discoveries in AntarcticaUsing a hot-water drill and an underwater robotic vehicle designed, built and operated by a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering team, scientists have made new discoveries about Antarctica's geology and biology. … |
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| 01/20/2015 |
UNL doctoral student first to quantify color change in spidersA wasp descends onto the yellow petals of a black-eyed Susan, unaware that a camouflaged crab spider – once as white as a wedding dress, now the color of a school bus – lies in wait. Nectar-filled flowers serve as lethal hunting grounds for thes… |
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| 07/11/2006 |
UNL doctoral candidate wins top survey research scholarshipAt the American Statistical Association's Presidential Awards ceremony on Aug. 8, Mario Callegaro a doctoral candidate in survey research and methodology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be awarded the association's 2006 Edward C. Bryant … |
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| 08/15/2012 |
UNL discovery has implications for finding life on Earth, MarsMoqui marbles, unusual balls of rock that can be found rolling around the southwestern U.S. sandstone regions, were formed roughly 2 million years ago with the help of microorganisms. This discovery by a University of Nebraska-Linc… |
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| 03/11/2009 |
UNL dining halls to begin trayless diningIn an effort to reduce food waste, improve environmental impact and bring down costs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln dining halls will convert to a trayless system in late March. The decision to eliminate trays in the five campus dining halls was ma… |
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| 08/11/2010 |
UNL digital scholars net major grant for Civil War-era explorationsThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln has earned a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand its digital research on Civil War-era Washington, D.C., especially its pivotal role in the antislavery and civil rights movements. T… |
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| 11/28/2006 |
UNL Digital Commons becomes 4th-largest university electronic archiveThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Digital Commons has grown in size to become the fourth-largest open access repository among U.S. research universities, according the Registry of Open Access Repositories. With more than 15,040 theses, dissertatio… |
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| 09/1/2004 |
UNL Depth-Reporting Students to Tackle France, Franco-U.S. RelationsWith the goal of shedding light rather than heat on the status of the relationship between the United States and its oldest ally, students and faculty members from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications will … |
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| 06/17/2010 |
UNL depth-reporting students studying in BoliviaWith the goal of training a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry, 10 students and two faculty members from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism and Mass Communications head to Bolivia on a 10-day de… |
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| 08/25/2006 |
UNL dedicates new world-class laser laboratoryThe University of Nebraska-Lincoln unveiled a new world-class laser today that officials said is helping position Nebraska as a leader in high-field physics and laser research. The Diocles laser has the potential for reaching the highest light intens… |
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| 12/20/2005 |
UNL dedicates new Cather CollectionsTwo new collections on Willa Cather have been dedicated at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, bringing the total number of Cather collections in the UNL Libraries to 11. According to UNL Libraries officials, that makes UNL the world's cent… |
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