This Week, June 18 - 22, 2012
UNL team to compete in first Formula SAE competition
Students in the College of Engineering will compete their first Formula SAE race car event June 20-23 at the Lincoln Airpark. Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE, also known as SAE International). The competition was started back in 1978 and was originally called SAE Mini Indy.
This is also the first of five years UNL will host a national Formula SAE competition. The event features 81 colleges and about 1,400 students from six countries. Read more about this competition in Today@UNL.
UNL alumnus speaks June 21 on Engineering Gene Networks
Hasan Otu--a Nebraska Engineering alumnus who is chair of the Department of Bioengineering at Turkey's Bilgi University--will speak Thursday, June 21 at 3 p.m. in SEC 237. His topic is bioinformatics in life sciences, specifically with a systems biology approach.
Otu's talk, hosted by the UNL Department of Electrical Engineering, will begin with an overview of how technological advancements have made life sciences an information-centric field due to the large amounts of data produced. Bioinformatics has emerged as a new field using ideas from engineering, physics, mathematics, and computer science to solve problems that arise in life sciences. Read more about this talk.
Update: Li returning to U.S.
David Wilson, senior international officer for Academic Affairs, released this statement today:
"We learned late on June 19 that Professor Weixing Li has called his family to say he will be returning to the U.S. as soon as flight arrangements can be made. We have no further details, and our attempts to reach him have been unsuccessful. We are glad he is safe." Read more in Today@UNL
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DiMagno's startup earns NSF funding
Ground Fluor Pharmaceuticals, a Lincoln-based medical imaging products company founded in part by UNL's Stephen DiMagno, has received a $150,000 Small Business Innovative Research award from the National Science Foundation.
The award — designed to stimulate commercial application of NSF-supported research results — allows Ground Fluor to develop and provide novel-imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) scans. PET is used mainly to study patients with cancer, heart disease and neurodegenerative disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases. Read more about this startup in Today@UNL.
Security breach may have included employee data
On Wednesday night, May 23, a security breach of the Nebraska Student Information System, the university-wide student information system, was detected. NeSIS contains Social Security numbers and date of birth for all employees. When the initial announcement was made Friday evening, it was unclear that employee data was included.
At this time, we have no direct evidence that this information was downloaded and we have no reports of identity theft stemming from this breach. We are working with an outside security firm to help analyze the level of risk of personal information being misappropriated and to make recommendations for any additional safeguards that are needed. Read more details and find other resources about this security incident in Today@UNL.
UNL launches Nebraska App
UNL has launched the Nebraska App, a suite of mobile applications that makes essential university resources available on mobile devices. Students can check grades, access course content and browse the course catalog. They can access the public directory and get in touch instantly, keep tabs on Husker sports, find places on the campus map, stay informed with the latest campus news, watch videos, and even listen to podcasts of popular lectures in iTunesU.
"UNL is moving services to the where the students are in terms of devices and network access"," said Mark Askren, Chief Information Officer. "Students now have a much more powerful connection to UNL via their mobile device." Read more about Nebraska App in Today@UNL.
