Joe Luck won the Educator/Researcher of the Year Award from the PrecisionAg Institute at its InfoAg Conference in St. Louis, Missouri, July 25-27.
At the ASABE annual meeting in Spokane from July 15-19, he received the 2017 Larry W. Turner Young Extension Professional Award. Continue reading…
At the 2017 ASABE conference, Curtis Weller received the PEI Professional Engineer of the Year award for championing agricultural and biological engineering licensure and value-added processing of agricultural commodities. Continue reading…
Huskerbots, the UNL robotics team led by Santosh Pitla and Yufeng Ge, placed second at the ASABE international competition in Spokane last week. Students on the team--Abbas Atefi, Cheetown Liew, Piyush Pandey, Lukas Renker, Hesan Sedaghat, and Jenny Wynn--competed against 18 other teams.
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UNL's Fountain Wars team, advised by Derek Heeren and David Mabie, took second place at the ASABE competition last week. Continue reading…
Ph.D. student Nuwan Wijewardane took third place in the Boyd Scott graduate student paper competition at the ASABE meeting in Spokane, July 16 to 19. The title of his paper/presentation was “An Integrated VNIR Penetrometer System for High Resolution Vertical Soil Sensing.”
Anna Siebe placed first in the undergraduate poster competition at the ASABE annual meeting July 16-19, 2017, in Spokane, Washington.
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UNL's quarterscale teams that won at the International Quarter-Scale Tractor Student Design Competition in Peoria, Illinois, June 2-5 were also recognized at the ASABE annual meeting.
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George Meyer and Ellen Paparozzi, agronomy and horticulture professor, hosted the annual meeting of horticulturists and biological systems engineers from nine universities, June 29-30. Continue reading…
Master's student Naisargi Dave has picked up a hobby uncommon to her home country of India: ice skating. She will demonstrate techniques on August 6 at 8:45 a.m. during a competition at the John Breslow Ice Hockey Center, 433 V Street. Continue reading…
Bill A. Stout, UNL Hall of Fame member, received the first Lalit and Aruna Verma Award for Excellence in Global Engagement at the ASABE conference July 16-19, 2017. Continue reading…
8/1 Office staff and supervisors meeting, 3 p.m.
8/1 to 8/4 UBT available at Nebraska East Union every day from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. to meet with staff and students
8/2 Birthday coffee, 10 a.m.
8/6 Naisargi Dave performs skating techniques at John Breslow Ice Hockey Center at 8:45 a.m
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