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Bruce Grewcock (right), chairman and chief executive officer of Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc., joined University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green and College of Engineering Dean Lance C. Pérez to announce the company's $20 million gift
Bruce Grewcock (right), chairman and chief executive officer of Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc., joined University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green and College of Engineering Dean Lance C. Pérez to announce the company's $20 million gift

Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc., partnership powers Nebraska Engineering forward

Announced today, a gift of $20 million from Peter Kiewit Sons', Inc. is a substantial contribution to an $85 million engineering facility to be named Kiewit Hall, which will serve as the College of Engineering's academic hub.

More details at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/kiewit-partnership-powers-nebraska-engineering-forward/
 

IN THE NEWS: Research in the spotlight

With an insect-inspired approach and more than $500,000 from the National Science Foundation, Nebraska's Fadi Alsaleem and colleagues think they can lower power consumption by as much as 100-fold in wearable technology that detects falls among the elderlyIn this edition, Fadi Alsaleem develops power-saving tech to incorporate in a fall-detecting wearable device, and a paper written by Christos Argyropoulos, asst. prof. of ECE, and grad student Boyuan Jin is published in Advanced Optical Materials. Continue reading…

 

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Originally published September 17, 2019 - Submit an Item