![Smart thermometers are being used to help predict COVID-19 outbreaks.](https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/files/file137690.jpg)
The College of Engineering and its faculty and staff gaining notice:
- Fadi Alsaleem is featured in Omaha World-Herald article about using app-connected thermometers to help predict COVID-19 outbreaks: https://omaha.com/livewellnebraska/nebraskans-to-use-app-connected-thermometers-to-help-predict-covid-19-outbreaks/article_5c45dd26-51e8-5b6d-90c4-8831f03e386c.html
- Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and Xu Li are part of a multi-campus collaboration among University of Nebraska System faculty that has found antibiotics used in human treatment in agricultural water systems near Fremont and Lincoln watersheds: https://www.unmc.edu/news.cfm?match=26112
- Hendrik Viljoen and his team have partnered with Streck to develop cutting-edge thermal cyclers that more quickly provide results from DNA sample testing: https://omaha.com/sponsored/made-in-nebraska-streck-partnered-with-unl-to-develop-cutting-edge-biotech/article_e71008ff-12c4-5f85-b8b3-a28e88fe1ab4.html