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Featured below are Nebraska Engineering faculty, staff and students who have received recent recognition.
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- Five members of the College of Engineering are among 11 individuals from UNL appointed as admirals in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska – the state’s highest honor - for their hand sanitizer production collaboration. https://engineering.unl.edu/five-nebraska-engineering-among-11-honored-state-hand-sanitizer-production-effort/
- Lily Wang and her research connecting academic performance with acoustics, lighting and air quality is featured in the “She’s a Scientist” series on KOLN/KGIN TV. https://www.1011now.com/video/2021/08/30/she-scientist-lily-wang/
- Santosh Pitla will receive the ASABE A.W. Farrall Young Educator Award. https://ianrnews.unl.edu/ianr-s-pitla-wins-national-education-award
- Daniel Linzell was quoted in an Aug. 12 Washington Post article on the June condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2021/pool-deck-condo-collapse/
- Nebraska Today’s Pocket Science features Xu Li, team sampling wastewater at ZIP code scale to help isolate COVID hotspots. https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/covid-68512-sampling-wastewater-at-zip-code-scale-may-help-isolate-hotspots/
- Xu Li was quoted by NBC News regarding contaminated water in home swimming pools https://www.nbcnews.com/shopping/lifestyle/best-inflatable-pools-n1273346#anchor-Inflatablepoolsandwatersafety
- Derek Weitzel, Holland Computing Center, is part of a team developing a new cyberinfrastructure system with a NSF grant. https://cse.unl.edu/hcc-co-develop-new-cyberinfrastructure-system-new-nsf-grant