In the News, July 17, 2023.
In the News, July 17, 2023.

Highlighting the Nebraska Engineering community receiving recognition in the media.

FACULTY AND RESEARCH

  • Justin Bradley and Benjamin Riggan discuss their work with robotics and artificial intelligence and their part in a new Netflix docuseries in the Complete Engineering Podcast. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygBt_FHjE4w
  • Multidisciplinary teams find new ways of harnessing possibilities of quantum realm. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/230706/laraoui_equate_papers/
  • Research by Kazi Albab Hussain, a doctoral student in civil engineering, and colleagues found that microplastics are released in huge quantities from plastic containers when they’re microwaved. https://go.unl.edu/hzwx
  • Tami Brown-Brandl is featured in a Morning AgClips article on more producers, industries interested in precision livestock farming. https://go.unl.edu/bdvm
  • UNL’s Pocket Science features Rebecca Wachs’ research that found two compounds that shorten the length of nerve fibers are often implicated in back pain. https://go.unl.edu/hxt6
  • Durham School researchers and alumni are featured in a Midlands Business Journal article on the development of “game-changing” acoustical engineering technology. https://go.unl.edu/a69k

COLLEGE NEWS
  • An InsideHigherEd.com article focuses on STEM CONNECT, a UNL scholarship program formed with a $3.5 million grant from NSF to support low-income students pursuing careers in STEM. https://go.unl.edu/srhn
  • David Jones reflects on his tenure as head of Biological Systems Engineering. https://go.unl.edu/ik6n
STUDENTS

ALUMNI
  • Mark Pohl says OPPD internship program gave him valuable experience before he earned a Nebraska Engineering degree. https://go.unl.edu/imay
  • Though Vicente Villanueva left the Philippines to earn an engineering degree in 1910, Nebraska Quarterly reports, his lineage carries on. https://go.unl.edu/sxh7

If you know of someone who has been featured in the media, contact Karl Vogel – kvogel2@unl.edu – with the information.