Highlights from the Nebraska Engineering community who have received recent media recognition include:
FACULTY AND RESEARCH
- Abdelghani Laraoui is warming (slightly) ultracold environments in hopes of finding a way to make quantum computing more efficient, accessible and feasible. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231019/mme/laraoui_expandqise/
- Leen-Kiat Soh receives NSF grant to expand automated decision-making research. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231013/soc/soh_nsf_grant/
- Creating hybrids of defects in nanowires, Eli Sutter and Peter Sutter seek to 'tune' new avenues in electronic technology. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231011/sutter_hybrid_dislocation/
- Shudipto Dishari’s NSF grant supports research to make green energy greener and more efficient by creating polymers from Christmas trees and discarded corn plant parts. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231020/chme/dishari_nsf_lignin/
- Kelly Kopocis is chosen to the 22-member committee that will assist in the search of the NU System's ninth president. https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/regents-appoint-presidential-search-committee-schedule-public-listening/
- Shane Farritor discusses the surgical robot he co-developed and its mission to space with President Ted Carter on the Oct. 6 Husker Football Halftime Show. https://nebraska.edu/president/husker-halftime?audioID=D3F155F8646D4AA5B305390BC937EA7E
- Raikes School senior Luke Farritor gains international attention for winning contest to develop a way to read a scroll charred by the Vesuvius eruption nearly 2,000 years ago. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231018/farritor_vesuvius_scroll/
If you know of someone who has been featured in the media, contact Karl Vogel – kvogel2@unl.edu – so it can be included in future editions.