Highlights from the Nebraska Engineering community who have received recent media recognition:
COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY NEWS
- Heartland Robotics Cluster and Mid-America Transportation Center-TSE grants help UNL set new research activity records. https://go.unl.edu/e3y7
FACULTY AND RESEARCH
- Yufung Ge, Santosh Pitla and David Jones lead team aiming to launch first center for space agriculture. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231106/bse/space2/
- Joe Turner, research team employ a new technique to learn how plant cells respond to environmental changes. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231103/mme/turner_stomata/
- Shannon Bartelt-Hunt and Mohammed Hasan were among the featured presenters at Nebraska Research Days, Nov. 6-10. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231110/research_days/
- Ryan Pedrigi, Morgan Schake, and Nebraska Engineering colleagues show that normal blood flow may stabilize plaque, lower odds of cardiac events. https://go.unl.edu/3b7z
- Joe Luck and Hongfeng Yu were among UNL faculty working on the third phase of an initiative to create a national network of agricultural data repositories. https://go.unl.edu/boxe
- Aemal Khattak participates in collaboration to promote climate resilience through outreach to Native tribes and women owning farmland. https://go.unl.edu/kfiv
STAFF
- Ashley Dohe, an Air Force veteran, built a Herbie Husker from papier-mâché to benefit vets and first responders. https://engineering.unl.edu/news/231108/ece/dohe_herbie/
STUDENTS
- Luke Farritor (computer science-Raikes) is featured on KOLN-KGIN, WOWT (plus national/international media) for winning the first stage of the Vesuvius Challenge, a competition to decipher charred, ancient papyrus scrolls. https://go.unl.edu/wus5
ALUMNI
- Kent Miller (civil engineering) receives service award from Nebraska Community College Association. https://go.unl.edu/q7v0
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.