In the News provides links to articles featuring research into the Cather/Pound demolition, Shane Farritor's start-up company getting a major investment, and CSE faculty joining City of Lincoln on a project to establish a gigabit wireless network.
The collected data looks "promising" and should help research by Nebraska civil engineering faculty and students keep the legacy of Cather and Pound residence halls alive long after their Dec. 22, 2017 demolition. https://go.unl.edu/7vv7
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Virtual Incision -- a company co-founded by Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical and materials engineering -- has raised $18 million in venture-capital investments for its miniature surgical robot. The company, located on Nebraska Innovation Campus, will use the financing to support its premarket notification submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its next-generation miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device. The device enables physicians to perform less-invasive general surgeries, especially abdominal procedures, that are usually performed with large, open incisions.
Read Nebraska Today (https://go.unl.edu/r495) and Lincoln Journal Star (https://go.unl.edu/2chu) articles.
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A University of Nebraska-Lincoln team -- including Computer Science and Engineering faculty Mehmet Can Vuran and Byrav Ramamurthy and the Holland Computing Center -- are partnering with the City of Lincoln and US Ignite on a project that will establish a gigabit wireless network in the community. Lincoln joins 24 other national and international communities participating in the US Ignite Smart Gigabit Communities program.
https://go.unl.edu/yabk