The University of Nebraska system ranked among the top 100 academic institutions worldwide in earning U.S. patents during 2017, says a new report from the National Academy of Inventors and Intellectual Property Owners Association.
The NU system earned the 70th most U.S. patents to legally protect research discoveries and technological advances, according to the report. Those patents are awarded through the system’s technology transfer offices, which include NUtech Ventures at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and UNeMed Corp. at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska Omaha.
Read more at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/nu-among-world-s-top-100-for-us-patents/
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More than $880,000 has been granted by the Nebraska Environmental Trust in 2018 to engineering faculty for seven projects that will help preserve, protect and restore the state’s natural resources.
These include five new projects and two being funded for a third year. These projects are among 105 in the state receiving $18,301,819 in grant awards from the Trust this year – 66 are new applications and 39 are carry-over projects.
Read more at: https://engineering.unl.edu/engineering-faculty-get-more-880000-net-grants/
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Biological Systems Engineering researchers Yufeng Ge, Suresh Thapa and colleagues have devised an approach to automatically, efficiently and more quickly gather data about a plant’s phenotype and ideally help produce more food.
Read more at: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/360-degrees-180-seconds-new-technique-speeds-analysis-of-crop-traits/
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Benjamin Terry, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is part of a multi-university team working on a two-year, $3.7 million grant to help save the lives of Americans suffering traumatic lung injuries in battle.
The grant, awarded by the Department of Defense Office of the Air Force Surgeon General, was given to the National Strategic Research Institute (NSRI). The NSRI at the University of Nebraska is one of 13 University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC) across the nation.
This project, which also includes researchers from the Universtity of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Colorado Boulder, will allow for the delivery of oxygenated microbubbles into the abdomen of a person with a traumatic injury to provide oxygen to keep organs, including the brain, alive while the lungs heal.
Read more at: https://engineering.unl.edu/benjamin-terry-part-nsri-37m-grant-save-those-suffering-lung-injury-battle/
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Richard Wood, assistant professor of civil engineering, and doctoral student Ebrahim Mohammadi have developed 3-D software that can visually identify damage in a range of structures, from bridges in Nebraska to temples in Nepal.
Read more at: http://www.nutechventures.org/nebraska-civil-engineers-invent-software-to-detect-structural-damage/
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An assistant professor and a Ph.D. student, both from India, are working with Nebraska engineering faculty mentors on urgent water quality challenges this summer as part of the annual Water Advanced Research and Innovation (WARI) Fellowship Program.
Read more at: https://engineering.unl.edu/wari-promotes-research-links-india/