October 16, 2015 - The National Strategic Research Institute at UNL has received a $1 million contract for research on traffic calming elements and roadway geometry to enhance security and safety at military entry control points.
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September 16, 2015 - Chung Song, a new associate professor of civil engineering, is bringing to UNL a wealth of experience he gained while studying New Orleans flood control systems after Hurricane Katrina.
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August 24, 2015 - Steven Stauffer, a graduate student in civil engineering, has been awarded a $3,000 American Institute of Steel Construction Education Foundation scholarship, one of 20 given to students in the U.S.
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August 24, 2015 - The college is hosting the<a href="node/2899"> BRIDGE-ing Big Data Workshop</a> Oct. 8-9, 2015, focusing on creating and maintaining safer bridges for the nation's infrastructure. The workshop will be held at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
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July 06, 2015 - John Stansbury, associate professor of civil engineering, says the stormwater management projects in eastern Nebraska have held up well despite the record-breaking rain this spring that has brought flooding to some areas.
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June 16, 2015 - Using a high-tech laser scanner and a drone, Richard Wood, assistant professor of civil engineering professor, and his graduate students analyzed the wreckage after a tornado ripped through the town of Pilger, Nebraska, nearly a year ago.
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May 13, 2015 - Shelly Jorgensen's final year of work toward a degree in civil engineering would be a challenge with her family moving to California, but she says receiving a Chi Epsilon National Scholarship will make things a little easier.
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May 07, 2015 - A team of UNL civil engineers, led by associate professor Richard Wood, are using 3D technology to study a middle school building that was destroyed by the 2014 Pilger tornado to find ways to make older builiding safer in severe weather.
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May 05, 2015 - A team of civil engineers from UNL, headed by associate professor Maria Szerszen (pictured), joined the Nebraska Department of Roads in testing stress levels on two 80-year-old bridges in Lincoln before demolition began Tuesday.
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May 01, 2015 - A team of researchers, headed by UNL civil engineering associate professors Xu Li and Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, has been awarded the 2015 Grand Prize for University Research by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists.
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