May 01, 2015 - Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed Dan Linzell, UNL’s chair of civil engineering, to the Nebraska Board of Engineers and Architects, which oversees the laws and rules for licensing engineers and architects.
Full Story
March 11, 2015 - An Engineers Without Borders team, comprised of UNL students and faculty advisers, is returning to a village in Madagascar this summer to provide electricity and access to clean water.
Full Story
March 10, 2015 - What happens to our health when antibiotics seep into the environment? Dr. Xu Li, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, says that bacteria could become antibiotic-resistant, possibly leading to contamination of water or food sources.
Full Story
February 20, 2015 - A team that includes a UNL associate professor of civil engineering, has released a study that suggests prions responsible for chronic wasting and other diseases can be degraded by the rain and sun that fall upon the soil the prions often live in.
Full Story
February 17, 2015 - A team that includes UNL engineering faculty and researchers has found that narrow grass hedges on agricultural plots can limit animal waste – and with it antibiotics and antibiotic-resistant bacteria – into nearby streams.
Full Story
December 12, 2014 - With the U.S. economy expected to have 1.5 million engineering and computer science job openings by 2020, the Peter Kiewit Institute is a key part of Chancellor Harvey Perlman's 2015-17 biennial budget request.
Full Story
November 11, 2014 - Don Voelte, a 1975 civil engineering graduate, will be hosted by the College of Engineering as one of 10 outstanding UNL alumni who will take part in the university’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Alumni Masters Week Nov. 19-21.
Full Story
November 07, 2014 - Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, UNL associate professor of civil, is one of 24 U.S. scientists selected to participate in the second Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering and Medicine Symposium from Dec. 13-15 in Muscat, Oman.
Full Story
November 04, 2014 - Three UNL faculty, led by Civil Engineering Professor Bruce Dvorak, are part of WINSSS, a national project that hopes to bring up-to-date technology and safer water to America’s small communities.
Full Story
October 15, 2014 - Tyler Schmidt, a graduate research assistant at UNL’s Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, was awarded first place in the student presentations at the International Highway Engineering Exchange Program Conference in New Orleans on Oct. 1.
Full Story