Biological Systems Engineering News
January 06, 2021 - While 2020 was a challenging year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering had a year of success stories and major milestones.
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December 15, 2020 - Tami Brown-Brandl, professor of biological systems engineering, was chosen to receive the 2020 High-Quality Pork - Precision Farming Award from Merck Animal Health and an award of up to $200,000 for an applied project in precision farming in swine.
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November 12, 2020 - A research team led by Nicole Iverson has earned a $1.77 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to make nitric oxide sensors easy to use and to utilize them to study both healthy and diseased cells.
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November 09, 2020 - A number of College of Engineering faculty and alumni were recognized during the 2020 NUtech Ventures Innovator Celebration, held virtually on Nov. 2 as part of Nebraska Research Days.
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October 05, 2020 - Four College of Engineering faculty - Srivatsan Kidambi, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Michael Sealy and Cody Stolle - have been chosen to join the inaugural cohort of Faculty Fellows in the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center.
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September 03, 2020 - Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.
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August 27, 2020 - The College of Engineering celebrated the Topping Out of the new Link on City Campus Aug. 26 as the final steel beam was raised and put into place, ending the framing work of its $75 million Phase 1 facilities project.
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August 12, 2020 - Joe Luck, associate professor of biological systems engineering, develops ways to make application systems more efficient in reducing spray drift. Luck discusses this work as part of IANR's Strategic Discussions for Nebraska.
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July 27, 2020 - Forrest Kievit and colleagues have calibrated a nanoparticle whose composition allows it to be clearly visualized by both fluorescence and MRI technologies. This could help in delivering medicines across blood-brain barrier to damaged tissues.
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July 20, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic caused faculty to change their teaching practices immediately with little research available about teaching in a crisis. Faculty in the Engineering Education Research program contucted a study about faculty responses to the crisis.
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