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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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