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A team of UNL civil engineering students competes in the concrete canoe competition at the American Society of Civil Engineers' annual Mid-Continent Conference in Missouri this past April.
May 27, 2016 - UNL civil engineering students earned second- and fourth-place finishes in competitions April 21-23 at the annual ASCE Mid-Continent conference in Missouri.  Full Story

Husker Racing driver Eric Rice waits to take the No. 80 car out on the track at the Baja SAE Collegiate Design Series event in Gorman, California, last weekend.
May 24, 2016 - The Husker Racing Baja SAE team placed seventh among 100 entries last weekend in Gorman, California, marking the first time in club history the team has earned two top-10 finishes in the same season.  Full Story

Constantine Tarawneh, who received master's and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering at UNL, has been appointed associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
May 19, 2016 - Constantine Tarawneh, a mechanical engineering alumus, has been appointed associate dean for research in the College of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.  Full Story

Driver Eric Rice pilots the Husker Racing Baja SAE car through a water crossing during an April competition in Cookeville, Tennessee. The team took fifth place at that event and competes this weekend in Gorman, California.
May 18, 2016 - Fresh off a fifth-place finish in April, one of the best performances in team history, and recovering from the grind of finals week, the Husker Racing Baja SAE team is ready for a trip to sunny Southern California.  Full Story

Shelby Williby, a sophomore in chemical engineering and coordinator of UNL's Out of the Darkness group, was a key figure in organizing an April 17 Campus Walk that drew more than 600 people and raised nearly $25,000 for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
May 18, 2016 - Chemical engineering major Shelby Williby hoped to hike awareness at UNL about suicide prevention by organizing the April 17 Out of the Darkness Campus Walk that drew 600 people and raised $25,000.  Full Story

The new Nano-Engineering Research Core Facility (NECRF), a 32,000-square foot facility in the Voelte-Keegan Nanoscience Research Center, will feature $5 million of state-of-the-art research instrumentation and aims to put the university and the state of Nebraska at the forefront of advance materials manufacturing and nano-engineering.
May 18, 2016 - The new Nano-Engineering Research Core Facility (NERCF), home to research in advance materials manufacturing and nano-engineering, will have an open house Tuesday, May 24.  Full Story

Ramin Hosseinabad
May 16, 2016 - Graduate Connections sat down with Ramin Hosseinabad, PhD student in Mechanical and Materials Engineering, to talk about his experience as an international student at UNL and how he’s made Lincoln his home.  Full Story

UNL engineers (from left) Yongfeng Lu, Lijia Jiang and Ying Liu stand in a laboratory illuminated by a special light that protects the lenses of the lab's scanning electron microscope. (Troy Fedderson / University Communications)
May 03, 2016 - <span>UNL engineers have found that compounds known for scattering people have a similar but desirable effect on nanoscopic carbon tubes, helping disperse them in a way that could substantially boost performance.</span>  Full Story

John Ballard, former professor of industrial management systems engineering and associate dean of the College of Engineering, died April 29.
May 02, 2016 - John Ballard, former professor of industrial management systems engineering and associate dean of the College of Engineering, died on April 29 from kidney cancer. He was 67.  Full Story

Image of satellites pointing upward
May 02, 2016 - A University of Nebraska-Lincoln researcher is helping create a new technology to enable a future of renewable energy. Liyan Qu earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation power grid transformer.  Full Story