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A new technique used by Nebraska engineering researchers Sedighe Keynia, who received a doctorate in mechanical engineering in May 2023, and Joseph Turner allows researchers to better understand how plant cells respond to environmental changes to control the flow of gases and liquids.
November 03, 2023 - A new technique employed in a Nebraska Engineering laboratory has allowed a team of researchers from two universities to gain a greater understanding how plant cells respond to environmental changes to control the flow of gases and liquids.  Full Story

Crews remove concrete and debris from the demolition site of Cather and Pound Halls in February 2018. Nebraska researchers are working to improve recycled concrete for reuse in construction. (University Communication and Marketing)
October 27, 2023 - Nebraska Engineering researcher Seunghee Kim is one of the leaders of a team studying the economic and practical feasibility of using recycled concrete as a building material and carbon sequestration source.  Full Story

Shuai Nie (left), associate professor in the School of Computing, and Yijie Xiong, assistant professor of biological systems engineering and animal science.
October 23, 2023 - An all-women team including Nebraska Engineering researchers Shuai Nie and Yijie Xiong is teaming with Purdue University researchers to design a hybrid broadband communication system for rural communities in Nebraska, bridging the "digital divide."  Full Story

Shudipto Dishari helps Rafael López (left) and Sreyan Saha (right) as they play with cars powered by green energy using biomaterials. Dishari, the Ross McCollum associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, recently began work on a three-year, $489,134 grant from the National Science Foundation that could revolutionize the way devices produce, transport and store electricity. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
October 20, 2023 - An NSF grant is supporting Shudipto Dishari's research to create polymers using cells of recycled Christmas trees and corn plants to help make electrochemical devices greener and more efficient.  Full Story

A team of researchers, including Nebraska engineers Ruiguo Yang and Grayson Minnick, have crafted smaller lenses, some narrower than a human hair, whose size and optical properties can be modified in seconds when subjected to certain stimuli.
October 20, 2023 - A team of researchers, including Nebraska engineers Ruiguo Yang and Grayson Minnick, have crafted smaller lenses, some narrower than a human hair, whose size and optical properties can be modified in seconds when subjected to certain stimuli.  Full Story

Abdelghani Laraoui (right), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Ben Hammons, a first-year student in electrical and computer engineering, adjust a laser in Laraoui's Quantum Sensing & Defect Discovery and Spectroscopy Lab. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
October 19, 2023 - By looking to create quieter environments, a team that includes Nebraska Engineering researcher Abdelghani Laraoui hopes to take a bit of the “noise” out of quantum computing and help make the emerging technology more efficient, accessible and feasible.  Full Story

October 18, 2023 - The letters discovered by Luke Farritor's algorithm translate to the Greek word for "purple."  Full Story

On the early morning of March 14, 2019, the Spencer Dam in Boyd and Holt counties was breached after a major storm caused heavy rain, snowmelt and ice breakage to swell the Niobrara River. (State of Nebraska)
October 18, 2023 - Jongwan Eun, associate professor of civil engineering, received an NSF Early Career grant to enable better predictions of how frozen soil conditions may affect the severity of flooding.  Full Story

Leen-Kiat Soh.
October 13, 2023 - Leen-Kiat Soh has received a new grant from the National Science Foundation to expand his work on a previous artificial intelligence project focused on automating task planning for complex scenarios.  Full Story

Electron microscopy images show a germanium sulfide nanowire (left) containing a single screw dislocation, the screw dislocation converted into a mixed helical dislocation in a hybrid nanowire (center) and an illustration of controlled formation of a tunable mixed dislocation in a core-shell nanowire heterostructure.
October 11, 2023 - By controlling the placement and types of defects in nanowires, Eli Sutter and Peter Sutter are setting the stage for electronic technology to optimize the new advantages the imperfections offer.  Full Story