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Maryam Sule, a chemical engineering student from Bellevue, Nebraska.
August 08, 2023 - Maryam Sule, a chemical engineering student and a Peter Kiewit Foundation Engineering Academy scholar, discusses working in the Rural Fellows program this summer on projects at the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.  Full Story

Rachael Wagner and Shane Farritor look over a robotic surgery device in the Virtual Incision facility. (University Communication and Marketing)
August 03, 2023 - Innovative ideas that stretch from rich farmlands to high-tech medical and computer labs have again landed the University of Nebraska System among the world’s leading academic institutions for earning U.S. patents.  Full Story

Matthew Bigge (left) and fellow SUITS team members Peyton Comer, Joseph Seibel, and Charlie McIver during Testing Week at the NASA Johnson Space Center. Courtesy of NASA.
August 03, 2023 - School of Computing graduate Matthew Bigge missed UNL's commencement ceremony in May, but for a good reason: He was spending a week at NASA's Johnson Space Center with the Nebraska SUITS team competing in NASA's SUITS Artemis Challenge.  Full Story

Kazi Albab Hussain (left) holds his son while removing a plastic container of water from a microwave. Hussain and Nebraska Engineering colleagues have found that microwaving such containers can release up to billions of nanoscopic particles and millions of microscopic ones. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
July 21, 2023 - A new Nebraska Engineering research study shows microwaving plastic baby food containers can release huge numbers of plastic particles.  Full Story

Mehmet Can Vuran. (University Communication and Marketing)
July 20, 2023 - Mehmet Can Vuran and his team have received a $430,000, three-year grant from the Naval Surface Warfare Center to address highly complex and evolving challenges for the Department of Defense regarding use of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Full Story

Postdoctoral researcher Mohammadjavad Dowran works with diamond quantum sensing microscopes in Abdelghani Laraoui’s lab. (Craig Chandler / University Communication & Marketing)
July 06, 2023 - A pair of multidisciplinary teams with many of the same researchers, and supported by EQUATE, are developing processes that allow scientists to better see into the nanoscale and harness possibilities of the quantum realm.  Full Story

Nebraska Engineering researchers (from left) Yongfeng Lu, Bai Cui, Piyush Grover, and Keegan Moore are on teams that received three-year, $600,000 grants from the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR). (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
June 29, 2023 - Mechanical and Materials Engineering researchers Bai Cui and Piyush Grover have each been awarded three-year, $600,000 grants from the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) for Fiscal Year 2022.  Full Story

Capstone team members Summer McGrew and Evan Harner display a 6-foot section of the tunnel they designed to replicate the experiences of flight crew members aboard a B-36 bomber.
June 16, 2023 - A team of mechanical engineering students gained real-world experience designing an exhibit that will allow visitors to the SAC Museum to simulate what it was like to fly on a B-36, one of the world's largest combat aircraft.  Full Story

Keegan Moore, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, will use high speed cameras to capture the interface contact conditions — the surfaces the bolts hold together. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
June 09, 2023 - Keegan Moore is studying how the loosening of bolts happens over time and how it might be prevented with a five-year, $727,410 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.  Full Story

Meredith Sutton, doctoral student in environmental engineering.
June 07, 2023 - Meredith Sutton, Ph.D. student in environmental engineering, was selected to the Voices for Science fellow cohort, whose participants conduct outreach activities in local communities to educate general audiences about science and engineering.  Full Story