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Nebraska’s Christos Argyropoulos has received a three-year, $750,000 early career grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program. He will use the award to advance research into using ultrafast, short-pulse lasers to modify metal surfaces. The work has potential use in national defense applications.
ONR award, a first for Nebraska, boosts Christos Argyropoulos' laser research
An Office of Naval Research award is helping Nebraska’s Christos Argyropoulos advance laser research with an array of national defense applications. He is the first Husker researcher to receive this honor since the program's founding in 1985.



Nebraska’s Christos Argyropoulos has received a three-year, $750,000 early career grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program. He will use the award to advance research into using ultrafast, short-pulse lasers to modify metal surfaces. The work has potential use in national defense applications.
January 18, 2019 - An Office of Naval Research award is helping Nebraska’s Christos Argyropoulos advance laser research with an array of national defense applications. He is the first Husker researcher to receive this honor since the program's founding in 1985.
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Santosh Pitla (center) assists students with a sensor-building project. Pitla is leading a new research project that will update techniques used to test tractors.
January 18, 2019 - A four-year, $472,887 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture is helping a Nebraska research team, led by Santosh Pitla, bring tractor testing into the modern era.
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A rendering of a millimeter-scale, sugar-based stent designed by Nebraska's Ali Tamayol and his colleagues.
January 11, 2019 - Stitching together millimeter-scale arteries during surgeries is difficult for even the most skilled surgeons, but a 3D-printed stent being developed by Ali Tamoyal, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, may make the process easier.
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Civil engineering researchers (from left) Daniel Linzell, Richard L. Wood and Christine E. Wittich discuss what they've learned from sifting through data collected during the December 2017 demolition of Cather and Pound residence halls.
January 03, 2019 - The razing of Cather and Pound residence halls was quite a sight to see. But for Nebraska civil engineering researchers collecting data that day, it was a moment of silence during the blast sequence that may be the most resonant.
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Jerry Hudgins (left), chair of electrical and computer engineering, presents students Megan Stokey (center) and Matthew Penne with their certificates for being chosen to receive the 2018-19 IEEE Power and Energy Society Scholarship Plus Initiative awards.
December 12, 2018 - Two Nebraska electrical and computer engineering students - seniors Megan Stokey and Matthew Penne - have been chosen as IEEE Power & Energy Society Scholars for 2018-19.
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Robert "Bob" Williams, the vice chancellor for research and economic development and Kate Foster Professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.
December 12, 2018 - Robert “Bob” Wilhelm, vice chancellor for research and economic development and professor of mechanical and materials engineering, and Lyle Middendorf, a 1973 electrical engineering graduate, were named fellows of the National Academy of Inventors.
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Fariba Aghabaglou (left) and Dominic Nguyen took first place Dec. 3 at the Engineering Pitch Challenge.
December 07, 2018 - Fariba Aghabaglou (graduate and faculty) and Dominic Nguyen (undergraduate) took first place Dec. 3 in the inaugural Engineering Pitch Challenge.
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Mechanical engineering student Mark Nail receives honorable mention for Goldwater Scholarship
Mark Nail, junior in mechanical engineering
April 11, 2018 -  Mark Nail, a junior in mechanical engineering, was one of two Nebraska students chosen to receive honorable mention recognition for the Goldwater Scholarship. Nail has researched drones with Sebastian Elbaum, Bessey Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Carrick Detweiler, associate professor of computer science and engineering. That research has focused on depositing sensors underground using an unmanned aerial vehicle. Nail plans to pursue a doctorate in mechanical engineering and conduct research in robotics at a corporate or university laboratory.
Carl Nelson chosen to receive university's Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award
April 06, 2018 -  Carl Nelson, professor of mechanical and materials engineering, has been chosen to receive the University's Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award. Nelson will be recognized Sept. 13 at the university's annual The Laurels reception, an annual event to honor faculty.
Joshua Mueller receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
April 05, 2018 -  Joshua Mueller, a chemical and biomolecular engineering alumnus and a current graduate student, has been selected to receive a 2018 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Mueller received a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Nebraska in 2017 and is working on a doctorate under Dr. Wei Niu.