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Crowds fill the Strategic Air and Space Museum for Nebraska's Robotics Expo
March 12, 2014 - <span>On a cold Saturday in February, heated competition filled Ashland’s Strategic Air &amp; Space Museum as SASM hosted the Fifth Annual Nebraska Robotics Expo.</span>  Full Story

UNL partners with major manufacturing consortium
February 25, 2014 - UNL is a partner in a $320 million advanced manufacturing collaboration that President Barack Obama announced Feb. 25 at the White House.  Full Story

Andrew Dickinson From left: Sawyer Jager, Tricia Foley, Erik Moore, Prof. Carl Nelson, Blake Stewart, Piotr Slawinski, Nick Goeser, Christian Laney, Shawn Schumacher, Luke Monhollon, Maggie Clay, Ethan Monhollon, Alfred Tsubaki, Victor Torres, Weston Lewis, Effie Greene, Prof. Ben Terry. Not pictured: Ty Rempe, Dustin Dam.
February 19, 2014 - With work on surgical robotics happening daily at UNL’s College of Engineering, students will reach new heights— literally, 35,000 feet — to conduct research for NASA on robotic surgery for space travel.  Full Story

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February 18, 2014 - <span>Each year, EWB-USA recognizes individual members who go above and beyond to serve their chapters and their communities.</span>  Full Story

Xu Li, assistant professor of civil engineering, recently received a five-year, $400,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program Award from the National Science Foundation.
January 30, 2014 - <span>A UNL engineer’s research to understand how bacteria and antibiotics interact in the environment may one day help reduce the danger of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.</span>  Full Story

Ben Terry, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, and graduate student Nathan Legband, in the small animal operating room. The Jan. 15 edition of the journal Biomaterials included work by Terry and Mark Borden of the University of Colorado, who collaborated to develop a new way for providing oxygen to people whose lungs cease to function.
January 27, 2014 - <span>Doctors could have more treatment options when a patient can’t breathe, thanks to an innovative procedure from research by faculty with the University of Colorado-Boulder and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.</span>  Full Story

After recovering from a car-bike collision, UNL mechanical engineering student Isra Somanas (right) returns to a favorite hobby: dancing at Lincoln’s Pla Mor Ballroom. At left is a dance partner, UNL student Liz Merrett. Photo courtesy Alan Dasenbrock.
January 15, 2014 - <span>Among UNL students returning to classes for the Spring 2014 semester is Isra Somanas, a mechanical engineering senior who spent the past six months recovering from a near-fatal accident.</span>  Full Story

Jinsong Huang
January 08, 2014 - <span>The next wave of electronics, using organic thin film transistors instead of silicon, is gaining momentum with new research by engineering faculty at UNL and Stanford University.</span>  Full Story

UNL students receiving the 2014 Graduate Research Fellowships from the Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience are Timothy Martin, Dimitry Papkov and Chieu Van Nguyen.
December 06, 2013 - <span>Three UNL students received the 2014 Graduate Research Fellowships from the&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.unl.edu/ncmn/home">Nebraska Center for Materials and Nanoscience</a><span>.</span>  Full Story

Bin Yang (left) receives a Gold Award from Orlando Auciello, president of the Materials Research Society.
December 04, 2013 - <span>Bin Yang, a doctoral student with mechanical and materials engineering, received a Gold Award for his research on "Fullerene Based Organic Schottky-Junction Devices for Large Open-Circuit Voltage Organic Solar Cells."</span>  Full Story