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Recent Husker graduate Abby Smith (left) holds a prosthetic prototype that she and senior Harrison Grasso (center) helped develop for Olive (right), who is missing part of her left foreleg. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
June 16, 2021 - With the help of a 3D printer at Nebraska Innovation Studio, a team of biological systems engineering students recently finished their senior capstone project by fabricating a prosthetic leg prototype for a cat missing the lower half of its left foreleg.  Full Story

Inspired by her mother and other women in STEM fields, first-year Husker Nicole Livingston is pursuing studies in software engineering. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
June 04, 2021 - Whether pushing back against stereotypes or cynics, first-year College of Engineering student Nicole Livingston never shies away from adversity. The software engineering major has been chosen a member of Nebraska's STEM CONNECT Scholars cohort.  Full Story

Karen Stelling is a professor of practice in mechanical and materials engineering. She is the adviser of the Aerospace Club, which is working on a satellite project with NASA, through a student grant project. She poses in the lobby of Othmer Hall with a display of Nebraska Engineering aerospace engineering projects. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
June 04, 2021 - After 25 years of leading a variety of large-scale projects for a Kansas City firm, Karen Stelling returned to the College of Engineering, her alma mater, in 2013 and is pursuing her passion of growing tomorrow's leaders.  Full Story

The Nebraska Environmental Trust has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $2.1 million to University of Nebraska–Lincoln projects.
May 26, 2021 - Six projects from the College of Engineering have received 2021 grants from The Nebraska Environmental Trust. NET has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $2.1 million to University of Nebraska–Lincoln projects.  Full Story

The Nebraska EPSCoR-Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies collaboration includes (from left): Abdelghani Laraoui, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering at Nebraska; Jonathan Wrubel, associate professor of physics at Creighton University; Xia Hong, associate professor of physics and astronomy at Nebraska; Christian Binek, Charles Bessey Professor of physics at Nebraska; Rebecca Lai, associate professor of chemistry at Nebraska; and Matt Andrews, Nebraska EPSCoR director.
May 25, 2021 - Abdelghani Laraoui is part of a collaboration that has received a five-year, $20 million NSF award to create a research and education cluster to enhance the state’s competitiveness in the field of emergent quantum materials and technologies.  Full Story

Over two years, Josephine Lau and her team surveyed and analyzed 216 classrooms from 39 schools in the Midwest, and the study revealed links between the type of ventilation system installed at a school and its students' performance on year-end math and reading tests.
May 24, 2021 - Over two years, Josephine Lau and her team surveyed and analyzed 216 classrooms from 39 schools in the Midwest, and the study revealed links between the type of ventilation system installed at a school and students' performance on year-end tests.  Full Story

Nine researchers from the College of Engineering are among 31 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be part of the university's inaugural interdisciplinary cohort of National Strategic Research Institute Fellows.
May 20, 2021 - Nine researchers from the College of Engineering are among 31 from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be part of the university's inaugural interdisciplinary cohort of National Strategic Research Institute Fellows.  Full Story

UNL’s Dr. Hamzeh Haghshenas (far right) and the team of Nebraska researchers and engineers working on the asphalt project. (Photo by Nebraska Soybean Board)
May 17, 2021 - Hamzeh Haghshenas is leading a research team that is evaluating the effect of soybean oil on the performance of asphalt pavements containing recycled materials.  Full Story

Grayson Minnick, graduate student in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics.
May 10, 2021 - Grayson Minnick, graduate student in mechanical engineering and applied mechanics, and two Nebraska Engineering alumni – Ryan Regan and Maureen Winter – have been chosen to receive 2021 Graduate Research Fellowships from the National Science Foundation.  Full Story

Jen Skidmore, director of student development in the College of Engineering, was recognized as a recipient of the 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community.
May 10, 2021 - Jen Skidmore, director of student development in the College of Engineering, was recognized as a recipient of the 2020 Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community.  Full Story