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Bruce Dvorak, professor of civil and environmental engineering.
October 06, 2020 - College of Engineering students will work with several businesses over the next two summers to reduce water, energy and material use, as well as wastewater and solid waste, through a $236,000 Environmental Protection Agency grant.  Full Story

Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
October 05, 2020 - Rajib Saha, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, has received the 2020 Early Career Alumni Recognition Award from the Penn State University's Department of Chemical Engineering.  Full Story

Srivatsan Kidambi, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Michael Sealy and Cody Stolle are among the inaugural cohort of NGTC Faculty Fellows.
October 05, 2020 - Four College of Engineering faculty - Srivatsan Kidambi, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Michael Sealy and Cody Stolle - have been chosen to join the inaugural cohort of Faculty Fellows in the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center.  Full Story

Shannon Bartelt-Hunt (left), professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, and Spencer Perry, a graduate student in environmental engineering, discuss a wastewater sample taken from the Harper Schramm Smith residence halls. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
September 25, 2020 - Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, professor and chair of civil and environmental engineering, is leading a team of graduate students who are sampling wastewater to track the spread of COVID-19 on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.  Full Story

Zulu, left, and Philisa are two types of thermal cyclers developed by Streck in partnership with Nebraska researchers.
September 18, 2020 - Technology developed by Hendrik Viljoen, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, is now in commercial use and is helping to provide faster results in determining whether a bacteria is resistant to frontline antibiotics.  Full Story

Ricardo Jacome, graduate student in mechanical engineering.
September 16, 2020 - Ricardo Jacome, a graduate student in mechanical and materials engineering and a researcher at the Midwest Roadside Safety Facility (MwRSF), has been chosen as a Doctoral Research Fellow by the Society of Automotive Engineers for 2020-21.  Full Story

NWEA Mentoring Program
September 04, 2020 - The Nebraska Water Environment Association is seeking applicants for their new mentoring program.  Full Story

Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping. (University Communication)
September 03, 2020 - Yufeng Ge has received a $3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to lead a team of researchers from three universities in expanding and standardizing plant phenotyping.  Full Story

The College of Engineering welcomes 13 new faculty for the 2020-21 academic year.
August 31, 2020 - The College of Engineering has added 13 new faculty for 2020-21, increasing total faculty hires to 58 over the past four years. The new faculty include five in Computer Science and Engineering and three in Civil and Environmental Engineering.  Full Story

College of Engineering Dean Lance C. Pérez and representatives of Hausmann Construction were among the people who signed the final steel beam in the new Link before it was raised and put into place Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020.
August 27, 2020 - The College of Engineering celebrated the Topping Out of the new Link on City Campus Aug. 26 as the final steel beam was raised and put into place, ending the framing work of its $75 million Phase 1 facilities project.  Full Story