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The team of Husker researchers and engineers working on the asphalt project includes (from left) Nitish Bastola, Khalid Al Washahi, Mahdieh Khedmati and Hamzeh Haghshenas Fatmehsari.
July 30, 2021 - Civil and environmental engineering researchers are developing a recycled asphalt using corn and soybean oil. This recycled paving material, Hamzeh Haghshenas Fatmehsari said, would be greener, save money and create new markets for Nebraska crops.  Full Story

Yongfeng Lu
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Dr. Carol Swarts (left) chats with Angela Pannier during the July 13 ceremony recognizing Pannier as the inaugural Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering.
July 20, 2021 - A friendship sparked by a scholarship has led to Nebraska Engineering’s Angela Pannier being named the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s inaugural Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering.  Full Story

Marilyn Wolf, department chair and Elmer E. Koch professor of computer science and engineering.
July 19, 2021 - Marilyn Wolf, department chair of computer science and engineering, has been named General Chair of the International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks.  Full Story

Siamak Nejati, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nebraska, has received a five-year, $593,240 Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation to build on his previous research on molecular structures.
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This side-by-side comparison shows real-time photos of the Pound Hall demolition and simulations created via a computer model that predicted how the structure would fall.
July 12, 2021 - Gathered by Nebraska civil engineering researchers, data from the December 2017 implosion of the 13-story Cather and Pound Hall dormitories could help investigators yield insights into what might have caused a high-rise Florida condominium to collapse on  Full Story

Rodney Soukup
July 07, 2021 - Rodney Soukup, former chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering, passed away at home on June 23, 2021, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82.  Full Story

Dean Lance C. Pérez (second from right) joins with members of the College of Engineering Advisory Board and the UNL Chancellor in turning a shovelful of dirt during the groundbreaking ceremony for Kiewit Hall on Monday, June 28. (Craig Chandler / University Communication)
June 28, 2021 - A groundbreaking ceremony to celebrate the beginning of construction for the privately funded $97 million Kiewit Hall at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln was held June 28. The event was held adjacent to the new building site at 17th and Vine streets.  Full Story

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