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Xu Li (front left), Bing Wang (front right), Shannon Bartelt-Hunt (back left) and Yusong Li (back right) collect and examine water samples from the Elkhorn River near Waterloo, Nebraska, as part of the EPA research project. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Nebraska environmental engineers targeting antimicrobial resistance in environment
Qiang Liu, assistant professor in the School of Computing. Liu ‘slicing’ wireless networks to develop ways to improve efficiency
Six Nebraska Engineering faculty - (clockwise from top left) Nirupam Aich, Seunghee Kim, Xu Li, Massimiliano Pierobon, Jae Sung Park, and Eric Markvicka - were awarded named professorships in July 2024. Six Nebraska Engineering faculty awarded named professorships
Adam Erickson from Abdelghani Laraoui’s lab in the Engineering Research Center aligns the nitrogen vacancy scanning probe microscope used for the study. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) Spintronics breakthrough opens door to next-gen electronics
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Twenty-six Nebraska Engineering undergraduate students received summer 2024 stipend awards from UCARE.
July 30, 2024 - Twenty-six College of Engineering students are among the 114 University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduate students who were awarded stipends to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.  Full Story

Craig Zuhlke (left) and George Gogos (back), co-directors of the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces, and Graham Kaufman, doctoral student in electrical engineering, pose with the Leybold ultra-high vacuum laser surface processing and materials analysis system in the CEFS lab in the Engineering Research Center. (University Communicaton and Marketing photo)
July 23, 2024 - When researchers from the Center for Electro-Optics and Functionalized Surfaces presented at a major international conference in May, their work on a revolutionary surface modification technique created a buzz among attendees.  Full Story

Grace Panther, Ph.D.
June 20, 2024 - With a five-year, $650,000 grant from the NSF Career Award, Grace Panther aims to improve engineering pedagogy.  Full Story

Shuai Nie, assistant professor of computing in the School of Computing.
June 10, 2024 - Shuai Nie is using an $812,995 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to unlock the potential of a lesser-trafficked portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.  Full Story

Lily Wang, director of the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
June 05, 2024 - Lily Wang, who runs the acoustics program in the Durham School, was featured in a June 2 Washington Post article exploring noise levels in restaurants.  Full Story

Three Nebraska Engineering students and a physics student from Nebraska Wesleyan University will gain unique experience for nine weeks this summer, staying at Kobe University, then transitioning to Toyohashi University of Technology, where they will work for eight weeks on a research project. (Google Maps)
May 29, 2024 - With support from a National Science Foundation IRES grant, Three Nebraska Engineering students and a physics student from Nebraska Wesleyan University will gain unique experience for nine weeks this summer, doing research at a university in Japan.  Full Story

Carrick Detweiler, Susan J. Rosowski Professor in the School of Computing, has been chosen to receive the 2024 NU President's Excellence Award. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
May 28, 2024 - Innovative research has earned Carrick Detweiler, Susan J. Rosowski Professor in the School of Computing, the President's Excellence Award, the University of Nebraska system's most prestigious faculty honor.  Full Story

Researchers fabricated an optical element that uses a forest of tiny, antenna-like nanorods, seen here, that together create a metamaterial able to control the spin of light. The metamaterial nanorods appear to be shaped like the letter “L” when seen at the nanoscale.
May 23, 2024 - Using metamaterials, researchers from Nebraska Engineering and Penn State created an ultra thin optical element that can control the direction of polarized electromagnetic light waves and identify the chirality of molecules.  Full Story

Nirupam Aich, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering
April 26, 2024 - A research team headed by Nebraska Engineering’s Nirupam Aich has found a way to use nanomaterials to not only remove harmful "forever" chemicals targeted by new EPA regulations from water but also to effectively degrade or destroy them.  Full Story

Eric Markvicka (left), assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, holds a tray of liquid metal samples while graduate student Ethan Krings works on a sample at right. Markvicka has earned a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to advance his work with room-temperature, non-toxic liquid metals. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
April 22, 2024 - Eric Markvicka received a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program grant to support research to produce materials that could propel the fields of soft robotics, stretchable electronics and beyond.  Full Story

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