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Shutterstock photo Ghose receives grant to continue radio fingerprinting research
Shudipto Dishari is leading a research team that aims to increase the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells. Dishari developing polymers to boost hydrogen cell efficiency
Mona Bavarian, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nebraska, has received a $576,802 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to develop an advanced manufacturing platform for polymer coatings. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing) With CAREER Award, Bavarian uses AI to develop more precise method to create polymer coatings
Wei Qiao, Clyde Hyde Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Qiao elected as senior member of National Academy of Inventors
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Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.
November 22, 2022 - Ten faculty from the College of Engineering have been honored with new named professorships, bringing to 27 the total of named professorships in the college.  Full Story

Nebraska's Angela Pannier, Swarts Family Chair of Biological Systems Engineering, delivered the Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 17, laying out the history of her field and both the challenges and promises ahead.
November 18, 2022 - Angie Pannier delivered the Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 17, laying out the history gene therapy, and both the challenges and promises ahead. “It’s an exciting time to be in this field,” Pannier said.  Full Story

Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded academic-year stipends to 43 students in the College of Engineering.
November 11, 2022 - The Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience (UCARE) Program has awarded stipends to 202 Husker undergraduates — including 43 College of Engineering students — to participate in research with a faculty mentor this fall.  Full Story

Members of the Field-Nets research team pose in a soybean field on East Campus with their millimeter wave radios with phased-array antennas. The researchers (from left) are Santosh Pitla, Qiang Liu, Yufeng Ge, Christos Argyropoulos and Mehmet Can Vuran. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
November 09, 2022 - A team of faculty from multiple departments in the College of Engineering is working to design next-generation wireless network for agricultural fields.  Full Story

Rajib Saha, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
November 03, 2022 - Rajib Saha is part of a team seek to bioengineer a common defense mechanism most plants develop naturally to protect against environmental stresses, such as drought, ultraviolet rays and insects.  Full Story

Chungwook Sim (center), associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, is joined by alumni Micheal Assad (left) from Kiewit Corporation and David Gee from e.Construct in accepting the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award.
October 28, 2022 - A civil and environmental engineering research team was chosen to receive the ASCE 2022 T.Y. Lin Award for a paper that proposes flexural design recommendations for precast, pretensioned ultrahigh-performance concrete applications.  Full Story

Daniel Linzell, Leslie D. Martin professor of civil and environmental engineering, explains the MADS-OPP system for bridge health monitoring to invited guests during a demonstration Thursday, October 27, on a decommissioned bridge in northwest Lancaster County.
October 28, 2022 - Leading-edge technology developed by University of Nebraska researchers to monitor the health of rural bridges in Nebraska was chosen as a winner of the NATO Innovation Challenge and could be applied to transportation systems throughout Europe.  Full Story

Angie Pannier, Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering, will present the Nebraska Lecture “DNA and RNA Delivery: From Novel Therapies to Vaccines that End Pandemics” on Nov. 17. The lecture will take place via Zoom. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
October 19, 2022 - Angie Pannier, Swarts Family Chair in Biological Systems Engineering and professor of biomedical engineering, will present the Nov. 17 Nebraska Lecture, "DNA and RNA Delivery: From Novel Therapies to Vaccines that End Pandemics."  Full Story

Husker faculty members are leading a project to create a national framework for ag data. (Craig Chandler / University Communication and Marketing)
October 18, 2022 - Hongfeng Yu and Joe Luck are among the University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty who are at the forefront of leading an effort to create a network of national agricultural data repositories, the National Agricultural Producers Data Collective.  Full Story

Congrui "Grace" Jin, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering.
October 13, 2022 - Inspired by the ability of the human body to heal itself, Congrui "Grace" Jin has been awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Young Faculty Award to support research using microorganisms to develop a concrete that can heal its own cracks.  Full Story

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