Fueled by more than a decade of excellence, the research and creative activity enterprise at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is making big impacts statewide and around the world.

Adam Houston has heard the gibes about weather forecasters – what other professionals are so wrong so often and still have a job? Et cetera – and he’s good-natured about it. But the truth is weather forecasting has gotten pretty good, and there’s room, with technology, to get even better.

The United States military is turning up the heat in its search for new scalable technologies that will meet its needs for electronics devices that are smaller, scalable and keep their cool.

Even with the added pressures of a compressed time frame and working in microscale, Nebraska Engineering researchers are poised to build on their track records as innovators and leaders in heat transfer and thermal management.

Jeffrey Stevens, founder of Nebraska’s Canine Cognition and Human Interaction Lab, now co-directs a worldwide project that aims to expand and improve research into human’s best friend.

A Husker researcher is leading a three-year project that uses cutting-edge technology to facilitate communication for children with severe speech and physical impairments.

Alyssa Grube, a graduate student in chemical engineering, won the Student Research Days Slam with her talk, “I Taught Myself to Knit When I Was 11.” Slammers were asked to describe what their 11-year-old selves would think is the coolest or most surprising part of their work today.