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The research, creative and scholarly activities of UNL faculty often garner media coverage. Here are a few examples of national coverage since July. Web links are provided when available.
- The Science Coalition Web site featured the UNL Redox Biology Center's $10.8 million competitive renewal grant on its home page in September, including comments from Vadim Gladyshev, professor of biochemistry and center director.
- ANDRILL, the Antarctic Geological Drilling Program, was in the national spotlight in October when NBC featured it on the Today Show and the NBC Nightly News as part of coverage on global warming. UNL geoscientists David Harwood and Richard Levy were among those who hosted Today's Anne Curry during her visit to ANDRILL's Southern McMurdo Sound Project drill site. Levy was also quoted in an extensive story about ANDRILL featured on the Apple Science Web site this fall.
- A New York Times story about severe drought in the Southeastern U.S. featured comments from Mike Hayes, director of UNL's National Drought Mitigation Center.
- Research by UNL geoscientists Clinton Rowe, David Loope, Robert Oglesby and colleagues challenges a long-held theory about when the portion of the ancient supercontinent of Pangea that is now the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah shifted from the equator. Their findings, reported in Science in November, garnered coverage in ScienceDaily and the Canadian Free Press.
- A new computer modeling tool developed by UNL agricultural scientists to help assess the environmental impact of ethanol production continues to generate media interest. Renewable Energy magazine quoted agronomy professor Ken Cassman, who led this research and is director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Science Research at UNL.
- Research by Doug Seefeldt, assistant professor of history, on an 1857 massacre and the Web site he created in collaboration with UNL's Center for Digital Research were featured in The Salt Lake Tribune.
- Chemistry World included information about research by Ravi Saraf, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, in a story on nanoparticles.
- News of the National Medal of Technology award winners, which included Dean Sicking, professor of civil engineering, received extensive coverage including The Washington Post, USA Today, The Guardian and Voice of America.
- Transportation research at UNL is featured in the latest issue of Palladian Digest, which is published by the Nebraska Alumni Association in cooperation with the Office of Research and distributed to alumni members worldwide. It features stories about the Nebraska Transportation Center, Midwest Roadside Safety Facility, Mid-America Transportation Center, National Bridge Research Organization, all based at UNL, including research by UNL engineers Atorod Azizinamini, Elizabeth Jones, Andy Nowak, Larry Rilett, Dean Sicking and Maher Tadros.
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