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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 Jan. 1.
- Nature featured the international ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing) project in a news story, "Polar research: School of Rock," that included comments from David Harwood, UNL geoscientist and ANDRILL research director.
- UNL's powerful Diocles laser was featured on the cover of the February issue of Laser Focus World magazine. Physicist Donald Umstadter discussed the laser and the new Extreme Light Laboratory in an accompanying article.
- Time magazine featured UNL research in an article about turning agricultural byproducts into textiles in the March 12 edition. This work by textile scientists Yiqi Yang and Narendra Reddy also garnered mentions in The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch and the Detroit Free Press. Coverage was based, in part, on the team's findings published in the journal Biomacromolecules in February.
- Chemist Xiao Zeng's discovery of multi-helixed nanoice was featured in American Scientist magazine's March-April issue and on the Earth & Sky radio program. These stories were based on findings that Zeng's team published in the December Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Research by veterinary scientist David R. Smith and Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources colleagues on the efficacy of an E. coli O157:H7 vaccine for cattle was included in a news article, "The dark side of E. coli," in the Jan. 4 issue of Nature. A story about this research aired earlier on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
- The Science Coalition Web site featured research by geologists Christopher Fielding and Tracy Frank and colleagues. The story highlighted their findings, reported in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Science, of climate instability at the end of the last major ice age. Nebraska Public Radio also featured this research.
- The January issue of The Scientist featured research by political scientist John Hibbing and colleagues in an article titled "Are Politics in Your DNA?"
- A story about nanotechnology research on The Voice of America's news Web site included chemical and biomedical engineer Ravi Saraf and his team's new nanoparticle-based touch sensor.
- The donation of a collection of Willa Cather's letters to UNL's Willa Cather Archive was featured in The Chronicle of High Education's News Blog Jan. 23.
- Agronomist Ken Cassman, director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, was quoted in a March 11 San Francisco Chronicle story about biofuels.
- Discover magazine ranked research involving UNL faculty among its top 100 science stories of 2006 in its January 2007 issue. Ecological research that involved biologist Johannes "John" Knops ranked as the No. 62 science story in the January issue. A nanoparticle-based touch sensor developed by engineer Ravi Saraf and doctoral student Vivek Maheshwari was No. 95.
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