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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 March.
- Agronomist Ken Cassman, director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research, was featured in the cover story for the July 2007 issue of Ethanol Producer Magazine. The article included information about new software developed by Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers to assess biofuel production systems.
- Research by biochemist Don Weeks, plant scientist Tom Clemente and colleagues to develop dicamba-resistant broadleaf crops garnered extensive coverage in May, including stories in Nature, Scientific American and Chemical & Engineering News. Weeks participated in an online question and answer for ScienCentralNews. The UNL team reported their research findings in Science in May.
- Discoveries made during the first field season of drilling for ANDRILL, the Antarctic drilling program that UNL manages, earned extensive international coverage, including a BBC News story, which quoted geoscientist David Harwood, ANDRILL's research director. It also appeared at Physorg.com.
- A Science news story in May included comments from entomologist Marion Ellis about the disappearance of honey bees worldwide.
- International news outlets, including the online ScienceDaily and allAfrica.com, quoted agronomist Charles Wortmann in a story about INTSORMIL research that has helped improve crop output in Uganda. Wortmann co-authored results of a sorghum cropping systems study conducted through the UNL-based international sorghum and millet research cooperative and published in Agronomy Journal.
- Veterinary scientist Rod Moxley was included in a story in The New York Times about research to develop vaccines to protect against E. coli O157:H7.
- Plant scientist Jim Alfano's research on plant immune systems received coverage in numerous news outlets, including CCNews, after Alfano's team published its findings in Nature in April.
- An article in Technology News Daily outlined switchgrass research by biochemist Gautam Sarath, a USDA Agricultural Research Service researcher, and other UNL scientists.
- Their research on Major League Baseball's hitting slump garnered extensive coverage for historians Ben Rader and Kenneth Winkle, including a story on MSNBC.
- The Economist magazine featured a story about spintronics research by physicist Andrei Sokolov and colleagues after the team reported its findings in Nature Nanotechnology.
- Nature this spring featured a commentary by geoscientist Mary Anne Holmes and a Connecticut colleague about the lack of women in the academic ranks of science, technology, engineering and math.
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