UNL Office of Research News and Information

Undergrads experience nanomaterials research

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Future scientists can enhance their skills in nanomaterials and nanoscience through a summer research program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln that's funded by the National Science Foundation through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Wood presents Nebraska Lecture Nov. 10

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

HIV/AIDS is a public health crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa. The disease's widespread prevalence -- two-thirds of people living with the disease reside there -- has greatly affected the region's health and economy.

Developing tools to find key genetic info

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Scientific advances in areas as diverse as medicine and agriculture often require finding specific snippets of DNA within an organism’s vast genetic information.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln biologist Etsuko Moriyama received $95,017 from the National Institutes of Health National Library of Medicine through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to help her develop tools to locate them.

UNL earns $15.7 million in stimulus funding

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty have been awarded $15.7 million in grants funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through Sept. 30 to support research projects, according to UNL's Office of Research and Economic Development.

Clues could aid human health

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

A tiny mouse living high in the mountains is providing evolutionary clues that might someday help people with blood and lung disorders.

UNL evolutionary biologist Jay Storz is comparing the genetics of deer mice living at high altitudes with their relatively oxygen-rich lowland cousins to understand how animals evolve to adapt to low-oxygen environments. A $220,774 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Heart, Lung and Blood Disorder Institute is enabling Storz and colleagues to expand their ongoing, NIH-funded research.

NU Press author wins Nobel Prize

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

For the second time in as many years, a University of Nebraska Press author is the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. German writer Herta Müller, whose short story collection Nadirs was published by the Press in 1999, is the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Literature.

UNL earns $15.7 million in stimulus funding

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Personalized nutrition is program goal

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Imagine a physician or dietitian handing you a set of individualized nutritional guidelines based on your unique genetic makeup -- one that could help you ward off such diseases as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's. That's the ultimate goal of the Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics, a new research initiative at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

UNL receives grant to study water, energy

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 14:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded nearly $1.25 million to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering's Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction to work on Advanced Decentralized Water/Energy Network Design for Sustainable Infrastructure.

Article examines rare quantum physics effect

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

There's nothing UNL physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or quantum, world, where the laws of physics are different from those of our macro world.

Study: Black women more likely to have trusted doctor

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Younger black women are more likely to have a regular doctor -- and are more likely to feel cared for by that doctor -- than younger white women and women of other ethnic groups, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln study shows.

UNL receives $3 million for education consortium

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

UNL has received a $3 million grant to establish the Great Plains National Security Education Consortium. The consortium, sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will provide rich academic, research, cultural immersion and outreach activities focused on national security-related topics to students with diverse interests and backgrounds.

New Ted Kooser book a top pick

Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Publishers Weekly magazine named UNL English professor Ted Kooser’s Lights on a Ground of Darkness one of the top 20 books published by university and independent presses this fall. Kooser is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate. Published by the University of Nebraska Press, the book was listed among the “dazzling array of works” from independent publishers in the Aug. 31 issue of Publishers Weekly.

Molden: Intimate link between food, water

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Global food production has outpaced population growth since 1960, but meeting growing demand for food and water in the future will be challenging.

"There is an intimate link between food and water," said David Molden, deputy director general for research at the International Water Management Institute and an internationally known expert on water management. In his public lecture, "Will there be Enough Water to Grow Enough Food?" Aug. 27 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Molden said the answer to this critical question is "no, unless we change the way we think and act on water issues."

View Molden's PowerPoint presentation here. View the lecture video here

Research funding hits record $122 million

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Total research funding at UNL increased nearly 13 percent to a record of more than $122 million this year. Total research funding, which includes all external funds awarded for university research, was $122,452,344 in the fiscal year ending June 30. The increase, up from $108.3 million in fiscal 2008, is UNL's largest ever year-to-year research funding growth.

UNL establishes rural education center

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:00:00 GMT

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has received a nearly $10 million grant from the U.S. Department Education Institute of Education Sciences to establish the National Center for Research on Rural Education, the only one of its kind in the U.S.

Water for Food conference wraps up

Tue, 5 May 2009 14:00:00 GMT

Leading water experts from around the world discussed the global challenge of growing more food with less water at The Future of Water for Food conference May 4, hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the University of Nebraska. Jeffrey S. Raikes, CEO of the Gates Foundation, gave the conference keynote address. Speakers and panelists throughout discussed key issues in science, technology, policy and the human dimensions of the use of water for agriculture. The conference laid the groundwork for a global water institute that university officials envision as an international center for research, education and policy on the use of water for agriculture.