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Garza uncovers untold stories behind Mexico City’s transformation
After a decade of study, including a year living in Mexico City, annual trips to the national archives there and a research trip to London, James Garza is reaching the finishing stages of a book about how the Mexican government under President Porfirio Diaz, partnered with a major British engineering firm to build a 30-mile drainage canal outside Mexico City at the end of the 19th century.
The Gran Canal del Desagüe was an engineering triumph that provided flood control, improved sanitation and propelled Mexico City to become one of the world’s largest and most beautiful metropolitan areas.
MoreFellowship will advance Liu’s wireless network research
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty continue to make strides in bridging the digital divide between rural and urban America through innovative research, this time with a fellowship and new collaboration with another Midwest university.
With support from the National Science Foundation and its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Fellows initiative, Qiang Liu, assistant professor in the School of Computing, will join researchers at Iowa State University to develop a first-of-its-kind, zero-touch network management system with a new, safe, online hierarchical learning framework for open radio access mobile networks.
MoreHuskers help youth navigate online media landscape
A project featuring educational curriculum created by researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s College of Education and Human Sciences and Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts is educating youth about online media literacy, a kind of driver’s ed for navigating the digital landscape. Media Stamped, a video series hosted by education and advocacy organization […]
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