2023-2024 Report

Tag: Computing

  • Nebraska earns record nine CAREER awards

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    A record nine Husker researchers earned National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program awards in 2024, for a total of $6.2 million in CAREER funding. This milestone places the University of Nebraska-Lincoln among the nation’s most successful institutions in earning awards through this prestigious program for rising scholars. Nebraska was one of only 25…

  • Decoding ancient sphinx’s mysterious message

    Decoding ancient sphinx’s mysterious message

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    Nebraska interdisciplinary scholar Peter Revesz has a unique skill set, one that helped him solve a mystery that had puzzled experts for nearly two centuries.   Drawing on an interest in ancient Greece and a Hungarian childhood, Revesz, a computational linguist, deciphered a short poem at the base of an ancient bronze sphinx. His discovery, covered…