Category: Awards of $5 Million or More

The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research is a collaboration between the university and the Nebraska Public Power District. The center was established in 2006 to support energy research that produces new technologies, processes and systems that provide new or significantly enhanced renewable energy sources, improves the quality of life and boosts economic opportunity. The…

Thomas Clemente and Edgar Cahoon lead Nebraska’s participation in the Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, a U.S. Department of Energy-funded initiative focused on development and marketing of bioenergy crops, biofuels and other bioproducts. Clemente, Eugene W. Price Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology, and Cahoon, George W. Holmes Professor of Biochemistry, pursue work to transform…

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln established the Quality Improvement Center for Workforce Development with funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families-Children’s Bureau. Under the leadership of Michelle Graef, research professor in the Center on Children, Families and the Law, this multidisciplinary project studies and tests promising strategies to…

The Rural Drug Addiction Research Center was created in 2019 as a National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE. Under the leadership of Rick Bevins, Mildred Francis Thompson University Professor of Psychology, the center’s mission is to advance understanding of causes, impacts and interventions related to rural drug use and misuse…

Eve Brank, Aaron Douglas Professor of Psychology and director of the Center on Children, Families, and the Law, and Kathryn Olson, associate director of CCFL and research assistant professor of psychology, lead this effort to develop and deliver training to child and family services specialists consistent with federal and state statutes and policy. With the…

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the Emergent Quantum Materials and Technologies collaboration was formed to put Nebraska at the forefront of research and education in quantum materials and technology, which will be a major driver of the state and national economy in the future. Christian Binek, Charles Bessey Professor of Physics, leads the EQUATE…

Rural Prosperity Nebraska, a university hub focused on advancing rural communities, is leading formation of the Heartland Regional Food Business Center. The center, an online platform aimed at connecting and strengthening locally grown food systems, brings together buyers, sellers, producers, processors and market managers. Funded by a $25 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S.…

Martin Centurion, Carl A. Happold Professor of Physics and Astronomy, leads a team investigating the parameters that govern electrocyclic reactions, a class of reactions that plays an important role in nature and has many commercial applications, such as pharmaceutical synthesis. Using multiple experimental techniques, including time-resolved probing methods and advanced theoretical modeling, the team aims…

With the support of a $12.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, the university has established the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases Through Dietary Molecules. The center, under the leadership of Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of Molecular Nutrition, focuses on understanding nutrition and…