In this short video message, Jennifer Nelson, vice chancellor for research and innovation, shares her thoughts about Nebraska Research Days, UNL’s research priorities and what’s in store for the future.

Nebraska Research Days will kick off Nov. 9, with a week of celebration, learning opportunities and more.

Building on previous research into how politics can cause anxiety, Kevin Smith, professor of political science at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and Aaron Weinschenk, professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, recently published an article establishing general anxiety and political anxiety as distinct phenomena.

Max Perry Mueller, a religious studies professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, will participate in an 11-month fellowship to study religion’s role in American civic life.

After more than a decade of trying to overcome that limitation, Ravi Saraf and his Nebraska Engineering graduate students have demonstrated a way to quantify many reactions on the same electrode without sacrificing extraordinary sensitivity.

Truman Stoller, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is among 45 students nationwide selected by NASA to receive a 2026 Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities Fellowship.