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Honey production sweetens Bee Lab’s research
Each summer, students in Judy Wu-Smart’s bee laboratory harvest honey made by their winged colleagues to sell to the public.
The golden nectar is an outgrowth of the researchers’ primary work and its sales help further the team’s mission, said Shelby Kittle, a graduate student who manages the lab’s honey sales.
MoreNebraska team leads $1.3M project to improve youth homelessness supports
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is leading a project to create a statewide network to support youth experiencing or threatened by homelessness.
Funded by a $1.3 million Youth Homelessness System improvement grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the project will link partner organizations statewide, create systems that better identify youth in need and improve access to necessary support services.
MoreMondal lab pioneers research into pest-borne viral infections of cereal crops
Just as hungry hordes of grasshoppers threatened fields during Nebraska’s pioneer era, certain mites and aphids these days pose a significant threat by transmitting viruses to cereal crops. Many gaps remain in the scientific understanding of that transmission, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in recent years has taken major steps to pioneer research on these issues.
To spearhead the effort, the university in 2023 hired Shaonpius Mondal, a scientist with deep experience in studying arthropods as virus vectors in agriculture, as an assistant professor of entomology.
MoreFritz explores depths of Amazon River Basin
Sherilyn Fritz recently spent time in Brazil working to penetrate mysteries of the geologic record of the Amazon River Basin.
Fritz, George Holmes University Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, spent two weeks leading a team seeking information about the history of the climate, geology and biodiversity of tropical South America. The Trans-Amazon Drilling Project aims to reconstruct this history through the study of sediment cores drilled from the riverbed.
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From Nebraska to Kenya, project aims to fulfill a Grand Challenge
A group of University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers and students is in Nairobi, Kenya, to learn about forced migration-affected persons, families and communities as part of the Pamoja Project.
With funding from a Grand Challenges Planning Grant, the UNL team partnered with Amref International University and Moi University researchers as well as with Umoja Refugee Creative, a Nairobi-based refugee-led organization.
MoreUniversity leaders celebrate additional proposed funding for USDA facility
niversity of Nebraska leaders are celebrating the announcement that U.S. Sen. Deb Fischer and the Senate Appropriations Committee have identified an additional $16 million in federal funding for construction of the USDA Agricultural Research Service facility at Nebraska Innovation Campus.
More‘Twisters’ draws from storm-chasing science led by Nebraska expert
Adam Houston, professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, like many moviegoers and weather buffs, is eagerly awaiting the July 19 premiere of “Twisters,” the tornado-chasing blockbuster movie.
Houston, who studies tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms, has made a career as a real-life storm chaser. A witness to scores of tornadoes during more than two decades of research, Houston was among scientists and weather experts nationwide who were contacted by “Twisters” director Lee Isaac Chung as he prepared to begin filming in early 2023.
MoreProject explores fostering future leaders in rural communities
As the makeup of American communities changes in coming years to grapple with impending transfers of wealth and leadership, sustainability of rural communities is a priority.
Lindsay Hastings, Clifton Professor in Mentoring Research at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has recently worked with her team — Justine Bircher, Mary Emery and Jordan Rasmussen — on a project to build leadership development systems to sustain rural communities for the future.
MoreNSRI, MIT Lincoln Laboratory announce strategic partnership, results of student R&D
The National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska, a University Affiliated Research Center designated by the U.S. Department of Defense, has established a new strategic partnership with Lincoln Laboratory, the Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their aim: Launch a student research program that will tackle historical national security questions for the DOD with new and innovative approaches.
MoreResearch highlights TikTok as tool in opioid harm reduction
Nebraska researcher finds that TikTok can be a useful tool in promoting opioid treatment.
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