Nebraska and Namibia might be half a world apart – 8,744 miles, to be exact – but the two wildly different places do have a few things in common.
Nebraska has sand hills. Namibia has sand dunes. Both boast vast grasslands. Nebraska has cranes. Namibia has cheetahs.
OK, that last link isn’t so obvious. But [...]

The Office of Research and Economic Development seeks applicants for the competitive Research Development Fellows Program, an initiative to help pre-tenure, tenure-track UNL faculty successfully compete for grants.
Twelve fellows will be selected to participate in the yearlong program, which begins Jan. 25. The application deadline is Nov. 20. A complete program description, preliminary calendar of [...]

A grant from Seismic Micro-Technology Inc. will enable the Antarctic Geological Drilling Science Management Office at UNL to offer more resources to the Antarctic geosciences community.
The three-year, $727,000 grant provides ANDRILL with a software license for SMT’s Kingdom Suite seismic processing and interpretation software.
“The software license will be used to allow us to act as [...]

UNL received a $3 million grant sponsored by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to establish the Great Plains National Security Education Consortium, as a part of the Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence program. The consortium will provide academic, research, cultural immersion and outreach activities focused on national security-related topics to students [...]

There’s nothing UNL physicist Herman Batelaan likes more than a challenge. And there are few areas of science more challenging than working at the sub-atomic, or quantum, world, where the laws of physics are different from those of our macro world.
For the last four years, a little-known area within that field has captured his attention [...]

Imagine a physician or dietitian handing you a set of individualized nutritional guidelines based on your unique genetic makeup – one that could help you ward off such diseases as cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
That’s the ultimate goal of the Nebraska Gateway for Nutrigenomics, a new research initiative at UNL. It aims to use genome-based technologies [...]

The fifth-annual Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference is Sept. 29 at the Qwest Center in Omaha.
The conference begins with morning plenary sessions featuring distinguished speakers dedicated to bringing research and innovation to the forefront. In the afternoon, researchers will present new developments in science and business via a mini-track format. A student poster presentation and [...]

Librarians and archivists are always called on to help bring documents and their history to life.
But Katherine “Kay” Walter – a baseball fanatic – recently had a chance to help give a baseball legend a new voice.
Working with ESPN.com’s reporters and producers on a special archiving and digitization project on Lou Gehrig’s last letters, Walter [...]

A discovery by UNL researchers expands understanding of the genetic code, and may help revise a tenet of this universal language of life.
In cells, the genetic code essentially provides instructions for creating proteins, the basic structural molecules of life. The code includes a series of unique three-letter “code words,” called codons. These genetic passwords dictate [...]

UNL’s Industrial Agricultural Products Center has invented a technology to make a packing peanut that combines the best features of the corn starch (environmentally friendly) and polystyrene (static free).
Milford Hanna, director of the center, and his team developed a patent-pending process that produces a packing peanut based on starch with a small amount of polystyrene [...]