Academic Affairs is working to expand opportunities for undergraduate research experiences across campus. UNL’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience program was rated one of the top 28 university programs in undergraduate research by U.S. News and World Report last year. The UCARE program allows students to work alongside faculty on research or creative activity […]

Sandhills ranchers, landowners and other public grassland managers wanting to better manage prairie chickens soon will be able to thanks to UNL research. Nebraska has one of the largest populations of greater prairie chickens in the United States. However, previous prairie chicken research has only been conducted on the tallgrass prairies of Illinois, Kansas, Wisconsin […]

The percentage of Americans who say they are strong in their religious faith has been steady for the last four decades, a new study finds. But in that same time, the intensity of some religious groups has surged while others — notably Roman Catholics — has faded. Among the risers: Evangelicals, who have become more […]

Research by Lily Wang, associate professor of architectural engineering, was featured Oct. 18 on ScienceDaily. Funded by NASA, Wang’s work with graduate student Christopher Ainley explored how noise bursts affect the performance and perceptions of test subjects. The UNL team worked to “find a threshold value under which the noise would not significantly affect” the […]

Three UNL doctoral students are seeking volunteers to help with research into the ways lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children and parents talk after the coming-out process. The communication studies students leading the research are Christina Ivey, Amy Arellano and Allison Ronnau. Parents and children participating must have had a direct explicit discussion or acknowledgement […]

The key to making computers and other electronics smaller, faster and less expensive lies in overcoming the limitations of existing materials. Xia Hong believes her research on nanoscale materials will help break through current barriers. Hong, assistant professor of physics and astronomy and a researcher in UNL’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, earned a […]

UNL researchers are helping paint a fuller portrait of the slaves in Washington, D.C., how they lived and how emancipation changed their lives. The research is part of the part of the Civil War Washington digital research project, and also marks the 150th anniversary of the Compensated Emancipation Act. Though controversial, the act produced exceptionally […]

The secret to excelling in a job interview may not hinge on how much your interviewers like you, but in how much you like yourself. Narcissism, a trait considered obnoxious in most circumstances, actually pays off big-time in the short-term context of a job interview, according to a new study to be published in the […]

A new startup company will use a process developed by professor Stephen DiMagno to improve medical imaging. The new company, Ground Fluor Pharmaceuticals Inc., will use the discovery to develop new imaging agents for use in diagnosis and management of disease, and to help other companies better manufacture imaging agents for positron emission tomography (PET) […]

Plants subjected to a previous period of drought learn to deal with the stress thanks to their memories of the previous experience, UNL research has found. The findings could lead to development of crops better able to withstand drought. The research also confirms, for the first time, the scientific basis for what home gardeners and […]