Shotgun-like blasts booming through the hallways of the College of Engineering are helping herald the next generation of head protection for American soldiers. Using a shock tube – a 10-foot-long metal beam that shoots high pressure gas to mimic the shock waves of explosions – campus researchers are collecting data to design better combat helmets. […]
Lenters’ study tracks evaporation of lakes on Arctic Coastal Plain John Lenters, hydroclimatologist and associate professor at UNL’s School of Natural Resources, spends several weeks each summer in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost town in the United States. “It’s not exactly vacation paradise but it’s an interesting place to be,” is how Lenters describes Barrow, the […]
In 1979, Iran underwent religious revolution and transitioned from a monarchy to an Islamic republic. Many scholars consider the assumption of leadership by Ayatollah Khomeini at that time to represent the rise of global Islamic fundamentalism. For most Americans, Islamic fundamentalism was a vague and distant notion until the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. […]
UNL announced the hiring of new deans in three colleges. Susan Poser, a professor of law and chief of staff and associate to the chancellor, is the new dean of the College of Law. Donde Plowman, professor of business and head of the Department of Management at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, has accepted […]
“The Encyclopedia of Human Rights,” a new five-volume collection edited by political scientist David Forsythe, has received the American Library Association’s Dartmouth Medal. The award, dubbed the Nobel Prize of reference publishing, designates the best reference source annually. Published by Oxford University Press, the encyclopedia took six years to compile and contains more than 300 […]
Historian Annette Gordon-Reed will give a lecture and sign copies of her book, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family,” at UNL. Her lecture, “Writing the History of an Enslaved Family: Monticello in the American Imagination,” is at 7:30 p.m. March 4 at the Sheldon Museum of Art’s Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium. Gordon-Reed holds joint […]
Some genes tend to jump around in our DNA, inserting themselves where they can cause trouble. Eating foods with enough biotin can help keep these “jumping genes” in place. UNL nutrition scientist Janos Zempleni has made important discoveries about how biotin suppresses jumping genes, which may one day lead to better prevention of some cancers […]
Tuberculosis kills humans at the rate of one every 15-20 seconds, while bovine tuberculosis and Johne’s disease can cause economic losses in the range of billions to the beef and dairy cattle industries. What ties these diseases together is that all are caused by mycobacteria, bacteria with unusually thick, waxy cell walls that make them […]
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts has announced the recipients of the 2010 Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board alumni awards. The awards are selected by the college’s Fine and Performing Arts Alumni Board and will be presented April 24 at the college’s annual Honors Day dinner. This year’s award winners are Peggy […]
The 12th annual Women in Science conference, held Jan. 19-20, drew 96 high school students from 26 schools in Nebraska and Kansas to UNL. The conference included hands-on workshops in nursing, dentistry, engineering and natural sciences. The workshops were held in Hardin Hall. Photos by Troy Fedderson/University Communications.
