Engineering, architecture programs work to build zero-net energy home UNL students and faculty are building a house of the future. More than 100 students and faculty studying in UNL’s architectural engineering and construction, and architecture programs are hammering out a 2,000-square-foot house in Omaha that is designed to provide more energy than it uses. Called […]
Two proposals won funding in round five of UNL’s Initiative for Teaching and Learning Excellence. Those proposals are a project to fund a summer study abroad visual literacy course in Japan and a project to create a capstone course for English majors. Projects nominated for ITLE 5 were to help students meet the requirements for […]
New vending, pouring rights contract valued at approximately $18 million UNL officials announced Feb. 27 a new agreement with Pepsi as the exclusive soft drink provider on the UNL campus. The original 12-year pouring and vending rights agreement with Pepsi will expire June 30. The new 10-year agreement with Pepsi, which was reached through a […]
You’ll get no static from this UNL invention. Really. UNL’s Industrial Agricultural Products Center has invented a technology that combines corn starch and polystyrene to make a packing peanut that combines the best features of the two substances. StarchTech, a Minnesota-based company, has an exclusive contract with UNL to commercially produce the product, which it […]
In a relatively short amount of time, computer science has delivered a number of big contributions to society. Take, for instance, the framework for the Digital Revolution, which paved the way for the Information Age and the Internet. There’s one area, though, where computer science hasn’t performed as well as some would like: to consistently […]
Senior news-editorial student Chris Rosacker has been selected to participate in the second annual Middle East Journalism Boot Camp in Egypt and Qatar. The American University in Cairo and Qatar University sponsor the three-week program in June. This is the second year a UNL journalism student will participate in the program. Graduate student Lisa Munger […]
Women’s Week, coordinated by the UNL Women’s Center, begins a series of educational and entertainment events March 9. All events except the March 12 banquet are free and open to the public. Departments and organizations can become co-sponsors of the banquet by purchasing a table (8 tickets for $180.) Individual tickets are available in room […]
Kathleen Wilson, associate professor of Education and Human Sciences, gives First Lady of Nebraska Sally Ganem (far right) a tour of the college’s evolving reading center in the Home Economics building on Feb. 25. The program involves a hands-on K-12 tutoring practicum for students in the departments of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education; Special Education […]
A recent study determined Nebraska has an assured wood supply to support strategically located woody biomass-based enterprises across the state. With funding from a U.S. Forest Service grant, the Nebraska Forest Service analyzed the amount of wood available for woody biomass applications and identified potential woody biomass consumers. According to the study, Nebraska has 1.3 […]
Have you ever heard the scurry of mice running through your house night after night or fought to keep that curious raccoon out of your garden? Have you struggled finding information to keep those unwanted critters from future visits? Answers for all wildlife questions – be they identification, prevention or management – are available at […]
