UNL will grant degrees to more than 2,900 students in commencement ceremonies on May 9 and 10. Pinnacle Bank Arena will be the site of the ceremonies for approximately 550 graduate and professional degree recipients at 3 p.m. May 9 and for approximately 2,300 baccalaureate degree recipients at 9:30 a.m. May 10. Approximately 100 students […]
Shane Farritor, professor with the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, is developing surgical robotics that could someday remove a gallbladder via a pair of pills passing through the human body. To develop this and other minimally invasive surgical procedures, Farritor collaborates with Dmitry Oleynikov, professor of surgery, director of the Center for Minimally Invasive […]
Four UNL faculty earned the University of Nebraska’s most prestigious awards for research, creative activity, teaching and engagement. Those earning the honors for UNL are Shane Farritor, professor of mechanical engineering; Susan Sheridan, professor of educational psychology; Judy Walker, professor of mathematics; and Donald Weeks, professor of biochemistry. The universitywide awards, announced April 4, recognize […]
UNL Police Chief Owen Yardley is helping a federal committee to craft regulations for the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination (Campus SaVE) Act. The legislation reauthorizes the Violence Against Women Act and amends the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act to further address the violence women face on college campuses. […]
Alex Mallory has earned a 2014 Udall Scholarship. The junior history and political science major is the first UNL student to receive the award. Established in 1992, the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation provides $5,000 scholarships to students who have shown a commitment to careers related to the environment and to Native […]
Sometimes it’s hard to find beauty in everyday life. Not for Judy Walker. “Mathematics really is beautiful,” she said. “Helping students look at mathematics beyond just a set of rules and procedures and see it instead as truth and as beauty is what I enjoy doing.” Walker, chair and Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics, demonstrates […]
Don Weeks grew up on a small farm in Indiana and remembers taking in the raising of livestock and plants with great interest. It was his freshman botany instructor at Purdue University who whetted that appetite. “He opened my eyes to things I’d been seeing all my life but not understanding,” Weeks said. That curiosity […]
A career dedicated to improving children’s development has earned Susan Sheridan the University of Nebraska’s highest honor for research. Sheridan, a George Holmes University Professor of educational psychology and founding director of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, received the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity award. Sheridan has spent more […]
University of Nebraska engineers and doctors are teaming up across campus lines to advance bioengineering research. The project — Bioengineering for Human Health Grants Initiative — is a joint effort funded by vice chancellors for research at UNL and the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Three research groups have been funded through the initiative. “What […]
Where others see black tar and white reflective rooftops, Richard Sutton sees a green opportunity. A professor with a dual appointment in agronomy and horticulture, and landscape architecture, Sutton is developing less expensive and more reliable procedures to grow native prairie grasses and wildflowers in place of traditional sedums in green roof applications. Sutton started […]
