Soybean plants grow on 5.35 million Nebraska acres and are in line for a record-breaking 2010 harvest, but what intrigues Maxey Elementary schoolchildren are the legumes growing in their classrooms. After all, soybean, while relevant to Nebraska, is a model organism that can promote understanding of real science, say collaborators of a soybean education project […]
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 […]
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 […]
More than 300 attend Latin Heritage Month Celebration — Photos by Troy Fedderson/University Communications
Kaiser Kuo, a journalist, technology trend-watcher and member of the Chinese rock band Tang Dynasty, will give the next lecture in the E.N. Thompson Forum on World Issues. His speech, “Shouting Across the Chasm: Chinese and American Netizens Clash in Cyberspace,” is also the Lewis E. Harris Lecture in Public Policy. It is 7 p.m. […]
Director of the UNL Confucius Institute, professor of mechanical engineering David Lou (pictured at left during a Voice of China radio interview) is director of the UNL Confucius Center and professor of mechanical engineering. He was born in China and his family moved to Taiwan in 1948. He came to the United States to pursue […]
The National Institutes of Health has released a new proposal application format that includes changes that will affect UNL faculty seeking funding and current NIH principal investigators. Kimberly Andrews Espy, associate vice chancellor for research, said NIH has reduced the number of pages allowed in grant applications, reformatted bio sketches and reorganized proposal components. The […]
A UNL surplus auction is 9 a.m. Oct. 3 at the City Campus Warehouse, 900 N. 22nd St. Doors open at 7:30 a.m. for viewing. The auction closes at 4 p.m. For more information, go to http://inventory.unl.edu/auctions/.
The Office of International Affairs has sessions each week for students interested in studying abroad. Students are encouraged to attend a “GO” session to help planning for a study abroad program. The sessions are held in the Office of International Affairs at 1 p.m. Wednesdays, 11 a.m. Thursdays and 4 p.m. Fridays. For more information, […]
