As an electrical engineer, Khalid Sayood studies the need to efficiently store, manipulate and transmit large masses of information. The UNL professor’s specialty – data compression – looks at how information is organized and then compacts the data so its applications, such as cell phones and computer programs, don’t become unwieldy. Now, a partnership with […]
Family sport grows into club sponsorship Curling has slid into the house of the Big Red. And Nancy Myers is helping build a slow roll of momentum for the 16th-century sport developed in Scotland. “UNL has had an official club team through Campus Recreation since 2008,” said Myers, the club’s sponsor and UNL’s director of […]
Curling is family time for Greg Gunderson. An assistant dean for Business and Fiscal Affairs in the College of Engineering, Gunderson has been curling for about 25 years. Today, as a member of the Aksarben Curling Club, he’s following in his father’s footsteps and drawing family to the ice. “My dad grew up curling in […]
Verbatem – Chancellor Harvey Perlman issued this March 9 e-mail about plans for budget reductions totaling more than $3.5 million. Colleagues, As you know from a previous e-mail to you, we are working to reduce UNL’s budget by $5.2 million this spring as a part of the reductions we will be required to make over […]
UNL scientists say that recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile temporarily affected groundwater levels in Nebraska. The hydroseismic activity – the effect that seismic waves have on groundwater – likely would have been missed if not for a decades-old instrument. Jesse Korus checked on the water well near Aurora on March 2 and found a […]
Dreiling selected to attend annual meetings that feature Nobel winners In June, Joan Dreiling will make her first international trip. Her destination is Lindau, Germany, where Dreiling will rub elbows with a few dozen Nobel laureates. Not a bad capstone for the end of her second year as a graduate student. The Lindau Laureate meetings […]
A planned exhibition of contemporary Navajo weavings at the University of Nebraska State Museum has received a $9,335 grant from the Cooper Foundation. The exhibit, opening in October in Morrill Hall, includes educational programming for youth and adults. Three Navajo weavers will visit Lincoln and interact with artists, educators and members of the local Native […]
The Cornhusker women’s basketball team is best in the Big 12 Conference – both on the hardwood and in the classroom. Along with being the Big 12 regular-season champions, the Husker squad scored a league-leading six first-team academic All-Big 12 selections. Seniors Kelsey Griffin, Cory Montgomery, Kala Kuhlmann, Nicole Neals and Nikki Bober were joined […]
UNL’s new Jackie Gaughan Multicultural Center will open to campus on March 22. Open house events are planned from March 22 to 26. The $8.7 million, three-floor building – linked to the east side of the Nebraska Union – features 30,000 square feet of space, including student offices, tutoring rooms and areas for faculty, staff […]
If you are driving and see a tornado, should you stop the car and jump in the ditch or should you stay in the car? The answer to these and other weather related questions will be answered at the 10th annual Central Plains Severe Weather Symposium and Family Weatherfest, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., March […]
