New Equipment Brings New Possibilities to the Water Sciences Lab
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Students to present research fair Aug. 5 at Panhandle Center
Lincoln, Neb. —University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who are based at the UNL Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center this summer will present a Student Research Fair on Thursday, Aug. 5, from 6-8 p.m.
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Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory Open House set for August 25
Lincoln, Neb. —The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Gudmundsen Sandhills Laboratory will host its 22nd annual open house Aug. 25 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Panhandle Perspectives: 100-year corn yield data from the historic Knorr-Holden Plot in Nebraska
Lincoln, Neb. —The commitment of generations of dedicated soil scientists in maintaining and managing the historic Knorr-Holden Plot near Scottsbluff for more than a century came to fruition in a recently published manuscript in Agronomy Journal.
104 undergrads receive stipends for summer research projects
Lincoln, Neb. —The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 104 undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer.
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Quiñones puts coding expertise, global perspectives to use
Lincoln, Neb. —In scientific terms, University of Nebraska–Lincoln doctoral student Rubi Quiñones is an outlier.
The computer science major knows 10 coding languages and four spoken languages — English, Spanish, Chinese and Korean. Since meeting and marrying her Bangladeshi husband at Nebraska, she has begun adding Bangla to the list.
Her research in computer science also sets her apart from colleagues.
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23 faculty awarded Nebraska Environmental Trust grants
Lincoln, Neb. —The Nebraska Environmental Trust has awarded 23 grants totaling more than $2.1 million to University of Nebraska–Lincoln projects.
The grants were awarded by the NET board last month, part of 113 projects receiving more than $18.35 million.
31 Husker researchers named NSRI Fellows
Lincoln, Neb. —The National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska has launched NSRI Fellows to amplify the university system’s research contributions to the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with national security missions.
Team IDs key to sorghum’s heat resilience, aims to boost corn’s tolerance
Lincoln, Neb. —Although sorghum is known to be much more heat- and drought-tolerant than its close relative corn, the underlying reason for this difference is not well-established. Solving this mystery may be key to developing corn that is more resilient to high temperatures and the often dry summer conditions in Nebraska and other parts of the Midwest.
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