Office of Research and Economic Development: Recent Episodes
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Watch the March 30, 2023, Nebraska Lecture, "Declining Religion in the U.S.: The Causes and Consequences of Religious Disaffiliation Among Young Americans," presented by Husker sociologist Philip Schwadel.
Angie Pannier, Swarts Swarts Family Chair of biological systems engineering, delivered the Nebraska Lecture on Nov. 17, laying out the history of gene therapy and both the challenges and promises ahead.
Nebraska researchers Mohammad Hasan and Neeta Kantamneni are harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to help undergraduate STEM students improve their academic performance. -Shutterstock credit: Monkey Business/Shutterstock.com -Stock footage provided by Videvo, downloaded from www.videvo.net
Presented by Nathan Meier, assistant vice chancellor for research, and Jessie Herrmann, director of federal relations
Entire event video. The Nebraska Food for Health Center, a more than $40 million initiative to improve the lives of people around the world, was launched September 16, 2016 at the University of Nebraska.
Whole ecosystems are shifting dramatically north in the Great Plains, a phenomenon likely linked to human influences such as climate change, says new University of Nebraska-Lincoln research that analyzed nearly 50 years’ worth of data on bird distributions.
Charles Chesnutt is one of the most significant African American writers in American literature. Thanks to $292,627 in support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a team of Husker researchers will be able to expand a digital archive to include all of the writer’s published fiction and nonfiction work.
Through its space, cyber and telecommunications law program, the University of Nebraska leads the race to develop laws and manage conflict in space.
As part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Plant Science Innovation, James Schnable works to improve crops through genotyping and phenotyping using tools unique to Nebraska.
With nearly $1 million in support from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, a team of global researchers, led by Stephen Baenziger, is trying to foster the development of hybrid wheat. Their work could enhance food security and educate the next generation of wheat breeders.
With $1.75 million in support from the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, Nebraska researchers are learning how anglers use the state’s public lakes. Their work could influence stocking rates, regulations and lake rehabilitation.
This installment of the Nebraska Lecture series features Kari Ronning, editor of the Willa Cather Scholarly Edition and research associate professor of English.
Nebraska is engineering the future of surgical care with broken bone-mending pins that dissolve and robots that perform surgery inside the body.
Tim Borstelman delivers this month's Nebraska lecture. His presentation is titled "The Hearts of Foreigners: How Americans Understand Others." Dr. Borstelman is the EN and Katherine Thompson Professor of Modern World History.
Chancellor Ronnie Green, Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development Bob Wilhelm, and center director Kirk Dombrowski yesterday announced an $11.85 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to establish a research center focused on understanding and addressing drug addiction in the rural Midwest.
With a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the USDA’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, a Husker team, led by Nebraska engineer Xu Li, is developing new manure management practices to reduce the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria through livestock wastes.
The University of Nebraska partners with the Pentagon to combat some of the world's most serious threats.
Nebraska entomologist Joe Louis is investigating ways to help sorghum naturally resist sugarcane aphids, the crop’s most damaging pest in the United States. Louis earned a five-year, $1.5 million Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research.
University of Nebraska researchers build drones to aid in agriculture and wildfire fighting.
Nebraska engineer Michael Sealy is using multi-process asynchronous hybrid additive manufacturing techniques to create lighter and stronger metal materials that could have life-saving and money-saving applications. His research is supported by a five-year, $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program.
Audio podcast. Video of entire presentation with captions may be viewed here: https://youtu.be/4cG2zfn0lbo. John Sorensen speaks on "Grace and Edith Abbott: Nebraska's Social Justice Sisters." Sorensen is a Grace Abbott scholar and friend of the university with an extensive background in theater, film and literature. As the founding director of the Abbott Sisters Project, he has brought various mediums together to highlight and honor Grace and Edith. Sorensen has authored or edited three books about the sisters, including his most recent, "A Sister's Memory," which won the 2016 Nebraska Book Award for nonfiction historical biography.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln biochemist Rebecca Roston is working to identify the properties and pathways underlying a plant’s ability to thwart ice-cold temperatures, with the long-term goal of enabling scientists to engineer freeze-tolerant crops. Roston earned a five-year, nearly $850,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to advance this work.
Bonita Sharif is an assistant professor of computer science and engineering. Her lab creates tools to help software developers improve their work processes.
With $981,012 in continued support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Nebraska research group is making thousands of pages from historically-significant newspapers available digitally. The team, led by Kay Walter of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, is placing publications that date back to 1854 online. More information can be found at nebnewspapers.unl.edu
Audio Podcast. Video of entire presentation with captions may be viewed here: https://youtu.be/fuOHJjspY4E The Nebraska Lecture with Kay Logan-Peters, “Building Nebraska U: The Saga of University Hall and the Origins of the Modern University.” Logan-Peters is professor of libraries and an unofficial historian on campus architecture. She created an online resource that traces the timeline of university buildings (up to 1965) and is the author of “University of Nebraska–Lincoln,” a book that features more than 180 historic images of Nebraska U.
Toshihiro Obata, a Nebraska assistant professor of biochemistry, is investigating a key component of metabolic regulation that will improve scientific understanding of metabolism and the many ways it can go awry. Obata’s work is supported by a five-year, nearly $750,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation.
The Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research (NCESR), a collaboration between the Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), was established in April 2006 to conduct research on renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and energy conservation; and to expand economic opportunities and improve quality of life for Nebraska and the nation.
Audio Podcast. Video of entire presentation with captions may be viewed here: https://youtu.be/H-3jpjgmSiM
Charlyne Berens presents the January 2019 lecture entitled "Nebraska's Unicameral: Still Progressive After All These Years." Berens is Professor Emeritus and Former Associate Dean of the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at University of Nebraska-Lincoln.