July 06, 2015 - John Stansbury, associate professor of civil engineering, says the stormwater management projects in eastern Nebraska have held up well despite the record-breaking rain this spring that has brought flooding to some areas.
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June 16, 2015 - Using a high-tech laser scanner and a drone, Richard Wood, assistant professor of civil engineering professor, and his graduate students analyzed the wreckage after a tornado ripped through the town of Pilger, Nebraska, nearly a year ago.
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May 13, 2015 - Shelly Jorgensen's final year of work toward a degree in civil engineering would be a challenge with her family moving to California, but she says receiving a Chi Epsilon National Scholarship will make things a little easier.
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May 07, 2015 - A team of UNL civil engineers, led by associate professor Richard Wood, are using 3D technology to study a middle school building that was destroyed by the 2014 Pilger tornado to find ways to make older builiding safer in severe weather.
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May 05, 2015 - A team of civil engineers from UNL, headed by associate professor Maria Szerszen (pictured), joined the Nebraska Department of Roads in testing stress levels on two 80-year-old bridges in Lincoln before demolition began Tuesday.
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May 01, 2015 - A team of researchers, headed by UNL civil engineering associate professors Xu Li and Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, has been awarded the 2015 Grand Prize for University Research by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists.
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May 01, 2015 - Gov. Pete Ricketts has appointed Dan Linzell, UNL’s chair of civil engineering, to the Nebraska Board of Engineers and Architects, which oversees the laws and rules for licensing engineers and architects.
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March 11, 2015 - An Engineers Without Borders team, comprised of UNL students and faculty advisers, is returning to a village in Madagascar this summer to provide electricity and access to clean water.
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March 10, 2015 - What happens to our health when antibiotics seep into the environment? Dr. Xu Li, assistant professor of Civil Engineering, says that bacteria could become antibiotic-resistant, possibly leading to contamination of water or food sources.
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February 20, 2015 - A team that includes a UNL associate professor of civil engineering, has released a study that suggests prions responsible for chronic wasting and other diseases can be degraded by the rain and sun that fall upon the soil the prions often live in.
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