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April 02, 2013 - <span>Resolving inevitable glitches is expensive and time-consuming, but a University of Nebraska-Lincoln computer scientist thinks she can help programmers work more efficiently.</span>  Full Story

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March 21, 2013 - <span>When most tough fibres are stretched to make them thinner, they become brittle. But a group led by Yuris Dzenis at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has shown that this is not always the case.</span>  Full Story

A UNL team led by Yuris Dzenis (left) is making continuous carbon nanofibers, which offer advantages over nanotubes alone in structural materials. Images on the right are from Northwestern University via ACS Nano.
March 14, 2013 - <span>University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have demonstrated a promising new way to exploit carbon nanotubes' unusual structure and properties more easily and less expensively.</span>  Full Story

The UNL RASC-AL Robo-Ops team of engineering students must build a rover and remotely navigate it through obstacles in a NASA-sponsored competition versus other selected university teams' rovers. The team includes (from left): Allison Miller, Alex Adams, Eric Markvicka, Mark Reichenbach, Joe Bartels, Effie Greene, Lukas Renker and Kearney Lackas. Not pictured: Tom Frederick and Walter Bircher.
March 12, 2013 - <span>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln was one of eight teams chosen to compete in the 2013 RASC-AL Exploration Robo-Ops Competition, an engineering challenge sponsored by NASA and organized by the National Institute of Aerospace.</span>  Full Story

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March 06, 2013 - <span>Each year, more than a million Americans receive stents to prop open clogged heart arteries and other blood vessels, a<span>&nbsp;UNL engineer’s research may help save millions of people from</span>&nbsp;high risk for suffering reblockages.</span>  Full Story

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March 01, 2013 - <span>Nebraska Engineering Dean Tim Wei announced that&nbsp;</span><span>Daniel G. Linzell, Ph.D., P.E.</span><span>, will lead the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering’s Department of Civil Engineering, beginning this summer.</span>  Full Story

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February 14, 2013 - <span>On February 13, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Office of Graduate Studies awarded prestigious honors to a select group of UNL graduate students, adding further distinction to their recently completed degrees.</span>  Full Story

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February 13, 2013 - <span>On February 12, UNL women engineering students helped a Lincoln Brownie troop earn their “Inventor Badges,” and became role models for the girls’ interests in science, technology, engineering and math.</span>  Full Story

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January 29, 2013 - <span>Lyle Eugene Young&nbsp;</span><span>died Dec. 20, 2012 at age 93 in Lincoln.</span>  Full Story

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January 17, 2013 - <span>Two teams led by Nebraska Engineering students earned top-five status in the 2012 IBM.IEEE Smarter Planet Challege, an international competition&nbsp;</span><span>for college/university teams improving the world’s technology solutions.</span>  Full Story