Two Husker faculty — Rick Bevins and Thomas Powers — have been selected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are selected by their peers for scientifically or socially distinguished achievements that advance science or its application.
In a quest to record the silence at his feet, Noori Choi found himself facing down the sound and fury of the skies — plus the shenanigans of curious wildlife. But the Husker would emerge with a way to document the vibrations that a quintillion arthropods employ to court mates, hunt prey and escape predators.
Ashlin Broz, a freshman nutritional science and dietetics major from Hayes Center, Nebraska, reacts as she checks the oxygen sensor during a photosynthesis experiment March 26 in a Manter Hall lab. The experiment is part of a Fundamentals of Biology course (LIFE 120L) offered through the School of Biological Sciences.
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A Nebraska team led by Shi-Hua Xiang and Joshua Wiggins are studying a bacterium in making cheese and buttermilk as a candidate to combat the deadly Ebola virus.
Nebraska’s Robert Zink has been busy waging a crusade to get scientists thinking beyond the confines of a traditional, jargon-heavy abstract. The effort has led to the creation of a contest through which students develop thesis or dissertation summaries that can be readily understudy by a layperson.