Eight Nebraska faculty presented five-minute talks via Zoom about their work during the Faculty Research and Creative Activity Slam, part of this week’s Nebraska Research Days activities. Rochelle Dalla and Andre Maciel tied for top honors.
Ogre-faced spiders may boast the largest eyes among arachnids, but hearing — even minus the “ear” — is their spidey-sense of choice for netting moths, mosquitoes and other fly-by-night prey, says a new study from Nebraska and Cornell University.
Click through for a rundown of recent work from Nebraska’s Eileen Hebets and her lab, which has become an internationally recognized epicenter of arachnid-focused research and outreach.
Journeys launched by Husker Dialogues placed Saisha Adhikari and Carter Bracht on separate (but diverging) paths that have led to leadership skills, greater understanding on inclusivity and a desire to give back. Both are participating in their fourth-year of the diversity and inclusion event.
Nebraska’s Brian Couch and colleagues found that STEM faculty who use evidence-based teaching practices mostly talk to peers who are already familiar with those practices, limiting their dissemination across academia.
A Husker project to explore the use of eastern red cedar in construction has received a $28,412 grant from the Nebraska Environmental Trust.