The Innovator of the Year award was presented to Paul Blum, professor of biological sciences, for advancing novel research into significant commercial utilization. Blum’s innovations make ethanol less expensive to produce and help progress hydrogen as a clean energy source.
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Four emerging UNL scholars have joined the ranks of Nobel Prize winners and a Google co-founder by earning the longest-running fellowship available to U.S. graduate students. The scholars — (from left) Tasneem Bouzid, Abigail Riemer, William Jamieson and Tyler Corey — each received National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Registration is open for UNL SciComm 2015, a symposium on effective science communication. The free symposium is 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 4 at the Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center. Registration is open through Sept. 20.
An $8.1 million renovation is transforming 40-year-old biological sciences laboratories in UNL's Manter Hall into modern lab spaces designed to further digital learning and foster interdisciplinary collaborations.
Dr. Ronald Hoy from Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior will be speaking on his research as part of the School of Biological Sciences Seminar series. His prese
UNL ecologist John DeLong has co-authored the first study to quantify the relationship between human population growth and energy use on an international scale.