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Janos Zempleni is leader of the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases. The research center recently received an $11 million extension grant from the National Institutes of Health.

$11M grant launches obesity center's next phase

October 14, 2019

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, leads the Nebraska Center for the Prevention of Obesity Diseases through Dietary Molecules. The center has received an additional $11 million from the National Institutes of Health’s Center of Biomedical Research Excellence program, or COBRE, to continue another five years.

Center earns $11 million to continue obesity-prevention research

October 14, 2019

Nebraska biochemist investigates cells’ ‘power supply’ for disease clues

October 2, 2019

Science & Technology

Yanbin Yin (right), associate professor of food science and technology, looks over algae samples with postdoctoral researcher Xuehuan Feng. Yin has earned a National Science Foundation CAREER award to create advanced computational tools to quickly identify carbohydrate-active enzymes, or CAZymes.

CAREER award helps Yin develop tools to find key enzymes

August 1, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Kirk Dombrowski, John Bruhn Professor of sociology at Nebraska, will lead the university’s new Rural Drug Addiction Research Center.

Rural drug use is focus of $11.85M NIH grant

April 24, 2019

Science & Technology

Joe Louis, Harold and Esther Edgerton assistant professor of entomology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has earned a five-year, $1.5 million Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research into helping sorghum naturally resist sugarcane aphids.

Study of sorghum-munching aphids earns NSF award

April 17, 2019

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Bonita Sharif, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Nebraska, is using eye-tracking technology to analyze how software programmers work in order to develop tools that help them write code better and faster. She has earned a $432,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to fund the research and related student workshops.

Sharif eyes how to help software developers write better code

February 25, 2019

Science & Technology

Toshihiro Obata, assistant professor of biochemistry at Nebraska, is investigating a key component of metabolic regulation that will improve scientific understanding of metabolism and the many ways it can go awry. He has earned a five-year, nearly $750,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to continue his research.

Award bolsters Obata's research into metabolic missteps

February 18, 2019

Science & Technology

Marc Libault

Nebraska plant scientist digs deeper into soybeans and soil bacteria

December 4, 2018

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Timothy Nelson, associate professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is studying how certain cognitive processes that develop throughout childhood affect health behaviors during adolescence and beyond.

Nebraska researchers eye link between cognitive abilities, weight

September 20, 2018

Science & Technology

Maital Neta (front) was recently awarded a Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to study how humans respond differently to uncertainty. In this photo illustration, graduate students Catie Brown and Nick Harp react to a man dressed in a bodysuit to represent ambiguity.

Project explores why aging brains stay on the sunny side

July 3, 2018

Science & Technology

Brittany Duncan, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Nebraska, has earned a nearly $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation to develop software that allows drones to communicate through movement and maintain comfortable distances from people.

Duncan's CAREER project aims to ease people's discomfort around drones

May 11, 2018

Science & Technology