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Faculty Early Career Development Program

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Iverson aims to advance study of nanotubes in diagnosing diseases

April 28, 2022

Science & Technology

Ruiguo Yang, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is using a $540,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to explore how cell-cell bridges respond to strains of different magnitudes and rates.

Yang advancing work on cell-cell junctions and their link to human health

April 12, 2022

Science & Technology

Joseph Yesselman, assistant professor of chemistry, has received a five-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, which he will use to develop the first computational model that can reliably predict RNA’s capacity to form tertiary contacts.

Yesselman creating model to study RNA, gamify scientific learning

March 21, 2022

Science & Technology

Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is using a five-year, nearly $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to study how a process called non-photochemical quenching, or NPQ — a plant’s first-line defense against damage to its photosynthetic machinery — plays a role in enabling miscanthus to fend off cold-induced damage.

Glowacka’s research aims to enhance crops’ tolerance to the cold

March 14, 2022

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Kathryn Holland, assistant professor of psychology and women’s and gender studies, is using a National Science Foundation grant to study how two institutions of higher education are implementing federal guidelines that address sexual violence on campus.

Holland’s research aims for survivor-first approach to reporting sexual violence

February 21, 2022

Wei Bao, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received a five-year, $756,713 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to support his work to make quantum simulators function at room temperature.

Bao aims to make quantum systems function at room temps

February 16, 2022

Science & Technology

Jae Sung Park, assistant professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is aiming to solve one of the great problems in science — discovering patterns or orders in turbulent flows and then developing methods of exploiting these orders to mitigate their impact on the world.

Park aims to understand mysteries of turbulence to save lives, resources

February 3, 2022

Science & Technology

Lynne Elkins, assistant professor of Earth and atmospheric sciences at Nebraska, has earned a five-year, nearly $700,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to develop a tool that may shed light on the composition and movement of magma.

Elkins developing modeling tool to study makeup, movement of magma

August 5, 2021

Science & Technology

Siamak Nejati, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Nebraska, has received a five-year, $593,240 Faculty Early Career Development Program grant from the National Science Foundation to build on his previous research on molecular structures.

Nejati's molecular research earns CAREER award

July 16, 2021

Science & Technology

Justin Bradley, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at Nebraska, is using a nearly $500,000, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to give drones and other robots the ability to sense and adapt to a changing environment, diverting energy to the most important tasks at hand while pausing lower-priority work.

Bradley’s CAREER project to boost drones’ adaptability, performance

April 27, 2021

Science & Technology

Jack Jeffries, assistant professor of mathematics at Nebraska, has earned his department’s first-ever Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation. He will use the $400,000, five-year grant to advance his research in commutative algebra.

Jeffries' CAREER award bolsters Nebraska's mathematics expertise

April 7, 2021

Science & Technology

Catherine Eichhorn, assistant professor of chemistry at Nebraska, will use a five-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program to develop a clearer picture of the structure-function relationship in RNA and ribonucleoproteins, or RNPs, which are RNA-protein complexes. She’s focusing her work on 7SK RNP, a key player in regulating gene expression.

Eichhorn’s CAREER project to take in-depth look at structure, function of RNA

January 14, 2021

Science & Technology