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Linxia Gu, associate professor of mechanical and materials engineering, is lead author in a study that examines how improvised explosive devices impact blood vessel networks and can lead to traumatic brain injury.

Engineers find blast waves have greater impacts on brain

June 10, 2015

Li Tan

Engineers introduce design that mimics nature’s camouflage

April 17, 2015

Research by UNL's (from left) Ziguang Chen and Florin Bobaru has led to the creation of a new model that better predicts the effects of corrosion. The study was published in the Feb. 27 online edition of the Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.

Researchers craft model that predicts corrosion

March 18, 2015

Joe Turner

NSF-funded project explores plant cell growth

March 2, 2015

UNL, UNMC receive $2.8M for robotic telesurgery research

February 10, 2015

Jinsong Huang

Engineers demonstrate solar cell material’s vast potential

January 30, 2015

Consumers are asking questions about the food-production system they've never asked before, and agriculture needs to do a better job of answering those questions, panelists at a UNL lecture on Nov. 6 agreed.

Six picked for innovation, entrepreneurship project

January 19, 2015

Jinsong Huang

Engineers ID, address cause of solar cell issue

December 15, 2014

From left, George Gogos, Sidy Ndao, Dennis Alexander

UNL team works to create better energy transfer in space

October 29, 2014

Shane Farritor (right), professor of mechanical engineering, has earned the Innovation, Development and Engagement Award for his collaboration with Dmitry Oleynkiv, a professor of surgery at UNMC.

IDEA honors robotics, surgery collaboration

May 1, 2014

UNL-Stanford research advances organic semiconductors for electronics

January 7, 2014

Bin Yang (left) receives a Gold Award from Orlando Auciello, president of the Materials Research Society.

Engineering student earns top honor

December 19, 2013