http://ucommxsrv1.unl.edu/unlnews/ University of Nebraska-Lincoln In The News en-us Copyright 2005 University of Nebraska-Lincoln http://www.unl.edu/favicon.gif http://www.unl.edu/ http://www.physorg.com/news165510685.html Finding a way to observe and record the behavior of matter at the molecular level has long been a holy grail among physicists. Now, a team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has figured out a possible way to do that ... Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:04:11 CDT http://columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/06/25/TEHRAN_TWITTER.html?sid=101 UNL journalism professor Barney McCoy says though the digital sea change holds "incredible democracy-building potential" in the face of oppressive regimes, it doesn't necessarily pass the credibility test ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:17:19 CDT http://abcnews.go.com/Health/GlobalHealth/story?id=7847413&page=1 Scott Lyell Gardner, curator and professor at UNL's Manter Laboratory of Parasitology, discusses fish tapeworm in the wake of a man being infested from eating raw fish ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:12:33 CDT http://www.nola.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-29/1246135096281630.xml&storylist=health Mike Dodd's research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has found clues that if your eyes are not in a search mode, they can lock onto an object more quickly ... Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:48:12 CDT http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/06/22/Scientists-find-a-way-to-hike-X-ray-power/UPI-76331245679359/ Scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russia's Voronezh State University said their achievement moves three-dimensional, real-time X-ray imaging closer to reality ... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:55:45 CDT http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000003149678 UNL political scientist Paul Landow says that even when voters elected Democrats in the 2nd District, it has always been a 'leans Republican' district, which means that Rep. Lee Terry is in a solid position to continue on for as long as he cares to ... Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:48:29 CDT http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/06/17/study-gives-clues-to-increasing-x-rays-power.html 3-Dl, real-time X-ray images of patients could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at UNL and a pair of Russian institutes ... Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:41:23 CDT http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09162/976572-28.stm?cmpid=news.xml UNL political scientist Michael Wagner was tapped to explain the rhetoric of energy, in which a commodity is spoken of like a drug, geographical designations become pejoratives and new phrases gain currency without ever being clearly defined ... Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:41:28 CDT http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1900245-3,00.html UNL political scientist Andrew Wedeman says graft was rife in construction projects long before the current economic downturn. "Public spending is already subject to considerable siphoning off and, perhaps even more critically, waste ... Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:17:36 CDT http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/article1008717.ece Susan Swearer, associate professor of educational psychology, said schools must look hard for signs of bullying and not ignore parents or students who say it's happening ... Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:32:57 CDT http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/09/bird-flu-landfills.html UNL environmental engineer Shannon Bartelt-Hunt's research shows that after an outbreak of the bird flu, most carcasses end up in landfills. There, the virus can survive for up to two years ... Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:46:25 CDT http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/06/09/summer UNL is looking at an increase in headcount of more than 4 percent for its 2009 summer classes, which Director of Summer Sessions Paul Savory said is probably attributable to economic factors. Savory said the university this year is in a particularly strong position to capitalize on student interest in ... Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:03:35 CDT http://features.csmonitor.com/economyrebuild/2009/05/15/how-to-tell-when-the-boss-is-dodgy/ Can you trust the people who run the company you work for and the firms you invest in? Here's one suggestion: Read them. Carefully. A recent UNL study found that the CEOs' annual letters to shareholders could be quite illuminating ... Tue, 26 May 2009 15:13:51 CDT http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/fashion/21spy.html?_r=1 UNL's Dawn Braithwaite, who studies rituals, was tapped by The Times to discuss the ways couples can use a "vow renewal" ceremony to renew their commitment to friends and family. “Renewing your vows gives a couple a chance to say, 'There are all these people who are part of us ... Tue, 26 May 2009 08:45:09 CDT http://www.statesman.com/business/content/shared-gen/ap/High_Tech/US_TEC_Facebook_Names.html Facebook's effort to purge its site of fake accounts is knocking out some real people. UNL graduate student Nancy Kelsey started a group called "Facebook: don't discriminate against Native surnames!!!" on the site. The group has more than 3,200 members, including some with Native last names who've had their account ... Tue, 19 May 2009 16:49:00 CDT http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/story?id=7599632&page=1 If a large asteroid -- or even a smaller, city-destroying rock -- were detected on a collision course, would the world be prepared to handle it? A conference of legal experts that discussed this question at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln answered it with a resounding "No ... Tue, 19 May 2009 16:40:52 CDT http://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/hbc-90004965 Addressing a class of newly minted lawyers at his alma mater, Ted Sorenson raised a loud note of concern about the lawyers who he said betrayed their calling by implementing the Bush Administration's torture policies ... Thu, 14 May 2009 10:51:42 CDT http://www.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2009/05/11/daily12.html The locations were selected using guidelines developed by roadside safety expert Dean Sicking of the University of Nebraska ... Wed, 13 May 2009 12:29:09 CDT http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:dyGpl3bo-VoJ:www.miamiherald.com/business/nation/story/1041686.html+spot+weak+rails+before+derailment&cd=7&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari In the midst of the miles-long coal trains crossing the Plains, researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are measuring how much the rails bend as fully loaded Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe cars pass ... Sun, 10 May 2009 16:41:25 CDT http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/05/06/walk-on-water---how-do-bugs-do-it.html Self-cleaning walls, counter tops, fabrics, even micro-robots that can walk on water -- all those things and more could be closer to reality because of research recently completed by scientists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and at Japan's RIKEN institute ... Fri, 08 May 2009 14:16:07 CDT