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Checco earns NIH research award

James Checco and his research group earned a Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) for Early Stage Investigators (ESIs) from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), part of the National Institutes of Health.

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Stephen Morin / Ali Mazaltarim

New technique acts as accelerator, brake for microscopic droplets

Professor Stephen Morin and doctoral candidate Ali Mazaltarim have demonstrated unprecedented control over the movement of liquid droplets on flat surfaces. That control could make the technique useful in self-cleaning materials, water harvesting and other applications. Their research has been published in Nature Communications.

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NU receives $20 million grant to advance quantum research, education

The University of Nebraska has received a five-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to create a research and education cluster aimed at enhancing the state’s competitiveness in the field of emergent quantum materials and technologies, and boosting the participating institutions’ research and education capacity.

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Bergmeyer Retirement Reception to be Held June 3

Peg Bergmeyer, the resource center staff assistant in the Department of Chemistry, will retire in June after 25 years of service to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. A virtual retirement reception celebrating Bergmeyer’s career is 2 p.m. June 3 via Zoom. Registration required to receive the Zoom information.

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