University of Nebraska-Lincoln

With work on surgical robotics happening daily at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering, students will reach new heights -- literally 35,000 feet -- to conduct research for NASA on robotic surgery for space travel. A UNL engineering team will return for its seventh year with NASA's Microgravity University later this spring, this time studying the effects of microgravity on robotic capsule endoscope (RCE) propulsion and tissue adhesion techniques in the small intestine.

Brianna Foster, a senior broadcasting journalism and news-editorial major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is among a select group of students chosen for a fellowship program to increase diversity in the broadcast news industry.

This year, a team of University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students will pilot a free-flying vehicle--like the radio-controlled helicopters popular as holiday gifts--not to escape their courses, but to help NASA research. Selected university teams will perform experiments on reduced gravity missions flying from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, July 26-Aug. 3, during the 2013 NASA SEED Microgravity University. It's the sixth consecutive year that UNL has qualified for the program. NASA Microgravity University conducts scientific research that helps the U.S. space program advance its efforts. Projects are prepared by students with mentoring from NASA and industry representatives, then conducted during "Flight Week" aboard a series of parabolic flights in specially-equipped aircraft that reach 35,000 feet in altitude. Area students on the UNL microgravity team include:

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Arts and Sciences has named 11 new members to its Dean's Scholars Society. Local students selected include:

Twenty-four senior students have been selected as Homecoming royalty finalists at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The students include:

Thirty high-achieving 2011 high school graduates have been accepted into the highly competitive and prestigious Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the fall semester, which begins Aug. 22. Students from this area include: