Los Alamos researcher to lead energy center

Today@UNL   Thursday, December 15, 2011

Materials scientist Mike Nastasi will become director of UNL’s Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research on Jan. 3. Nastasi also will be a professor of mechanical and materials engineering and will hold the Elmer Koch Professorship. He comes to UNL from Los Alamos National Laboratory where he was a longtime researcher and, since 2009, directed the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Frontier Research Center on Materials at Irradiation of Mechanical Extremes. For more information, go to  http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl /839/5117

UNL Faculty: Next-Generation Biofuels Proposals

Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research Post-Secondary Curricula for Next-Generation Biofuels Application Deadline:  02/06/2012 This RFP seeks proposals for curricula development in the area(s) of 'next-generation' biofuels (e.g. new or emerging technologies) to create a skilled workforce that, in part, may attract business development and create employment opportunities within the state of Nebraska. Federal funds were granted to the Nebraska Department of Labor and made available for this purpose to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The Request for Proposals (RFP) is attached: RFP Post-Secondary Curricula for Next-Generation Biofuels