The Spring 2017 Research Fair hosted one-hundred and sixty-eight UNL graduate students on  April 5 in the Nebraska Union. These students gathered to showcase their research and creative accomplishments by displaying posters.  Twelve of those students were sponsored by Energy Center projects. All of the posters were judged.  Winners in the various categories received a travel grant.  Erome Daniel Hankore, one of the Energy Center students, received a $400 travel grant for her poster.   To view the posters, click here .

Back Row: Michael Nastasi (Director NCESR), Andrew Myers (intern), Ehsan Rezaei (Postdoc with Joseph Turner), Evan Updike (intern), Adam Liska (faculty advisor to Evan), Alan Dostal (NPPD), Nang Nguyen (NPPD). Front Row: Quynh Tran (intern), David Berkowiz (faculty advisor to Quynh), Matthew Penne (intern), Wei Qiao (faculty advisor to Matthew), Jerry Hudgins (Associate Director NCESR)

Four undergraduate students were selected as recipients of the Darrell J. Nelson Summer Undergraduate Internship in Energy Sciences Research for the summer of 2017.  The four recipients and their supervising faculty members are:  Quynh Tran (David Berkowitz, Department of Chemistry),  Matthew Penne (Wei Qiao, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering), Andrew Myers (Joseph Turner, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering), and Evan Updike (Adam Liska, Department of Biological Systems Engineering).  The internship is named after Mr. Darrell J. Nelson, who served 41 years on the Custer County Public Power District and Nebraska Public Power (NPPD) Boards.  Continue reading →

Professor Peter A Dowben from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Physics and Astronomy Department presented a lecture on his energy sciences research (“Interface-Engineered Materials for High-Efficiency All-Organics Solar Cells”) at the “COMSTECH-CIIT Joint International Workshop on Modern Trends in Computation and Experimentation towards the Rational Design of Materials for Energy Needs” in Pakistan.  The workshop was held May 22-26, 2017.  To learn more about the conference, go to http://comstech.org/comstech-ciit-2017.aspx