This project will involve modeling the physics of artificial microfluidic robots using concepts from mathematical modeling, acoustics, and microfluidics. Undergraduates with strong interest in physics/math/programming are encouraged to apply.
Paid by UCARE funding, Paid by faculty funding, or Volunteer.
Hours Per Week
10
Our lab studies how viruses manipulate the human immune system. Specifically, we are focused on how HCMV (a common human herpesvirus) infects and controls hematopoietic stem cells (the foundational cell for the immune system). Projects in the lab address fundamental questions about viral biology, stem cell biology, and immune system development, and students will learn to use tools and techniques from biochemistry, virology, immunology, and stem cell biology.
The project aims to use 3D bioprinting to fabricate in vitro tissue models. Specifically, the ongoing work is to recreate a 3D layered skin tissue. The research work will take advantage of the different types of state-of-the-art 3D tissue printing platforms to contribute to the broad literature of biotechnology. In addition, the students will learn tissue culture and regeneration, biological characterization, advanced microscopy as well as engineering design.
Water flows within a watershed and does not respect political boundaries (e.g., national or state borders). Yet, much of US water governance is based upon human-imposed delineations of the landscape. For example, in many places, county-level governments are responsible for managing the water that flows through their jurisdictions. This mismatch between hydrology and units of governance can result in the mismanagement of important (and often scarce) water resources.
Radio telemetry is an important and widely-used tool for wildlife biologists in obtaining information on animal movements, survival, and habitat use. Typically, radio telemetry consists of locating an individual animal by “tri-angulating” – i.e., using a radio-receiver and antenna and taking 3 or more bearings and then determining its location at the intersection of the bearings. Accurate locations are required and need to be taken in an expeditious manner (which decreases either the extent or probability the animal moves).
This application seeks students to help complete construction drawings for Eastern Redcedar Design-Build Microdwelling. This project NET grant-funded project is the latest in a series of collaborations between UNL’s College of Architecture “design-build” program and Cedar Point Biostation in Ogallala. Other collaborations include the completion of the ACSA award-wining Baxa Cabin in 2018.
May begin immediately for hourly wage, UCARE funding begins June 1
Hours Per Week
20 hr/week in summer, 10 hr/week in academic year
Seeking an interdisciplinary cohort of undergraduate researchers, designers, coders, thinkers, innovators and creative makers. Join this unique opportunity to be a member of this new lab within the Center for Emerging Media Arts on the UNL campus.
Fluid flow-induced shear stress environment is an important regulatory cue in breast cancer cell migration and resultant metastasis. For example, interstitial flow from elevated pressures in tumors has been implicated in breast cancer cell migration. Despite the important role of flow situation in regulating these processes, the mechanical to biochemical signal transduction (mechanotransduction) pathways in the cancer cell remains to be elucidated.
For a stem cell, the future is wide open. It can divide infinitely to create more stem cells, or it can grow up into other kinds of cells, taking its place in the heart, brain, or other organs. It’s important that stem cells be protected from infection: some of them are starting material for babies, and others make up a crucial reservoir to build or rebuild body tissues as needed. An intruder that damaged or killed stem cells would be disastrous, but how they go about protecting themselves has been a decades-long mystery.
Campus Recreation will be celebrating 100 years of collegiate recreation at Nebraska for the 2020-21 academic year. Our department is seeking assistance in production of a video to capture recreation at the University of Nebraska over the last 100 years.