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Katherine Johnson gives a poster presentation on the research she completed in partnership with EQUATE.

EQUATE offers graduate student opportunities

May 6, 2025

Girl smiles at camera while family is engaged in STEM activity.

Sunday With a Scientist Goes Quantum

March 11, 2025

Data storage center. Quantum Computing Database Cloud.

Quantum computing conference registration closes Feb. 28

February 21, 2025

Photos of Abdelghani Laraoui (left) and Yanan 'Laura' Wang (right).

EQUATE scientists earn NSF EPSCoR awards

December 17, 2024

Zuocheng Zhang, assistant professor with UNL Physics & Astronomy, began work at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2024 (UNL photo)

EQUATE-funded Zhang joins UNL Physics faculty

December 9, 2024

An EQUATE-funded study was featured on the front cover of the October 24, 2024 edition of Advanced Optical Materials. The research was led by Ufuk Kilic, Eva Schubert, and Mathias Schubert (pictured from top to bottom, right).

Advance Optical Materials cover features EQUATE FRG2 research

November 27, 2024

Alexander Sinitskii (right), professor of chemistry, leads a team exploring the physical properties of MXenes, a fast-growing family of two-dimensional materials with potential for many nanotechnology applications. From left is Md. Ibrahim Kholil and Rashmeet Khurana, both graduate students in chemistry, and Saman Bagheri, postdoctoral research associate in chemistry.

Husker team explores potential of MXenes for nanotech applications

November 26, 2024

Riada Riyangow uses a pipette while learning about biological sciences research in a Manter Hall lab. The global impact of Nebraska’s research enterprise continues to make impacts as 180 Husker scientists have been included on the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists List. The publication is the definitive list of research that has the greatest influence across each field of study.

EQUATE researchers ranked among most influential

October 23, 2024

Adam Erickson adjusts a large, complex microscope.

From Nebraska Today

Nebraska breakthrough opens door to next-gen electronics

September 18, 2024

Researchers fabricated an optical element that uses a forest of tiny, antenna-like nanorods, seen here, that together create a metamaterial able to control the spin of light. The metamaterial nanorods appear to be shaped like the letter “L” when seen at the nanoscale.

L-shaped metamaterials can control light direction and identify, sort molecules

May 23, 2024

Abdelghani Laraoui

Nebraska-developed quantum sensing technique could facilitate advances in multiple fields

February 28, 2024

Xia Hong (left), professor of physics, with doctoral advisee Yifei Hao at a lab in Jorgensen Hall. Hong, Hao and their colleagues have discovered a layered combination of nanomaterials that could help scale down the transistor, a vital component of digital technology.

New material design for transistors could downsize next-gen tech

February 2, 2024