Forthcoming/Current

A 2008 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference will be held October 28, 2008 at the Cornhusker Marriott Hotel in Lincoln. Check back for details.

Past

The first speaker in the Nebraska EPSCoR RII Seminar Series, Dr. Joel Eissenberg, will be in Lincoln May 1, 2008, to give a seminar and visit with interested faculty.  His seminar is at 11:00 a.m. in 237 Walter Scott Engineering Center (WSEC) on UNL's downtown campus on May 1.  The seminar will be video conferenced to the UNMC campus at 3042 Wittson Hall for anyone from Omaha who is interested.  Click here for the seminar abstract.

Dr. Eissenberg's research interests include mechanisms of gene regulation at the level of transcription. In particular, he is interested in the relationship between chromatin structure and transcription. He has also started a project recently on lysosomal enzyme trafficking in Drosophila.  Click here for his shortened CV.

NSF EPSCoR Program Head, Dr. Henry Blount, gave presentation "NSF EPSCoR: Partnerships for Progress" at the UNL Research Fair on April 1, 2008. The National Science Foundation’s Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) is designed to fulfill the NSF’s mandate to promote scientific progress nationwide. The EPSCoR program directs its resources at those states that have historically received lesser amounts of NSF research and development (R&D) funding. Twenty-five states (including Nebraska), one commonwealth, and one U.S. territory currently participate. Through this program, NSF establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry designed to effect lasting improvements in a state’s or region’s research infrastructure and R&D capacity, hence improving its national R&D competitiveness. View Dr. Blount's presentation here.

NIH SBIR Program Manager Dr. Jo Anne Goodnight gave workshop "From Lab to Life" on October 11, 2007 discussing opportunities offered by the National Institutes for Health (NIH) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program.  Highlights of the workshop included:

- Discovering what research NIH is seeking, what money is available and how to get proposals funded;

- Learning how the pilot manufacturing assistance program, Commercialization Assistance Program (CAP), and Pipeline to Partnerships (P2P) help small businesses commercialize innovation;

- Finding out how to stay informed about funding and partnerships opportunities, how to assess a partnership fit and important “dos and don’ts”; and

- Learning about the services NIH programs offer to help move an idea into the marketplace, including identifying other uses for technologies, market strategies, strategic planning, alliance building and investor partnerships, and manufacturing and operational consulting. View Dr. Goodnight's presentation here.

The Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference was held March 21, 2007 at the Qwest Center in Omaha. See Student Poster Winners!

Nebraska Innovation Forum

The first Nebraska Innovation Forum was held March 30, 2006 at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln.

Nebraska Research Expo
The second annual Nebraska Research Expo was held March 29, 2006 at the Cornhusker Marriott in Lincoln.

Scientists and engineers heard Dr. Kurt Preston speak on "DoD Funding Insights for University Principal Investigators." Dr. Preston is Chief of the Environmental Sciences Division of the Army Research Office (ARO), the principal conduit of resources from the Army to the national university science community for the performance of basic research. He discussed DoD funding priorities and opportunities on March 15, 2006 at UNL. Dr. Preston was also available for individual meetings. On March 16, 2006, he spoke at UNMC. Before being assigned as the environmental Division Chief and upon arrival at the ARO in 2002, Dr. Preston began duties as the Army’s program manager for the Defense Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) and the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP). View Dr. Preston's presentation.

"Inventing, Patenting, and Licensing" by Dr. Patrick MacCarthy of the Colorado School of Mines was presented on October 6, 2005 at the Nebraska Union on the UNL City Campus. Nebraska business people, college and university faculty, grad students, postdocs, and staff learned about securing intellectual property rights for inventions. Workshop registrants were able to meet individually with Dr. MacCarthy the following day. A professor of chemistry and geochemistry with over 25 years of experience in inventing, patenting, and licensing, Dr. MacCarthy holds numerous U.S. and foreign patents.  With extensive experience in product development, contract negotiation, and patent litigation, he has given intellectual property presentations for many businesses, universities, and government agencies. Click here for a workshop outline.

The first annual Nebraska Research Expo was held April 20, 2005 at the Qwest Center in Omaha.