Accolades and Top Sponsored Programs, January 2018

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Sidnie White Crawford

  • Classics and religious studies
  • Received an honorary doctorate in theology from Uppsala University in Sweden. She received her diploma during a Jan. 26 conferment ceremony.


Brian Bockelman
, Byrav Ramamurthy, David Swanson, and Deepak Nadig Anantha

  • Computer science and engineering
  • Co-authored a paper that was named the First Best Paper in the Regular Papers category at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Conference for Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems. “Differentiated Network Services for Data-Intensive Science Using Application-Award SDN” was based on work supported by a National Science Foundation grant.


Larkin Powell

  • Biological sciences
  • Was selected to co-edit the ninth edition of the Wildlife Society’s techniques manual, the cornerstone text for wildlife biologists.

Top Sponsored Programs

Bureau of Sociological Research

  • L. Witt-Swanson, N. Gohring
  • $642,555
  • Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
  • 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey and Adult Tobacco Survey


Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • C. Detweiler, J. Bradley, B. Duncan, S. Elbaum
  • $469,293
  • National Strategic Research Institute
  • Detection of Nuclear Threats using Deployable Sensors