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Preeclampsia can cause serious complications—and even death—if left untreated. The condition develops during pregnancy, often causing high blood pressure and affecting organs like the kidneys and liver. It’s especially dangerous because many women do not experience any [...]

As a physics professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Jeremy Armstrong is no stranger to asking big questions. Thanks to a $20 million National Science Foundation-funded project, he’s tackling some of the [...]

Call it a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Say a child scores low on a test, but they also struggle with the skills needed to take that test. Which comes first? The child’s lack of knowledge, or [...]

By Juliane Strauss-Soukup, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Scholarship at Creighton University. Creighton University is a critical partner in growing the State of Nebraska. 80% percent of Creighton’s undergraduates come from outside Nebraska, [...]

By Tammy Kielian, PhD - UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology As a native Nebraskan from Stanton, I graduated from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln before leaving the state to earn my Ph.D. at [...]

Travis Bourret, PhD, Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at Creighton University, has received a four-year, $1.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study how the bacteria that causes Lyme disease senses [...]

Initial investment from tobacco settlement funding: $1.26 million Research portfolio: $30 million Return on investment: 24 to 1   Janos Zempleni has spent more than two decades studying how nutrition changes the [...]

Initial investment from tobacco settlement funding: $250,000 Current portfolio: $3 million (two multi-year NIH awards) Return on investment: 11 to 1 Every parent looks forward to their baby’s first word. Before long, [...]