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Summer Writer's Workshop

Since 2003, UNL's creative writing program has hosted the conference, a seven-day event consisting of intensive writing workshops and master classes, panel discussions, readings and receptions. A number of published authors are featured, several of them Nebraska natives. Read more at the site nebraskawriters.unl.edu

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The Nebraska Center for Virology conducts innovative research into Alzheimer’s disease, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other illnesses.

Physicist Donald Umstadter and in his team of researchers have built a world class laser lab at UNL. In August 2006, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln unveiled a new world-class laser that is helping position Nebraska as a leader in high-field physics and laser research. The Diocles laser has the potential for reaching the highest light intensity ever produced by any laser in the world. The compact, ultra-fast, high-intensity laser can produce more power than 100,000 Hoover Dams in bursts lasting only 30 billionths of one millionth of a second.Diocles produces gamma rays that can "see through" four-inch-thick steel to detect bomb material hidden in a cargo container, or hairline cracks in a jet turbine. The laser is small and inexpensive enough for hospitals to potentially use it as a proton source for cutting-edge cancer therapy.

The Research Computer Facility manages the PrairieFire Supercomputer, which is used to solve problems requiring computing resources available only at a select group of universities. University of Nebraska-Lincoln scientists and facilities are playing a key role in one of the world’s largest physics experiments, and have received a $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support those efforts.

The Nebraska Center for Virology, a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, was formed in the fall of 2000 under the Institutional Development Award program. The Center combines the expertise and facilities of Nebraska's leading biomedical research institutions: the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Creighton University. Junior and established researchers at these institutions conduct innovative and collaborative research on a number of life-threatening diseases.

The J. D. Edwards Honors Program in Computer Science and Management produces top quality graduates who combine business knowledge and computing fundamentals for enterprise information and software systems. Its $24.7 million academic, residential center houses a design studio that has created software solutions for both global and local organizations.

The Cedar Point Biological Station gives students unique access to a wide variety of water and land environments, such as forests, meadows, and prairies, and four major grassland types. Students can pursue such fields as ornithology, prairie ecology, natural resources policy, limnology, and natural history of invertebrates.

The Department of Sociology is ranked among the nation's leading programs in the study of marriage and the family.

Students and faculty in the Department of Mathematics frequently gain national recognition. The department has been in the forefront of attracting and educating women in mathematics.

The Center on Children, Families and the Law regularly draws large government grants to conduct its important work. The center promotes the well being of children and families through research, analyzing policy, and providing education and community service

Prairie Schooner, a literary magazine housed in UNL’s English department, has been publishing the works of emerging authors for 80 years.