Most of the year I don t give a second thought to horses. When I see a huge hat and smell mint juleps though, it all comes back to me. It s Kentucky Derby time!
I enjoy watching these horse races. While I don t keep up with the races during the rest of the year, I like to turn on the television and watch the race. I also love tuning in to see those absolutely wild hats.
Mike Coppola
This year, I ll be paying some extra attention to the festivities though. After some deep diving, I found out that Iowa has a really interesting connection to the elite race.
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Aviation Institute Associate Professor Becky Lutte, Ph.D., answers the question: “How big of an impact did the COVID-19 pandemic have on the airline industry, and how will air travel change because of it?”
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A leading aviation expert with research interests in the areas of aviation safety policy, pilot supply, and outreach, recruitment, and retention of women in aviation, Lutte was among 30 industry professionals and experts named last year by then-U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine L. Chao to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Women in Aviation Advisory Board (WIAAB). Lutte was chosen from a pool of nearly 200 applicants to join the board alongside aviation professionals and executives from major airlines and aerospace companies, nonprofit organizations within the aviation industry, aviation and engineering business associations, the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary, Civil Air Patrol, aviation trade schools, and other i
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Passed in 2018, the First Step Act sought to address re-entry challenges for inmates in the federal prison system. The legislation called for developing an assessment tool to identify inmates for release who had the lowest likelihood of recidivism. A new study assessed how the tool was developed and is used, finding that a greater proportion of inmates could reduce their risk and become eligible for early release over time if they participated in a re-entry program and did not incur infractions. This finding has implications for efforts to reduce prison populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The study, by researchers at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Baylor University, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and Washington State University, appears in
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LINCOLN, Neb. Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students have been awarded a Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for their invention designed to keep grain farmers safe.
Seniors Ben Johnson, an electrical engineering major from Aurora, and Zane Zents, a computer engineering major from Omaha, pitched the plan for their product, Grain Weevil, for the national award. They were chosen alongside three other undergraduate teams and four graduate winners. They will receive a $10,000 prize.
The Grain Weevil is a small robot designed to maintain grain, eliminating the need for farmers to enter bins, which can be dangerous and even fatal.
The idea for the Grain Weevil came from a conversation between Johnson’s father, Chad, and an Aurora farmer. Ben Johnson was an underclassman at the time and had just completed his first major robotics project. Chad Johnson was talking about it with one of his friends from church.
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