This Week at UNL

Curt Bright Author

06/18/2024 Added

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This episode features stories about noisy restaurants, a moon tree, a mural painting project and wheat fungus.

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[00:00:06.960]Noisy restaurants aren't just annoying,
[00:00:09.300]they may be bad for your health.
[00:00:11.021]Husker Engineering professor, Lily Wang,
[00:00:13.380]is an acoustics expert.
[00:00:15.060]Wang studies the noise levels in schools, restaurants
[00:00:18.150]and other public spaces.
[00:00:19.980]Wang's research shows that prolonged exposure
[00:00:22.290]to excessive noise, can have physical effects.
[00:00:24.600]Such as increased anxiety and fatigue.
[00:00:27.090]And restaurant staff risk permanent hearing damage.
[00:00:30.000]Wang runs the acoustics program in the Durham School
[00:00:32.850]and she's the former president
[00:00:34.170]of the Acoustical Society of America.
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[00:00:37.950]A new tree on the UNL campus,
[00:00:39.750]is literally from out of this world.
[00:00:41.700]The sweetgum Moon Tree, planted on East Campus,
[00:00:44.340]was grown from a seed that flew three times around the moon.
[00:00:47.730]Three, two, one, boosters in ignition.
[00:00:52.110]And lift off of Artemis 1.
[00:00:54.240]We rise together, back to the moon and beyond.
[00:00:58.980]The seed flew in space
[00:01:00.150]for 25 days aboard NASA's Artemis 1, in 2022.
[00:01:04.230]The average sweetgum seed, rides the wind for about 200 feet
[00:01:07.410]before it germinates.
[00:01:08.243]UNLs sweetgum, nicknamed, Luna,
[00:01:10.950]traveled about 1.3 million miles
[00:01:13.170]before finally landing in Lincoln.
[00:01:15.210]The planting is an expansion of the Moon Tree project,
[00:01:17.910]that sprouted from the Apollo 14 mission, in 1971.
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[00:01:22.980]Husker researchers helped panhandle farmers
[00:01:25.170]fight a rare disease.
[00:01:26.850]Several western Nebraska wheat growers
[00:01:28.860]called the University last spring,
[00:01:30.360]when they noticed their winter wheat
[00:01:31.860]looking bleached and sickly.
[00:01:33.720]The culprit was a Fusarium head blight, also known as scab.
[00:01:37.920]A notoriously destructive plant disease,
[00:01:39.870]rarely seen in western Nebraska.
[00:01:41.970]The panhandle had more rainfall than normal in 2023,
[00:01:45.600]which enabled the fungal outbreak.
[00:01:48.090]After extensive field testing,
[00:01:49.920]UNL agronomists and plant pathologists,
[00:01:52.020]came up with a new wheat variety
[00:01:53.730]that's resistant to scab and other fungal diseases.
[00:01:56.730]The panhandle region produces more than half
[00:01:59.100]of the state's wheat.
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[00:02:01.530]Husker students brighten up a southeast Nebraska city.
[00:02:04.950]Art students from UNL and Nebraska's extension,
[00:02:07.500]team up with community members
[00:02:09.060]to create a new mural in downtown Beatrice.
[00:02:11.910]The painting was designed by Husker student,
[00:02:13.890]Maddie Vanderbur, for a summer street art class.
[00:02:17.010]It's Vanderbur's first time working on such a
[00:02:18.990]large scale project.
[00:02:20.640]You kind of just have so much open space
[00:02:22.920]and a lot more room for fine detail, than you'd think.
[00:02:26.970]But, looking at it from the street,
[00:02:29.490]completely changes how you see it.
[00:02:32.250]The idea to create the mural,
[00:02:33.720]came from the staff at a downtown car dealership.
[00:02:36.660]They saw an opportunity for a community art project
[00:02:39.180]and they reached out to the university.
[00:02:41.100]I've gotten all kinds of text messages from friends
[00:02:43.350]and other business owners in Beatrice,
[00:02:45.060]telling us how great this looks and how excited they are.
[00:02:47.760]And I think it just brings another level
[00:02:49.680]of interest to downtown.
[00:02:51.420]It beautifies our community
[00:02:52.770]and we're really excited to be a part of it.
[00:02:54.510]Young people from Beatrice helped with
[00:02:56.340]the actual painting, during a community paint day.
[00:02:59.670]And that's what's happening this week, at UNL.
[00:03:01.860]I'm Olivia Reed.
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