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Can Small Shops Create a Large COVID-19 Supply Chain?

During the COVID-19 crisis, a new manufacturing production base is emerging: the small workshop. Formerly constrained by the lack of expensive production equipment, many design and prototype shops, schools and universities and even individuals are using the flexibility of 3D printing to make small batch runs of personal protective equipment (PPE) for front line healthcare workers. One example is the Nebraska Innovation Studio, that is closed to the public, but its leaders and members are working around the clock to produce face shields for hospitals across the state.

Hand Sanitizer Request Information

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is currently producing hand sanitizer at Nebraska Innovation Campus for healthcare facilities and essential businesses across the state. Local Lincoln pick-up is available via online request. More information available at http://handsanitizer.unl.edu. To contribute to the cause: go.unl.edu/donate4sanitizer

Hand sanitizer for health care produced at Nebraska Innovation Campus

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is partnering with the Nebraska ethanol industry to produce hand sanitizer for use by hospitals, nursing homes, doctors’ offices and other health care providers in Nebraska and nearby areas.

After a successful initial run April 5 at the Food Processing Center on Nebraska Innovation Campus, the partners completed their first full day of production April 6.

Nebraska U makers step up to equip healers

Nebraska Innovation Studio is closed to the public, but its leaders and members are working around the clock to produce face shields for hospitals across the state.

Personal protective equipment shortages have been well documented throughout the United States as COVID-19 has spread rapidly. That trend is also hitting Nebraska, where hospitals are starting to run short.

Bryan Health Employs Plastic Face Shields, Still Waiting on Drive-Thru Results

NIC COVID-19 Response

As concerns around the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) increase, the health and safety of our NIC Partners is our top priority.

The Combine welcomes International Ag-Analytics Company CropX with new ties to Nebraska

CropX, a leading soil sensing and agricultural analytics company, has moved into the Combine Incubator at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln, NE. The company views its location in the Midwest as a strong opportunity to further enhance its farm management platform, after its recent acquisition of CropMetrics, a Nebraska based company with a long history of connection to the University of Nebraska.

Big Red Business: What’s next for new track stadium and Innovation Campus?

Celerion expands clinical research to Nebraska Innovation Campus

Curious Cornhuskers: Why the Innovation Campus greenhouse lights are pink at night

As part of our initiative called Curious Cornhuskers, an anonymous reader asked The Daily Nebraskan, “Why are the Innovation Campus’s greenhouse lights pink at night?”

The lights give off a pink or purple color because they are a mixture of the red and blue colors that plants like to absorb, according to Amy Hilske, plant growth facilities director for the Greenhouse Innovation Center on Nebraska Innovation Campus. She said the greenhouse’s lights are programmed to be 20% blue and 80% red because of research that shows plants absorb red more.