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Nebraska run-rules Creighton

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March 16, 2024

LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Athletics) – The Nebraska softball team scored in every inning of a 9-0 five-inning victory over Creighton Saturday at Bowlin Stadium.

The Huskers (15-12) scored two runs in each of the first three innings before plating three runs in the fourth. Nebraska pounded out 10 hits in the win, including four extra-base hits and two home runs. NU was 7-for-14 with runners on base in the game and 5-for-9 with runners in scoring position.

Billie Andrews went 2-for-3 with a double, a home run, two runs scored and three RBIs. Her home run was the 53rd of her career, moving her into a tie for second place on Nebraska’s all-time home run list. Sydney Gray also went 2-for-3 with a homer, and she drove in two runs. Katelyn Caneda was 2-for-2 with two runs scored. Ava Bredwell, Samantha Bland, Malia Thoms and Bella Bacon all had one RBI.

Not to be overshadowed by the offense, freshman pitcher Caitlin Olensky tossed the first complete game and first shutout of her career. Olensky (3-2) scattered three hits and struck out four.

Natalia Puchino (11-2) lost for just the second time this season, allowing a season-high-tying four runs in 2.0 innings. Creighton fell to 16-10 with the loss.

In the top of the first inning, a hit batter and a walk put Bluejays on first and second with one out. But Olensky escaped the jam with a pair of strikeouts.

In the bottom of the first, Brooke Andrews drew a one-out walk, stole second and scored on an RBI triple from Bredwell to give Nebraska a 1-0 lead. Bland then brought Bredwell home with an RBI single up the middle to make it 2-0.

Nebraska added two more runs in the bottom of the second. The first two Huskers were retired before Caneda singled with two outs. Billie Andrews then hit a two-run home run to right to push the Big Red lead to 4-0.

The Huskers scored two runs again in the top of the third. Gray led off with a towering solo home run into the wind in left. A pair of Creighton errors put then put Bland on second base with two outs for Bacon, who delivered an RBI single to score Bland and give Nebraska a 6-0 lead.

In the bottom of the fourth, Caneda singled and scored on an RBI double from Billie Andrews. Following a walk to Brooke Andrews, Gray had an RBI single to put the Huskers on top 8-0. A one-out single from Bland loaded the bases before Thoms drew a bases-loaded walk to stretch the lead to 9-0.

Creighton loaded the bases with two outs in the top of the fifth before Olensky completed her shutout with a ground out.

Nebraska wraps up the weekend with a Sunday game against Northern Colorado. The game will start at 1 p.m. in a change to the original schedule.

Post-Game Notes

Nebraska posted its second run-rule victory of this weekend and fourth of the season.
Caitlin Olensky posted her first career shutout and first career complete game.
Billie Andrews homered in the second inning. The home run was the 53rd of her career, moving her into a tie for second place on Nebraska’s all-time home run with Ali Viola (1995-98).
The home run was Andrews’ 10th of the season in 23 games. This marks the third straight season Andrews has hit at least 10 home runs.
Sydney Gray also homered, her seventh of the season.
Bella Bacon had an RBI single in the third inning, her sixth consecutive game with an RBI.

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Tags: Ava Bredwell, B1G softball, Bella Bacon, Billie Andrews, Caitlin Olensky, Creighton, Husker Softball, Huskers, Katelyn Caneda, Malia Thoms, Nebraska, Nebraska softball, Samantha Bland, Sydney Gray

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Nebraska professor Mathias Schubert honored as National Academy of Inventors Fellow

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January 28, 2026

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Nebraska professor Mathias Schubert honored as National Academy of Inventors Fellow

LINCOLN, Neb — Mathias Schubert, a leading figure in optical ellipsometry, has been named a 2025 National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest accolade from the organization. Schubert, a J.A. Woollam Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, joins 13 other faculty members from the university who have received this honor. The recognition is awarded to researchers whose work has been transformed into inventions and technologies with societal impact.

Schubert has dedicated 20 years at Nebraska to tackling significant challenges, from ellipsometry to international collaborations. His university faculty webpage lists nine patents and 11 papers, but Schubert believes there may be hundreds more. “To tell you the truth, I have no idea how many patents or papers there are with my name on them. I’m not focusing on that,” Schubert said. “Other people say I should write a patent or a paper for so many things. I tell them I’d rather try this or I want to try that because new things keep popping up on my radar and pursuing those things is what makes my work so exciting.”

His research focuses on using ellipsometry to explore ways to enhance the electrical capabilities of materials, leading to advancements in semiconductors, optics, and displays. Schubert’s work has resulted in multiple inventions, including the optical Hall effect in semiconductors and ellipsometric instrumentation development.

Currently, Schubert is part of an international team working to identify new semiconductor materials for high-power applications. The team is particularly interested in gallium oxide, a material with wide-bandgap semiconductor properties suitable for high-voltage switches and power devices. Due to the scarcity of high-quality gallium oxide crystals in nature, the team employs a process akin to farm-to-table methods to create semiconductor wafers.

James Speck at the University of California, Santa Barbara, initiates the process by “growing” crystals from raw materials. These are then transformed into ultrathin film wafers by Debdeep Jena from Cornell University and Zbigniew Galazka from the Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth in Germany. Schubert’s team in Nebraska evaluates the wafers’ quality and performance before they are made available to consumers.

Schubert expressed excitement about the ongoing project and the potential discoveries ahead. “I actually, honestly, have the opinion that if what I do is of interest, the problems will find me,” Schubert said. “There’s this concept of doing things at different frequencies, different mathematical approaches, that’s what you see all over the place. So many brilliant minds out there, and everyone’s going to have ideas. That’s exciting, to work with those people together, just listening to them and learning.”

The 2025 class of fellows includes 169 researchers from across the U.S., collectively holding over 5,300 U.S. patents and including Nobel Prize recipients.

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