Snigdha Guha
Guha to continue studying inflammation, metabolic diseases

Doctoral student Snigdha Guha made a home for herself in Lincoln after coming all the way from India while studying cardiovascular disease prevention. Guha studies pure and isolated gamma glutamyl peptides derived from food as potential preventative measures for vascular inflammation. Vascular inflammation commonly leads to cardiovascular disease, the number one cause of death worldwide.

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Emily Stratmoen will graduate in August 2022
Nebraska U helps Stratmoen pursue national security career

From watching "Criminal Minds" to participating in a counterterrorism master's program in Washington, D.C., the University of Nebraska–Lincoln helped Emily Stratmoen realize her dream of working with international crime. Stratmoen attributes her change in course to the professors in the university's national security studies minor program. And now, as the undergraduate prepares to graduate from Nebraska U on Aug. 13, she's planning to pursue her goal of being a counterthreat analyst by earning her master's degree in counterterrorism and homeland security policy at American University in Washington, D.C.

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Carson School students at Hampstead Heath in London
Carson School students study at Shakespeare’s Globe

After a hiatus due to the pandemic, 13 students from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film returned to study this summer at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, England. The students were in London from May 16 through June 4. Shakespeare's Globe is a world-renowned theatre, education center and cultural landmark located on the south bank of the River Thames. It is a reconstruction of the Globe Theatre, an Elizabethan-era playhouse for which William Shakespeare wrote his plays.

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Nebraska’s Shane Farritor operates the Virtual Incision surgical robot in a lab
Husker-developed surgical robot readies for space station test

A miniaturized robot invented by Nebraska's Shane Farritor is on schedule to blast off into space to showcase its skills. NASA recently awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $100,000 through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to ready the surgical robot for a 2024 test mission aboard the International Space Station.

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The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Soil Judging Team, including Kennadi Griffis (from left), Charlotte Brockman, Mason Schumacher and Mason Rutgers
Griffis competes for Team USA at international soil judging contest

University of Nebraska–Lincoln student Kennadi Griffis, a third-year environmental science major, with a concentration in soil science and a water science minor, will compete in the International Soil Judging Competition July 26-31 in Stirling, Scotland. Griffis, of Lincoln, Nebraska, will be a member of Team USA, along with students from Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University and the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and two coaches from Virginia Tech. She is the first student from Nebraska to earn a spot on the national team.

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A rider traverses the treeless grassland, or steppe, of Kazakhstan
Desert climate overtaking more of Central Asia

Rising annual temperatures and dwindling yearly precipitation across the mid-latitudes of Central Asia have extended its desert climate 60 miles northward since the 1980s, says a recent study led by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. An analysis of the region's climate has revealed that what was once a zone of semi-arid climate, featuring at least some summer precipitation, has since transitioned to a drier and hotter clime offering little rainfall during the growing season.

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Mandela Washington Fellows 2022
UNL welcomes Mandela Washington Fellowship to Lincoln

For the first time since 2019, 17 African countries sent 25 of their brightest young leaders to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s campus. Together, they are a part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, a six-week program dedicated to leadership and civic engagement. The Fellows were brought to UNL after an extensive selection process. UNL is one of 35 institutions from across the nation that has the Mandela Washington Program. It’s been held on the campus for five years, except for when COVID-19 cancelled it in 2020.

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Combines harvest soybeans in Chapadão do Sul, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Visit to Nebraska results in water management partnership with Brazil

As a result of a visit to Nebraska in May, the government of Mato Grosso, Brazil, will sign a collaboration agreement with the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute and the University of Nebraska to map its water resources. The agreement, signed through Brazil's Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation, aims to identify, monitor and define any present and planned future use of water.

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Plant growing in dry soil
Drought center kicks off $1 million defense project to predict unrest

Weather and climate can contribute to civil unrest, especially in countries with little to no social safety nets, where people depend on subsistence farming to feed themselves and their families. The question is, can civil unrest be predicted along with the weather? To begin answering that question, researchers at the National Drought Mitigation Center, based in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's School of Natural Resources, received $1 million in funding from U.S. Air Force Weather this spring for the first phase of a bigger project.

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Patrons use the African Poetry library in Uganda
Project earns funding to study book distribution in Africa

The African Poetry Book Fund at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln has earned a $343,750 grant from the Poetry Foundation to study poetry book distribution in Africa. The African Poetry Book Distribution Project, led by Kwame Dawes, George W. Holmes University Professor of English, will improve the understanding of poetry book distribution — examining bookseller networks, international trade, literary venues and programming and more — on a continent made up of multiple nations. The three-year project began this summer.

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