Nebraska team wins grant to advance irrigation access for smallholder farmers in six African nations
An interdisciplinary University of Nebraska (NU) team led by the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI), has received a three-year, one million dollar grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to advance access and education around smallholder farmer irrigation in Africa. IFAD, an international financial institution and specialized agency of the United Nations, invests in the prosperity and resilience of rural communities throughout the world. Small-scale agriculture, a proven method of poverty reduction, is central to their development model.
Buffett Institute awards fellowships to two Nebraska doctoral students
The Buffett Early Childhood Institute has awarded one-year grants to two Nebraska doctoral students through a pioneering fellowship program. The two students are Keting Chen and Erin Hamel, both human sciences students in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies. Keting, of Shanghai, China is exploring how the home numeracy environments and child care numeracy environments are associated with preschool-age children’s numeracy skills. Hamel, of Athens, Georgia, will investigate the workplace support of planning/non-contact time, a widely overlooked facet of early childhood teachers’ workday.
Daugherty Water for Food launches podcast
Since 2010, the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska has worked toward one goal: a food and water-secure world — one in which global food security is ensured without compromising the use of water to meet other essential human and environmental needss
To amplify the voices of those making waves in this space, the institute has created the Daugherty Water for Food Podcast, available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts.
Nebraska researchers studying COVID-19 impacts on older minority adults
University of Nebraska–Lincoln researchers are closely examining the social, health and mortality effects of COVID-19 among older marginalized populations.
It is well-documented that COVID-19’s most deleterious impacts have been felt by older adults, but what does that mean for minority populations? Their social networks? Their overall mortality? Marc A. Garcia and colleagues in the Department of Sociology and the Institute of Ethnic Studies are exploring these questions and have published new research to share their findings.
New mineral, ‘priscillagrewite,’ named in honor of renowned Husker geologist
The greatest Christmas present Priscilla Grew, professor emeritus of Earth and atmospheric sciences and director emeritus of the University of Nebraska State Museum, received last year was an email when she and her husband Ed vacationing in Hawaii. It came from another married couple, Irina Galuskina and Evgeny Galuskin, whom Priscilla and Ed first met in 2010 at a meeting in Budapest. And it contained a surprise: “We found a new garnet and would like to name it ‘prisgrewite.’ We hope that Priscilla will agree!”
Talk to explore humanitarian crisis on U.S., Mexico border
Everard Meade, faculty director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, will deliver a talk, “Fates and Furies: What the Humanitarian Crisis on the U.S.-Mexico Border Teaches Us about History and Humanity, Race and Place,” at 6 p.m. Sept. 23 via Zoom.
Scholar panel to launch ‘Hostile Terrain’ exhibition
Join scholars from across the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for a conversation about research, teaching and public engagement related to the themes of the “Hostile Terrain 94” exhibition at 5 p.m. Sept. 21 via Zoom. The exhibition opens the same day in the Nebraska Union.
Nebraska climbs in U.S. News rankings, peer assessment increases
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln continued to build positive momentum in the annual U.S. News and World Report rankings, building on strengths in national reputation, value, veteran supports and academics. The 2021 rankings place Nebraska in the top third nationally in comparisons of all public universities. Among public universities, Nebraska is No. 62, an advancement of two positions from a year ago. Nebraska is also the only Big Ten institution to show improvement in the peer assessment score in back-to-back years.
Kunc, Amano to discuss ‘Tales of Genji I’
University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty Karen Kunc and Ikuho Amano will offer insight on artist Helen Frankenthaler’s 34-color woodblock print “Tales of Genji I” — and the literary work that inspired it — in a live Zoom event at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 17.
Nebraska team wins grant to advance irrigation in six African nations
An interdisciplinary University of Nebraska team led by the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the International Fund for Agricultural Development to advance access and education around smallholder farmer irrigation in Africa. The grant, partially matched and co-funded by the Daugherty Institute, will focus on work in six countries: Rwanda, Ethiopia, Burundi, Senegal, Niger and the Gambia. Collaborating closely with local partners, the team will explore whether identified business models for providing irrigation to smallholder farmers are inclusive and sustainable within their existing markets.