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University awards 20 grants supporting COVID-19 studies

Twenty University of Nebraska-Lincoln research teams have been selected for internal funding from the Office of Research and Economic Development’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program. The grants, which total nearly $635,000, support short-term activities that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The projects come from a wide range of disciplines.

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Mackenzie Zwiener, a graduate student in agronomy, bands sorghum plots and measures leaf angles in her research field on July 24. Nebraska is ranked among the top 50 universities in the world for agriculture and forestry instruction.
Nebraska among world’s best universities for ag, forestry

The 2020 Shanghai Ranking of Academic Subjects, released in June, ranked Nebraska 46th among universities worldwide and 18th among all institutions in the United States. The rankings consider the number of papers published in top journals and conferences, and significant awards won by faculty, among other factors.

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Nebraska in the national news: July 2020

The scientific expertise of two University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty members was featured in prominent national news outlets in July. The stories were among 35-plus featuring Husker faculty, staff, students, centers and programs during the month.

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Through film, class explores human resistance and resilience in pandemics

A summer class is examining an international slate of films that depict humanity’s resolve — both good and bad — in the face of deadly pathogens and the destruction they wrought.

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Two University of Nebraska–Lincoln students sit in on a local meeting during their “Food Security, Health and Nutrition” program in Zambia and Ethiopia in summer 2019. Led by Mary Willis, the study abroad program has included 15 Husker Gilman Scholars since its inception in 2014.
30 Huskers earn Gilman scholarship for education abroad

Thirty University of Nebraska–Lincoln undergraduates have earned the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to support credit-bearing study abroad, internship abroad or virtual international opportunities between spring 2021 and Dec. 31, 2021. The Gilman is a nationally competitive scholarship awarded twice a year by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. Between the October 2019 and March 2020 cycles, 47 Nebraska students were awarded, surpassing Nebraska’s previous record of 34 recipients in 2017-18.

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The 2019-20 Global Peer Assistant team is made up of 15 domestic and international students from around the world to help build connections on campus for new international students.
Nebraska stands up for its international students

International students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln continue to be supported despite challenges brought on by the coronavirus. More than 3,000 international students and scholars study and research at UNL, according to Nebraska Today, but when classes adapted to be remote in March due to the coronavirus, some students were unable to return to their home country. In response, UNL allowed international students to continue to live on campus and created an International Committee as a subcommittee of UNL’s COVID-19 Task Force to provide additional support.

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Hope Nakabuye and Abia Katimbo, masters and doctoral students from Uganda, have been doing their research at the West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte for the last few years.
Love of ag and country motivate Ugandan graduate students in their research

Their journey began with a love for their country and a love for learning about agriculture. It continues with an opportunity that brought Hope Nakabuye and Abia Katimbo to study at the University of Nebraska’s West Central Research and Extension Center in North Platte.

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The Ngaruiya family, including UNL alumnae and sisters Christine Ngaruiya, M.D., (left) and Katherine Ngaruiya, Ph.D., (right) together with their parents, Peter and Phyllis Ngaruiya, (center) established a fund to provide annual research awards to undergraduate students at UNL.
Ngaruiya family supports undergraduate student research at Nebraska

The new Ngaruiya Family Fund for Undergraduate Research at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is founded on five virtues: blended international experiences, cultural adaptation, courage, leaps of faith in pursuit of dreams and the importance of connections — specifically mentorship.

 

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Speaker series features former refugee Lanetta Edison-Soe

Edison-Soe, a member of the Karen ethnic group from Burma, will share her story in the talk, “Never Forget.” She lived for six years in Burma’s Karen state as an internal displaced person and spent 16 years in a refugee camp in Thailand.

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Webinar exploring recent immigration updates is July 23

University of Nebraska–Lincoln students, faculty and staff are invited to a webinar on fall 2020 immigration guidance from 1 to 2:30 p.m. July 23.

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