Nickel and died: Earth’s largest extinction likely took plants first
Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research by an international team led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Team members Christopher Fielding and Tracy Frank explain the surprising evidence found.
CASNR program helps Rwandan students become world agricultural leaders
Before he started college, Rodrigue Mugenga knew he wanted to make a difference and give back to his home country of Rwanda in any way possible. Mugenga, a senior integrated science major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discovered and applied for the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources’ Undergraduate Scholarship Program, or CUSP, when it was created in 2015.
Africa connections show NU's multi-faceted global outreach
As featured in the Omaha World Hearld: "The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is now home to nearly 160 students from the African country of Rwanda—the third-largest subgroup of UNL’s international students... Such international outreach, a part of the university’s overall strategic vision, shows the positive effect NU is having here and abroad."
Moeller completes year as world language ambassador and ACTFL president
Dr. Ali Moeller, professor in the Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education department, is an ambassador of world languages in every manner. As president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Moeller, spent 2018 traveling the U.S. and beyond to share the important benefits of learning and teaching a second language.
UNL's first student learns from cultural differences in Cameroon study abroad program
Chelsea Akyeampong, a junior global studies and political science double major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, found cultural challenges and lessons in her study abroad trip to Cameroon. The first Nebraskan student to complete the program, she emerged with a new look on culture and open to challenges.
Korean Peninsula history is focus of lecture series
The Osher Lifelong Learning Center’s annual Winter Lecture Series will examine “The Korean Peninsula: Past, Present and Future.”
Zhang wins 2019 National Young Artists Competition
Michelle Yin Zhang, a doctoral piano student in the Glenn Korff School of Music, has won the 2019 National Young Artists Competition in the college piano division. Originally from Shenzhen, China, Zhang has won several piano competitions in her home country and is in her last year at UNL.
Harwood’s Antarctica discovery surfaces in Nature
David Harwood’s cursory discovery of microscopic animal remains in samples taken from a lake deep beneath the Antarctica Ice Sheet is featured online in an exclusive report by Nature, the international journal of science. The creatures—believed to be crustaceans and a tardigrade, or “water bear”—were discovered as part of the National Science Foundation-funded Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access, or SALSA, project.
'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel
Chigozie Obioma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor, got the idea for his second novel from something he witnessed as a student himself in northern Cyprus. An Orchestra of Minorities–Obioma’s second novel after his Man Booker-shortlisted debut The Fishermen–is an Odyssey-like story in which a poultry farmer from Nigeria undertakes a journey to prove himself worthy of the woman he loves.
ISSO welcomes new and returning international students and scholars
The International Student and Scholar Office (ISSO) extends a warm welcome back to new and returning international students and scholars for spring 2019. After assisting with orientation and hosting a graduate student welcome party, the office is excited for its upcoming activities.