CEHS welcomes visiting scholars and encourages mutual learning and collaboration. Our international guests come to study how CEHS approaches teaching, learning and research. We also learn from our guests as they bring their unique experiences to CEHS.
Dr. Akiko Ito
Saturday, August 1, 2020 to Thursday, April 1, 2021Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education
Dr. Akiko Takagi is a visiting scholar from the College of Education, Psychology and Human Studies at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Her research interests include foreign language teacher education, professional teacher development, practitioner research, and qualitative research methodology. She will be working with Dr. Ali Moeller , Edith S. Greer Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education to investigate mentoring in pre-service teacher education, practitioner research in in-service teacher education, and professional development of teacher educators at the university level. Dr. Takagi will be in residence at UNL from August 2020 through April 2021.
Hosted by: Dr. Ali Moeller
Alazar Kirubel Kora
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Friday, January 31, 2020Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences
Alazar Kirubel Kora, MS, is a lecturer and research scholar in the School of Nutrition, Food Science and Technology/Academic Center of Excellence for Human Nutrition at HU. Mr. Kirubel Kora is now the co-leader of the UNL Food Security, Health, and Nutrition education abroad program to Africa. Mr. Kirubel is in the US to work on an ARI grant for work on coffee cherry waste streams and the Africa education abroad program.
Hosted by: Dr. Mary Willis
Fikadu Reta Alemayehu
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Friday, January 31, 2020Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences
Fikadu Reta Alemayehu, MS is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nutrition, Food Science and Technology/Academic Center of Excellence for Human Nutrition at HU. He has travelled to European and African countries to participate in nutrition education programs, trainings, and academic conferences and has authored a number of papers on nutrition-related issues in Ethiopia. He is currently overseeing FAO-funded work regarding school feeding programs. Mr. Alemayehu (with Mr. Kirubel) is in the US to work on an ARI grant for work on coffee cherry waste streams.
Hosted by: Dr. Mary Willis
Dr. Marvin Gonzalez
Wednesday, January 1, 2020 to Friday, February 14, 2020Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
Dr. Marvin Gonzalez is a visiting scholar from the Research Centre on Health, Work and Environment at the National Autonomous University in Nicaragua, León hosted by the Audiology Program within the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders. In Nicaragua, he taught a variety of courses at the Faculty of Medicine and conducts epidemiological research in occupational health and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology. He will be working with Associate Professor of Practice Stacie Ray and Assistant Professor of Practice Hannah Ditmars on developing an audiology training program to increase the capacity-building for hearing detection and treatment in Nicaragua. CEHS faculty and students in the department of Special Education and Communication Disorders hope to learn from the perspectives of Dr. Gonzalez during his visit. CEHS encourages this reciprocal exchange of ideas and practices as we work with Dr. Gonzalez and the National Autonomous University in Nicaragua, León to develop new approaches to audiology here, and a new audiology program in Nicaragua.
Hosted by: Dr. Stacie Ray and Dr. Hannah Ditmars