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26 Feb 2024    

Meet a Husker: Hope Belcastro

Meet Hope Belcastro, a sophomore from Omaha, Nebraska, majoring in secondary English education.

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21 Feb 2024    By Kelcey Buck

New grant project to provide training, ongoing support for teachers of diverse backgrounds

Diversifying and increasing the number of individuals becoming and remaining teachers in Nebraska and Kansas is the focus of a new three-year project that leverages the strengths of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s College of Education and Human Sciences and Kansas State University’s Center for Intercultural and Multilingual Advocacy.

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20 Feb 2024    By Research and Economic Development

Project aims to improve STEM teaching

Preparing kids for a fast-paced, technology-focused future starts in elementary school. Yet many teachers are ill-prepared to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The University of Nebraska–Lincoln is one of four collaborating universities leading a national, multi-institutional effort to improve novice elementary educators’ ability and confidence to teach these fields, known as STEM.

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19 Feb 2024    By Tiffany Lee, Research and Economic Development

Husker team wins prize in contest to treat disease through gene editing

Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition, and Jiantao Guo, professor of chemistry, were selected as Phase 1 winners in the NIH’s Targeted Genome Editor Delivery Challenge. The challenge is a three-phase competition with prizes totaling $6 million; the University of Nebraska–Lincoln team was among 30 initial recipients announced in December 2023.

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