10 Feb 2015    

Dissertation Award Earned by Mackenzie Saviano

Mackenzie Savaiano, Assistant Professor of Practice in SECD, won the 2015 CEC Division on Visual Impairments and Deafblindness Dissertation of the Year Award.  Mackenzie’s dissertation was titled, 'Comparison of Vocabulary Instruction Strategies for Students who Read Braille’.  She will be recognized at the CEC International Convention and Expo in San Diego, CA in April.  

Congratulations Mackenzie!



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10 Feb 2015    By Sherri Jones

Lee Receives Grant

Choonheong Lee, a PhD student in audiology, has received the Vestibular Grant for Student Investigators in the Research Grants in Hearing & Balance program from the American Academy of Audiology.  Choongheon will be investigating the effects of meclizine and diazepam on mammalian vestibular function.  Tim Jones is his faculty mentor.

Congratulations Choonheong!



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10 Feb 2015    By Sherri Jones

Student Investigator Grant awarded to Macy Schott

Macy Schott, a doctoral student working toward the AuD degree  in Audiology in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, was awarded a Student Investigator Grant in the Research Grants in Hearing & Balance program from the American Academy of Audiology.  Macy will be collaborating with UNL Extension to evaluate a hearing conservation program designed for 4-H youth.  Sherri Jones serves as Macy’s mentor.

Congratulations Macy!



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Rochelle Dalla photo

05 Feb 2015    By Deann Gayman | University Communications

Study shows resources shape outcomes of Native kids of teen moms

An adage says that children follow in their parents’ footsteps. So are children destined to repeat their parents’ mistakes?

That depends, according to a new study by UNL researcher Rochelle Dalla that delves into how a generation of Navajo teens have fared while growing up as children of teenaged mothers.



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Rochelle Dalla photo

05 Feb 2015    By Deann Gayman | University Communications

Study shows resources shape outcomes of Native kids of teen moms

An adage says that children follow in their parents’ footsteps. So are children destined to repeat their parents’ mistakes?

That depends, according to a new study by UNL researcher Rochelle Dalla that delves into how a generation of Navajo teens have fared while growing up as children of teenaged mothers.



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05 Feb 2015    

TLTE student wins math conference scholarship

Hayley Andersen, a CEHS senior from Pilger, Nebraska majoring in math education, has been selected to receive the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2015 Preservice Teacher Conference Scholarship. She will be attending the April NCTM conference in Boston. Less than a handful of students nationally are selected for this NCTM scholarship. Andersen submitted a paper that explores what it means for a teacher to make mathematics meaningful to their students and what the teacher's role is in doing so.



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05 Feb 2015    

TLTE student wins math conference scholarship

Hayley Andersen, a CEHS senior from Pilger, Nebraska majoring in math education, has been selected to receive the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2015 Preservice Teacher Conference Scholarship. She will be attending the April NCTM conference in Boston. Less than a handful of students nationally are selected for this NCTM scholarship. Andersen submitted a paper that explores what it means for a teacher to make mathematics meaningful to their students and what the teacher's role is in doing so.



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05 Feb 2015    By Brad Stauffer

Fellowship established to honor Kavanaugh-Miller

“Food and exercise is to enhance our lives, not add more stress.” These were words to live by for Karen Kavanaugh-Miller who devoted her professional life to helping people live healthier, happier lives. The past president of the Nebraska Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics spent 22 years practicing as a registered dietitian at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She died March 6, 2014, after a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer.



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05 Feb 2015    By Brad Stauffer

Fellowship established to honor Kavanaugh-Miller

“Food and exercise is to enhance our lives, not add more stress.” These were words to live by for Karen Kavanaugh-Miller who devoted her professional life to helping people live healthier, happier lives. The past president of the Nebraska Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics spent 22 years practicing as a registered dietitian at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She died March 6, 2014, after a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer.



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Lori Rausch photo

05 Feb 2015    

NHS's Rausch is February Staff Star Award recipient

The CEHS Staff Council has selected Lori Rausch, student services associate in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, as the February recipient of its Staff Star Award. The folowing remarks were made in her nomination:



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