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Georgia Jones, associate professor of nutrition and health sciences.

30 Jun 2015    By Alyssa Amen | CYFS

Engaging students with mobile technology

Georgia Jones, associate professor of nutrition and health sciences, is using mobile technology to connect students with course content—and she’s doing it all from a UNL food laboratory.



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Georgia Jones, associate professor of nutrition and health sciences.

30 Jun 2015    By Alyssa Amen | CYFS

Engaging students with mobile technology

Georgia Jones, associate professor of nutrition and health sciences, is using mobile technology to connect students with course content—and she’s doing it all from a UNL food laboratory.



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Ken Kiera and student Amanda Witte

18 Jun 2015    By Leslie Reed | University Communications

Study shows devoted parents are key to developing world-class talent

It takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice for a person can become a world-class talent in a given field, or so said writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 2008 book.

It also helps to have intensely dedicated parents, according to a new study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln educational psychologist Kenneth Kiewra and three former graduate students.



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Ken Kiera and student Amanda Witte

18 Jun 2015    By Leslie Reed | University Communications

Study shows devoted parents are key to developing world-class talent

It takes 10,000 hours of dedicated practice for a person can become a world-class talent in a given field, or so said writer Malcolm Gladwell in a 2008 book.

It also helps to have intensely dedicated parents, according to a new study by University of Nebraska-Lincoln educational psychologist Kenneth Kiewra and three former graduate students.



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Photo of Deryl Hatch

16 Jun 2015    By McKenzie Swanson

Hatch joins new UT faculty affiliate program

Deryl Hatch, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration (EDAD) in the College of Education and Human Sciences, has been invited to join a new faculty affiliate program at the University of Texas at Austin that is designed to connect P–16 practitioners and administrators with relevant research on Latino males’ educational experiences. Latino males have the lowest high school graduation, college enrollment and college completion rates of any subgroup.



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Photo of Deryl Hatch

16 Jun 2015    By McKenzie Swanson

Hatch joins new UT faculty affiliate program

Deryl Hatch, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration (EDAD) in the College of Education and Human Sciences, has been invited to join a new faculty affiliate program at the University of Texas at Austin that is designed to connect P–16 practitioners and administrators with relevant research on Latino males’ educational experiences. Latino males have the lowest high school graduation, college enrollment and college completion rates of any subgroup.



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15 Jun 2015    

Students explore college, textiles through Upward Bound

Thirteen high school students, following directions from visiting lecturer Camille Hawbaker, laid out pieces of hand-dyed fabric in a Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design (TMFD) classroom last week. The students had dyed the fabric themselves, then cut square pieces and pinned and sewed them together to create small art quilts. It’s all part of an Upward Bound summer residential program that brings students to campus for six-week summer sessions to engage them in learning and get them thinking about college.



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Photo of Ted Hamann

11 Jun 2015    By Brad Stauffer

Hamann earns anthropology in public policy award

Research has many different purposes, but one of its highest callings is to influence public policy. For the impact his anthropological research has had on public education policy in Mexico, UNL Professor Ted Hamann has been honored with the 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy (AIPP) Award from the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Hamann was notified of the honor June 4 and will be formally recognized at the AAA annual meeting in November in Denver.



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Photo of Ted Hamann

11 Jun 2015    By Brad Stauffer

Hamann earns anthropology in public policy award

Research has many different purposes, but one of its highest callings is to influence public policy. For the impact his anthropological research has had on public education policy in Mexico, UNL Professor Ted Hamann has been honored with the 2015 Anthropology in Public Policy (AIPP) Award from the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Hamann was notified of the honor June 4 and will be formally recognized at the AAA annual meeting in November in Denver.



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Dr. Aktar Ali

08 Jun 2015    

Dr. Aktar Ali, BORC Director, Joins NPOD

Dr. Aktar Ali, joined NPOD June 1, 2015, as the new director of the Biomedical and Obesity Research Core - the BORC facilities. He has eight years of experience leading the Metabolic Phenotyping Core Facility at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. His objective is to create a cutting-edge facility that serves the needs of all university faculty, as well as researchers in industry outside the university, engaged in biomedical research.



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