News

14 Feb 2013    

Jing Xue selected as finalist for Nutritional Sciences Council Awards Competition

Jing Xue, a graduate student working with Janos Zempleni’s lab, has been named one of 12 finalists for the American Society for Nutrition’s Nutritional Sciences Council 2013 Graduate Student Research Awards Competition. Her abstract is entitled “Epigenetic Synergies between Methyl Donors and Biotin in Gene Repression are Mediated by Holocarboxylase Synthetase (HLCS).”

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14 Feb 2013    

Bischoff named chair of CYAF

Richard Bischoff has been a faculty member at UNL since 1998. He moved to Nebraska from San Diego, California where he taught at the University of San Diego and worked as a Marriage and Family Therapist in a primary care medical clinic. It was there that he developed an interest and expertise in collaborative healthcare and Medical Family Therapy. At Nebraska, Bischoff has been able to apply collaborative care principles to work in rural medical settings and to do this through the innovative use of videoconferencing as a primary treatment delivery medium.

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11 Feb 2013    

CYFS features Pianta presentation Feb. 26

The University of Virginia’s Robert Pianta, a nationally recognized scholar in early childhood and K-12 education, will address research on the improvement of teacher-child interactions in the classroom during a Feb. 26 visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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04 Feb 2013    

Staff Council sponsors brown bag lunch on India, Feb. 19

Staff Council invites staff, faculty, and students to a presentation on India by Dipra Jha, Assistant Professor of Practice in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences.

The presentation will be Feb. 19, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Ruth Leverton Hall, room 304.

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