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18 Jul 2022    By Kelcey Buck

Promotion and tenure milestone provides extra motivation for Wang in next phase of career

Yingying Wang describes herself as a spring wound tightly during the early years of her career at Nebraska while she focused on working toward being promoted to associate professor and granted tenure. Now that she’s achieved that, she feels a different energy.

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15 Jul 2022    By Leslie Reed - University Communication

Husker program empowers Rapid City youth to stop sexual violence

The Youth Voices in Prevention — Youth VIP — program, developed under the leadership of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln educational psychologist affiliated with the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools, serves both Native and non-Indigenous middle and high school students in the Rapid City School District. American Indian persons, particularly the Lakota people, comprise about 20% of Rapid City’s population.

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14 Jul 2022    

RISE Project aims to improve integrated STEM instruction in elementary classrooms

A newly funded Noyce Track 4 research project, Research on Integrated STEM Self-efficacy (RISE) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, along with three other institutions, will explore links between teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching STEM, teacher preparation and development opportunities, teaching effectiveness, and teacher retention in high-needs school districts.

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An adult wearing a white t-shirt and blue gloves conducts a scientific experiment with two youth.

14 Jul 2022    

RISE Project aims to improve integrated STEM instruction in elementary classrooms

A newly funded Noyce Track 4 research project, Research on Integrated STEM Self-efficacy (RISE) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, along with three other institutions, will explore links between teachers’ self-efficacy in teaching STEM, teacher preparation and development opportunities, teaching effectiveness, and teacher retention in high-needs school districts.

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13 Jul 2022    

2 CEHS faculty receive Layman Awards to boost research

Two faculty in the College of Education and Human Sciences have received awards to support their research in 2022-23 from the Office of Research and Economic Development through its Layman Awards Program.

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A red graphic with a large group of people and an ice cream cone. The graphic reads "A Taste of OLLI."

12 Jul 2022    By Patricia Saldana - OLLI at UNL

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to Host Ice Cream Social

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will kick-off the 2022-2023 academic year with “A Taste of OLLI” ice cream social, on Friday, August 12, 12:30-3:30 p.m., at the Nebraska East Union in Lincoln.

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30 Jun 2022    By Haley Apel

$1.6M federal award supports academic space at Scarlet Hotel

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to complete an academic facility offering real-world teaching within The Scarlet Hotel.

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Architectural rendering showing a classroom with wooden tables and chairs and several television screens.

30 Jun 2022    By Haley Apel

$1.6M federal award supports academic space at Scarlet Hotel

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to complete an academic facility offering real-world teaching within The Scarlet Hotel.

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Architectural rendering showing a classroom with wooden tables and chairs and several television screens.

30 Jun 2022    By Haley Apel

$1.6M federal award supports academic space at Scarlet Hotel

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce to complete an academic facility offering real-world teaching within The Scarlet Hotel.

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23 Jun 2022    

150 SECD students named to Spring 2022 Deans' List

A total of 150 students in SECD were named to the Deans' List for the 2022 spring semester. To qualify for the Deans' List in the College of Education and Human Sciences, students must earn a 3.75 GPA over a minimum of 12 graded semester hours, while being enrolled full-time.

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