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18 Oct 2021    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Research aims to strengthen Head Start, Early Head Start educators’ well-being

Researchers aim to enhance the well-being of educators in Early Head Start and Head Start programs to support children’s engagement and eventual learning success.

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18 Oct 2021    By Chuck Green, CYFS

Registration open for Fall 2021 Nebraska Methodology Workshop

Registration is now open for the Fall 2021 Nebraska Methodology Workshop, led by Northwestern University’s Elizabeth Tipton, associate professor of statistics.

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12 Oct 2021    By Chuck Green, CYFS

NAECR Knowledge event explores the necessity of secure data storage in early childhood research

A Sept. 30 NAECR Knowledge event focused on the most effective ways to use secure data storage — particularly Microsoft OneDrive — in early childhood research.

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08 Oct 2021    By Haley Apel

Ruth Staples Child Development Laboratory laid the foundation for Huskers’ educational success

Derek Branch feels his experience at Ruth Staples Child Development Lab helped set the tone for his success as a student in K-12 schools, and now as a first-year student at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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Stacie Ray, Hannah Ditmars and seven Husker audiology students pose for a photo with Dr. Marvin Gonzalez and all the supplies they sent with him to Nicaragua in August 2021.

08 Oct 2021    By Kelcey Buck

Huskers maintain hearing healthcare services in Nicaragua despite travel limitations

It has been more than two and a half years since either Stacie Ray or Hannah Ditmars have been to Nicaragua, but that has not stopped them from continuing the project they started in 2015 to provide sustainable hearing healthcare to a country of people desperately in need of such services.

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06 Oct 2021    

Alisa Kushner honored with CEHS Staff Star Award

Alisa Kushner, program coordinator for the Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology and the Counseling and School Psychology Clinic in the Department of Educational Psychology, has been named the recipient of the latest Staff Star Award by the College of Education and Human Sciences Staff Council.

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30 Sep 2021    By Kateri Hartman | University Communication

International award reflects success of sustainability curriculum workshops

Jennifer Johnson Jorgensen’s seven-week Sustainability in Sourcing and Retail curriculum development workshop has earned the Nancy Rutherford Teaching Innovation Award from the International Textile and Apparel Association.

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30 Sep 2021    By Kelcey Buck

Speech-language pathology program provides voice screenings for theatre, film students

A collaborative project a few years in the making finally came to fruition the end of August as five graduate students in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s speech-language pathology program provided voice screenings for nearly 30 theatre and film students in Nebraska’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film.

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29 Sep 2021    By Haley Apel

ROOTS program sets sights on preparing Indigenous school leaders

A new grant from the U.S. Department of Education will allow the Roots Teacher Education Program to expand its efforts and focus on training Indigenous school principals and administrators.

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27 Sep 2021    By Chuck Green, CYFS

NAECR selects 2021-22 Policy Fellows

Five faculty members have been selected to serve as 2021-22 NAECR Policy Fellows.

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