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10 Aug 2015    

Speech language pathology and audiology programs at UNL are alive and well and growing

A recent article in the Omaha World Herald has raised concerns that the Speech Language Pathology and Audiology programs at UNL may be closing. This could not be farther from the truth! Our programs are alive and well and growing.



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04 Aug 2015    By Alyssa Amen | CYFS

Visiting Brazilian scholar discusses early childhood development

To mark the start of an emerging partnership between the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Brazilian early childhood researchers, the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools (CYFS) hosted an Aug. 11 presentation at the Nebraska Union by Ricardo Paes de Barros, a leading Brazilian economist.

Barros' presentation was titled “The Status of Early Childhood Development in Brazil and its Progress Over the Past Decade: Programs, Outcomes and Legislation,” and was open to faculty and students.



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24 Jul 2015    By Melissa Lee | NU Central Administration

Hall earns Presidential Fellowship

Nutrition and Health Sciences doctoral student Elisha Hall has earned a prestigious University of Nebraska Presidential Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. She is one of just six recipients across the NU system. Presidential Fellowships honor a select group of NU graduate students each year based on high scholastic performance and personal accomplishment. She will receive a stipend provided through the NU Foundation that allows her to pursue her studies full-time.



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07 Jul 2015    

IQSCM receives NAC grant

The International Quilt Study Center & Museum (IQSCM) announced July 7, 2015 that it has been awarded a grant of $27,540 by the Nebraska Arts Council. This grant will support the museum’s programs, operations and exhibitions during 2015-2016 fiscal year.



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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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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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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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Assistant Professor Beth Niehaus talks about presenting and publishing at the 2014 Sybouts seminar

02 Jun 2015    

EDAD to host 5th Annual Sybouts Student Research Seminar June 12

The Department of Educational Administration (EDAD) will host the Sybouts Student Research Seminar on June 12 in Teachers College Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s City campus. The seminar will give graduate students an opportunity to present their research, connect with their peers and learn about ways student research may be supported.



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NHS students land prestigious scholarships for study abroad experiences

02 Jun 2015    By McKenzie Swanson

NHS students land prestigious scholarships for study abroad experiences

Two students in the Nutrition and Health Sciences (NHS) program have been awarded prestigious scholarships that will enable them to study abroad beginning in the summer of 2015. Maggie Dawson, a senior dietetics major, earned a David L. Boren Scholarship that will take her to Mozambique. Tau’Toya Broadway, a junior nutrition major, received a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for her trip to Ethiopia.



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