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04 Dec 2015    By Melissa Lee | NU Central Administration

Mabel Lee Hall prioritized for future renovation

Mabel Lee Hall, a mainstay of the College of Education and Human Sciences, is on the short list for proposed capital improvement funding. The University of Nebraska and the state would continue a long and successful partnership to maintain the quality and functionality of NU buildings under a 12-year capital plan announced Dec. 3 by President Hank Bounds. The proposal, endorsed unanimously by the Board of Regents at its Dec. 3 meeting, will be brought to the legislature and governor for consideration in the 2016 session.



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03 Dec 2015    By Brooke Sullivan

College of Education and Human Sciences Collegewide Food Drive

The College of Education and Human Sciences is hosting a collegewide food drive for the Food Bank of Lincoln from Dec. 3-15. Donation barrels will be placed in Henzlik Hall, Teachers College Hall, Mabel Lee Hall, Human Sciences Building , and Leverton Hall.

Our goal is to reach 500 donated food items. If we reach that goal, we will celebrate with donuts on Jan. 11 in the Human Sciences Building and Henzlik Hall.



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24 Nov 2015    By Brooke Sullivan

EDAD students take first place in NASPA case study competition

The Educational Administration department sent three student affairs master’s cohort students to the NASPA Region IV-W Conference in Beaver Creek, CO November 8-12 to compete in a case study. NASPA is a professional organization for student affairs administrators and students interested in student affairs.



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Steven Barlow

17 Nov 2015    

Barlow honored by ASHA

Steven Barlow, Corwin Moore Professor in the Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders, has received the highest honor of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).

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11 Nov 2015    

Quilt scholar Dr. Virginia Gunn to present public lecture Dec. 6

Part English, Part German, Fully American:  Influences on Red & Green Appliqued Quilts, a free public lecture will be presented by Dr. Virginia Gunn a quilt scholar, author, and professor at the University of Akron on December 6, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., Human Sciences Building Room 31.


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03 Nov 2015    

CEHS Student Research and Creative Activity Fair Nov. 14

CEHS undergraduate and graduate students will share their work with fellow students, faculty and other educators and community members Saturday, Nov. 14 at Teachers College Hall and the Henzlik Hub. Other UNL students and recent alums who have engaged in the study of education and/or human sciences have also been invited to share.

The aim of the conference is to give students an opportunity to showcase their work and dialogue with peers and mentors about important issues in education and the human sciences. 

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22 Oct 2015    

Swearer featured in recent bullying news

Willa Cather Distinguished Professorship Susan Swearer from the Department of Educational Psychology is featured in two new anti-bullying announcements this week—“I Am A Witness,” a digital-focused advertising campaign, and an Oct. 21 article in “The New Yorker.”

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15 Oct 2015    

Niehaus earns grants to study student engagement

Elizabeth Niehaus, assistant professor in Educational Administration, has been awarded two grants to study Caribbean student engagement in higher education. The American College Personnel Association Foundation awarded a $2,500 grant and the NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators In Higher Education) Foundation awarded $4,650--both projects are housed in the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools.


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15 Oct 2015    By Lindsay Augustyn, Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education, and Robb Crouch, University of Nebraska Foundation.

Primarily Math wins grant from Women Investing in Nebraska

Primarily Math, a program of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with objectives to transform K–3 mathematics education in Nebraska, has received a $53,700 grant award from Women Investing in Nebraska. 


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14 Oct 2015    

Wang to lecture on "Context and Language Transfer" Nov. 5

Chuming Wang, president of the Chinese Society of Second Language Research and professor of English at the National Research Center for Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, will deliver a university wide lecture entitled “Context and Language Transfer” from 4–5 p.m., Nov. 5, 2015 in Othmer Hall, Room 105. The lecture, sponsored by UNL's Confucius Institute and the Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, will be followed by a reception to which all are invited to meet Dr. Wang.



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