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11 Apr 2014

Jameson, NHS major, awarded Fulbright Scholarship

Abigail Jameson, a nutrition and health sciences major, has been awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship Scholarship to Indonesia for the 2014-2015 academic year.

Jameson, a graduate of Grand Island Senior High School, is a member of UNL's William H. Thompson Learning Community. She is the first UNL student to receive a Fulbright Award this year.

The Fulbright Program, established in 1946 and funded by the U.S. Department of State, is designed to foster understanding between the United States and other countries.

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25 Mar 2014

Romagnolo to present Apr. 2 NGN Seminar Series talk at 12:00 p.m.

Donato Romagnolo, Professor member of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and ,the University of Arizona Cancer Center, University of Arizona will present a talk entitled, “You AhR What You Ate: Linking Diet with Cancer Risk.”

The Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Seminar is scheduled for Apr. 2, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., at the Nebraska East Union. This is a brown bag event with coffee and dessert provided.

All interested faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend this free seminar.

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18 Mar 2014

Carr honored by Nebraska Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta

Tim Carr, chair of the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences is one of four UNL faculty members recently honored with faculty awards by the Nebraska Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, the honor society of agriculture.

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14 Mar 2014

Murphy to present next NGN Seminar presentation Mar. 19

Robert Murphy, University Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, will present the next NGN Series Seminar talk. His presentation is entitled, “Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: Biosynthesis and Metabolism in Human Health and Disease as Revealed by Mass Spectrometry.”

The Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Seminar presentation is scheduled for March. 19, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Nebraska East Union. This is a brown bag event with coffee and dessert provided.

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14 Feb 2014

Chung to present next NGN Series Seminar talk

Soonkyu Chung, Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences, will present a talk entitled, “Establishment and Characterization of in Vitro Model of Human Beige Adipocytes via Adenoviral Delivery of BMP7.”

The Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Seminar is scheduled for Feb. 19, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Nebraska East Union. This is a brown bag event with coffee and dessert provided.

All interested faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend this free seminar.

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14 Feb 2014

HSDO builds entrepreneurial skills with gift basket sales for Student Appreciation Week

Students in the Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management program are getting some hands-on entrepreneurial experience as they also raise funds to support the Hospitality Student Development Organization. HSDO is offering appreciation baskets for sale to celebrate Student Worker Appreciation Week, Apr. 14-18.

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14 Feb 2014

CEHS Staff Council invites all to presentation on India, Feb. 26

HRTM students and faculty traveled to India as part of a study tour over the winter break. They visited four cities and learned about the people, culture, and food of India. Some of their experiences included visiting the Taj Mahal at sunrise, tiger sightings on safari at Ranthambore National Park, and attending a tea appreciation workshop with a master tea taster.

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03 Feb 2014

Cui to present next NGN Seminar Series Feb. 5

Juan Cui, Assistant Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering, will present a talk entitled, “From Biomarker Discovery to Molecular Mechanism Study: A Bioinformatics Approach to
Gastric Cancer Research.

The Nebraska Gateway to Nutrigenomics Seminar is schedules for Feb. 5, 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Nebraska East Union. This is a brown bag event with coffee and dessert provided.

All interested faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend this free seminar.

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29 Jan 2014

Pospishil, HRTM student, selected for internship at 2014 Cannes International Film Festival

Stevie Pospishil, a Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management (HRTM) major has been selected to be a student intern at the 2014 Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France this coming May 11-26.

The program provides experience to students interested in film, culinary arts and hospitality/event management. “The Hospitality/Event Internship at the Cannes is an internship I brought to the HRTM program when I started at UNL four years ago. This was possible because of my network with the American Pavilion,” Gina Fe Causin, Assistant Professor in HRTM, stated.

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29 Jan 2014

Causin is invited speaker at Agri/Eco Tourism Conference Feb. 3-5, 2014

Gina Fe Causin, Assistant Professor in Hospitality, Restaurant and Tourism Management, has been invited by the Nebraska Tourism Commission to present two presentations at its February 3-5, 2014 Agri/Eco-Tourism Conference in Kearney, NE.

Causin’s presentations will focus on event planning and planning green events. Attendees will learn how to identify the dimension of an event experience, forecast potential gaps and discrepancies, and understand why events should go green.

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