Yahya Shema
UNL student promotes wildlife conservation, Rwandan culture via card game

While card games can serve as a fun distraction from matters of the outside world, one University of Nebraska-Lincoln student and his friends saw the opportunity to break the mold and forge an experience through the medium that's as informative as it is entertaining. Shema Yahya, a third-year integrated science major from Rwanda, is the architect behind a business venture he started with a few fellow Rwandan students, which is a card game called Muco.

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Students wearing traditional clothing
Students needed to model for campus ‘Global Glam’ fashion show

In alignment with the Forward Together global strategy's goal of expanding international opportunities for students, the International Student and Scholar Office is seeking student volunteers to model for "Global Glam: A Night of Fashion, Diversity and Community."

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Tomas Helikar
Husker researcher takes another step toward virtual immune system

The renewal of a National Institutes of Health grant will enable a University of Nebraska–Lincoln researcher to continue developing a tool that illuminates the complex, multi-scale interplay of the immune system's many components. Tomas Helikar, Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of biochemistry, will use the five-year, $1.8 million grant from the NIH's Maximizing Investigators' Research Award program to advance his work on a virtual immune system aimed at increasing the understanding of immune-related diseases and ramping up the speed and efficiency of drug development.

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More than 100 international students marched under the flags of their nations
International units realigned under Global Affairs

In alignment with the Forward Together global strategy, University of Nebraska–Lincoln offices that lead the institution’s international efforts — the Office of Global Partnerships and Initiatives, Global Experiences Office, Global Safety and Security, International Student and Scholar Office, and Programs in English as a Second Language — are part of a renamed organizational umbrella, Global Affairs.

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Leila Chatti
Leila Chatti wins 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry

Tunisian-American poet Leila Chatti has been named the winner of the African Poetry Book Fund's 2021 Luschei Prize for African Poetry, for her collection "Deluge." Award-winning author and poet Chris Abani judged this year's prize, which annually awards $1,000 to a book of poetry by an African writer published in the previous year.

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First Husker Trade Talk Feb. 25

The Clayton Yeutter Institute of International trade and Finance invites all students to attend Husker Trade Talks, a new career and policy discussion series kicking off February 25. Husker Trade Talks will feature free lunch (or breakfast!) and career insights and policy discussions with international trade experts at the top of their field.

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Jae Sung Park
Park aims to understand mysteries of turbulence to save lives, resources

In trying to solve a mysterious problem of physics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln engineer Jae Sung Park expects to encounter more than a fair share of turbulence along the way. Having earned a five-year, $508,780 Faculty Early Career Development Program award from the National Science Foundation, Park is aiming to solve one of the great problems in science — discovering patterns or orders in turbulent flows of gases and liquids, and then developing methods of exploiting those orders to mitigate their impact on the world.

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Adria Sanchez-Chiadez stands with some of her designs
Fashion, fandom fused in Sanchez-Chaidez’s designs

Fashion has long been a part of Sanchez-Chaidez's life. Even as a social sciences major at San Diego State University, she often found herself creating lesson plans related to textiles and designs for her practicum students. And, it was San Diego's famed Comic-Con International convention that helped Sanchez-Chaidez find a path toward fashion design.

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Fellows gather for a group photo while touring Memorial Stadium
Mandela Washington Fellowship returns to Nebraska in summer 2022

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is proud to announce its selection as an Institute Partner for the 2022 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. Beginning in mid-June, the university will host 25 of Africa’s bright, emerging civic engagement leaders for a six-week leadership institute, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State.

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Emma Spence
Canadian gymnast finds home at Nebraska

Elite Nebraska freshman gymnast Emma Spence is ready for a new adventure after moving from Cambridge, Ontario, Canada to compete for the Huskers. After starting gymnastics at around seven years old, Spence built up quite the resume, earning a spot on the Canadian National Team in 2017 and placing high in multiple international competitions representing her home country. In 2020, she was an alternate for the Canadian Olympic team.

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