Nebraska Extension staff pose at the 2021 Afro Fest Omaha festival. It supports the festival by hosting a booth with community resources and partnering with Global Affairs to sponsor the event.
Nebraska Extension expands global support, engages local international community

Several university offices, including Nebraska Extension, the Office of Global Partnerships & Initiatives, Student Affairs, and the African Student Association, partnered to provide sponsorship and support for the 2021 Afro Fest Omaha. The annual festival honors Omaha’s expanding community of African refugees, immigrants, local businesses and entrepreneurs that mark one of the largest African immigrant populations in the United States, while also connecting communities across Nebraska.

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Faculty at public universities in Senegal has a zoom session where they learned about evidence-based STEM education strategies through the UPI Senegal program taught by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Cross-campus partnership supports STEM education in Senegal

For the last ten months, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has hosted several Senegalese faculty for a virtual training program on best practices for teaching science, technology, engineering and mathematics through the University Partnerships Initiative Senegal program. 

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A father is reading a children’s book illustration to his baby.
Community partnership creates multicultural story repository for Lincoln children

For six weeks this summer, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln virtually engaged with 25 young African leaders from 17 countries as part of the U.S. State Department Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders in Civic Engagement Institute initiative. As part of the Leadership Institute’s community service component, each Fellow recorded childhood stories from their countries for providers from Lincoln Littles, a group supporting and advocating for high-quality early childhood education in the Lincoln community.

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Emira Ibrahimpasic and Kate Kunzman were awarded the 2021 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design by The Forum on Education Abroad.
Ibrahimpasic, Kunzman nationally recognized for education abroad curriculum design

Emira Ibrahimpasic, assistant professor of practice in the School of Global Integrative Studies, and Kate Kunzman, Education Abroad coordinator in the College of Arts and Sciences, earned the 2021 Award for Excellence in Education Abroad Curriculum Design from The Forum on Education Abroad for their summer 2021 course, "Negotiating Peace: From Conflict to Coexistence."

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Rice Farm.
Researchers analyze roadmaps toward larger, greener global rice bowl

Producing more rice on existing cropland, and doing so while minimizing the environmental impact, is a challenge. New research led by Shaobing Peng, a professor of agronomy at Huazhong Agricultural University, and Patricio Grassini, associate professor of agronomy at Nebraska and co-leader of the Global Yield Gap Atlas, provides an analysis of roadmaps toward sustainable intensification for a larger global rice bowl.

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Skyline of Lincoln buildings.
Grand Challenges scoping, diversity workshops planned

The Office of Research and Economic Development is hosting upcoming Grand Challenges events on diversity planning Dec. 9 and ideation and team development Jan. 11-13 to build upon the series of community-building events held this semester.

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Ilya Kravchenko, Dan Claes, Frank Golf and Ken Bloom pose for the camera. They are members of Nebraska’s Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Husker team takes leading role at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has received a five-year, $51 million grant from the National Science Foundation that will advance cutting-edge work in subatomic physics at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest, most powerful particle accelerator located near Geneva, Switzerland.

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Members of Expedition 396 on a board.
Two-month expedition at sea proves adventure of lifetime for Husker geologist

For geophysicist Irina Filina and fellow members of Expedition 396, time-traveling to the volcanically active sauna of prehistoric Earth meant drilling for long-cooled magma resting miles beneath the chop and churn of the North Atlantic.

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Olha Tytarenko poses in her office in Oldfather Hall on Friday, Nov. 19, 2021, in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Russian students discuss navigating campus life, getting involved

Violetta Bakunina was 16 years old when she had to leave her home behind. Her mother was expecting another child, and with subpar healthcare facilities in Bakunina’s hometown of Anapa, Russia, the family made the decision to move to Lincoln.

The move wasn’t initially intended to be a permanent one. Her father still ran a business in Russia, and the thought was that they would move back after her mother gave birth. But with mounting political tensions and anti-American sentiment breeding suspicion of her father’s business among local Russian authorities, Bakunina’s family had to make a choice.

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A United States and Brazilian flag.
São Paulo Research Foundation announces call for 2021 proposals

The Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources (IANR) in partnership with the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announce the call for proposals under the SPRINT initiative - São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration.  The call for proposals aims to promote the engagement of researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo.

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