Tag: Economic Impact
Expanding graduate education, job opportunities for students
Vanessa Whitmore grew up on a farm near Shelby, Nebraska. She became interested in food science in high school and earned an undergraduate degree in the field in 2020, then spent a year in a temporary teaching position at UNL. “I loved talking about science with people,” said Whitmore, who then worked for Smithfield Foods […]
Driving entrepreneurship through collaboration
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is part of a National Science Foundation hub aimed at moving university research into the real world. Nebraska joined NSF’s Great Lakes Innovation Corps Hub, formed in 2021 with the goal of reimagining the lab-to-marketplace pipeline and equipping technical leaders with skills, networking opportunities and an entrepreneurial mindset. Including UNL, the […]
