Tag: Community Impact
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Beautifying communities through street art
Nebraska artist Sandra Williams’ work seeks to facilitate social change by revealing a community’s unique identity, often in partnership with others. Her art can be experienced as finely detailed paper cuts, imaginative paintings or sweeping murals. Within these forms, her work interweaves interest in her Indigenous Peruvian roots, a love of animals, and the friction…
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Improving the lives of youth experiencing homelessness
Youth experiencing homelessness often lack daily contact with supportive people, leaving them more vulnerable to alcohol and drug misuse at critical junctures. Kimberly Tyler Husker sociologist Kimberly Tyler believes an app-based intervention could help fill that gap and redirect these youth when substance misuse may be tempting: in times of poor mental health, after sexual…
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Unraveling drug use and misuse in rural areas
Describing initial research discoveries as “eye opening,” scientists in the Rural Drug Addiction Research Center are building upon a strong foundation to develop partnerships with communities across Nebraska to address drug use and misuse. RDAR, founded in 2019, earned a five-year, $11,597,682 Phase 2 renewal grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Centers of Biomedical…
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Nebraska holds Carnegie designation for engagement
In recognition of its wide-ranging outreach efforts across Nebraska, the university earned the Carnegie Foundation’s community engagement classification in 2024. Chancellor Rodney D. Bennett said, “The Carnegie Engaged Campus designation is a testament to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s ongoing commitment to advance communities across Nebraska. This designation is a significant milestone in our university’s 154-year…
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Supporting the next generation of teachers
Fewer students are choosing careers in education, or they become disenchanted before their careers are fully launched. Without them, schools face a growing shortage of schoolteachers, particularly in districts with increased ethno-racial and linguistic diversity. To bolster teacher ranks, Nebraska launched Project RAÍCES, a pilot program to help recruit, retain and diversify the next generation…
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Fortifying communities for future weather threats
The 2019 flooding in Nebraska stands out for its ferocity, but it was part of a national two-decade trend of floods that are more widespread, longer lasting and more costly. Husker experts are working with communities and regional planners to develop long-term mitigation plans that will better position the state for future severe weather. The…
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Forging partnerships for biodiversity education
Students living in rural and tribal communities are surrounded by a remarkable range of biodiversity: Grasses, flowers and wildlife are centerpieces of these youths’ lives. A display at the Fort Washakie School and Community Library located in Fort Washakie, Wyoming, part of the Wind River Indian Reservation. The library primarily serves the Eastern Shoshone Native…
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Uniting around a shared history
Nearly 150 years ago, the Otoe-Missouria Tribe was forced to relocate from southeast Nebraska to Oklahoma. Today, Nebraskans are welcoming back the tribal nation. Margaret Jacobs, director of Nebraska’s Center for Great Plains Studies, and Christina Faw Faw Goodson, an Otoe-Missouria educator, historian and cultural linguist, co-lead a multifaceted project aiming to reconnect Otoe-Missourians with…