Posted September 1, 2026 by Ashley Washburn
Three faculty teams have been selected through a competitive application process to participate in the inaugural 2026 Collaboration Accelerator program, an initiative of the Office of Research and Innovation.
The cohort-based program is designed to accelerate faculty teams’ readiness, competitiveness and collaboration. Selected teams will participate in five virtual sessions focused on refining their team vision, identifying leadership strengths, developing stakeholder engagement strategies and building a comprehensive collaboration action plan.
The program began in September and will conclude in October. The teams and core participants are as follows.
Nebraska Adaptive Resilience Technology Collaborative
- Chun-Hsing (Jun) Ho, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
- Milad Roohi, Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction
- Mark Stone, biological systems engineering
- Hongfeng Yu, School of Computing
Nebraska Center for Environmental Resilience and Transformative Technologies (NCERTT)
- Nirupam Aich, civil and environmental engineering
- Shannon Bartelt-Hunt, civil and environmental engineering
- Xu Li, civil and environmental engineering
- Yusong Li, civil and environmental engineering
- Tirthankar Roy, civil and environmental engineering
Testing Ag Performance Solutions (TAPS) Multi-State Agricultural Decision Systems Network
- Amy Kremen, Colorado State University
- Brenda Ortiz, Auburn University
- Chris Proctor, agronomy and horticulture
- Daran Rudnick, Kansas State University
- Kevin Wagner, Oklahoma State University
Applications for the next cohort will open in spring 2027. Visit the Collaboration Accelerator website to learn more about the program.
