Grand Challenges News & Information

Nebraska researchers are invited to a Nov. 15 Grand Challenges panel discussion aimed at helping faculty sharpen their project planning skills for the Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition and beyond.

Over the last two and a half decades, Michelle Hughes has dedicated her primary line of research to improving outcomes for people with cochlear implants. Now, with a new Grand Challenges planning grant, she’s expanding her research efforts to try to determine the biggest barriers and potential solutions to improving overall health in underserved populations.

Thanks to a Grand Challenges grant, an interdisciplinary team of student and faculty researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln is re-imagining a decommissioned Atlas-F missile silo near Seward, Nebraska, into the Ice Coring and Education Silo Center. Upon its completion, the facility would be the first facility of its kind in the world.

The Grand Challenges 2024 request for proposals is now available. An Oct. 10 town hall provides an opportunity to ask questions.

The high-impact research projects funded through the second Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition were announced Aug. 28.

ORED is seeking volunteers to serve as reviewers of Grand Challenges planning grant proposals. Reviewers are needed from every discipline at the university.

A virtual Town Hall meeting at 11 a.m.-noon on Feb. 15 offers a forum to ask questions about the request for proposals and will provide details about the Notice of Intent to Submit due Feb. 28.

After decades of work, many researchers believe climate change poses the greatest global threat to human health — and that youth are the most vulnerable to the impacts and most-dire consequences, both today and in the future.

University of Nebraska–Lincoln students and researchers are working to bring new life to a Cold War relic in Nebraska.

Researchers looking for secrets to success in the Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition received helpful advice during a Nov. 14 discussion panel featuring four Husker faculty from three winning teams in the contest’s first cycle.

Sarah Zuckerman and her team are using a Grand Challenges Catalyst Competition planning grant to lead a project that leverages collaboration among researchers, practitioners and community members to reduce educational and health inequities in Nebraska.

With funding from a $3.21 million UNL Grand Challenges Catalyst Award, a Nebraska researcher is co-leading a four-year project to establish an Indigenous-led sexual violence prevention center on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.