{"id":208,"date":"2021-09-16T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/?page_id=208"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:57:57","slug":"next-steps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group grand_blocks is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"anti_racist\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Anti_racism_and_racial_equity\" data-type=\"internal\">Anti-racism and racial equity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"climate_resilience\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Climate_resilience\" data-type=\"internal\">Climate resilience<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"early_childhood_education\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Early_childhood_education_and_development\">Early childhood education and development<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"health_equity\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Health_equity\">Health equity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"quantum_science_engineering\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Quantum_science_and_engineering\">Quantum science and engineering<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"science_engineering_technology\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Science_and_technology_literacy_for_society\">Science and technology literacy for society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"sustainable_food_water_security\"><a href=\"\/grandchallenges\/framework\/#Sustainable_food_and_water_security\">Sustainable food and water security<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"the-grand-challenges-initiative\">The Grand Challenges Initiative<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Nebraska-Lincoln community has identified seven grand challenge thematic areas in which to focus its expertise and resources, as outlined in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unl.edu\/chancellor\/docs\/N2025-Strategic-Plan.pdf\">N2025 Strategic Plan<\/a>. Now, faculty are charged with imagining how their areas of research, scholarship, creative activity and outreach intersect with these challenges and what specific opportunities within these areas they could work across disciplines to help solve. The Chancellor&#8217;s Office and the Office of Research and Innovation have committed $40 million over four years to invest in strategic, goal-based solutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2024-2025 Schedule of Events<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"scheduleBlock\">\r\n    <div class=\"time\">Oct. 24, 11:00 a.m.<\/div>\r\n    <h4>Grand Challenges Town Hall<\/h4>\r\n    <p class=\"description\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.unl.edu\/town_hall\">Registration is required.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"scheduleBlock\">\r\n    <div class=\"time\">Feb. 6, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Nebraska Union, Regency Suite <\/div>\r\n    <h4>Grand Challenges Lunch and Learn<\/h4>\r\n    <p class=\"description\"><p>Nathan Meier, associate vice chancellor for research, capacity and competitiveness, will address questions about the 2025 request for proposals and the process for providing notice of intent to submit. Only catalyst proposals will be accepted in 2025, the final year of the initiative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Faculty members who have Grand Challenges-funded projects will lead a panel discussion and share their tips for success. The panelists, all of whom lead catalyst projects, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Galen Erickson, Nebraska Cattle Industry Professor of animal science.\n<li>Tomas Helikar, Eberhard Professor of biochemistry.\n<li>Yusong Li, associate dean for faculty and inclusion, and professor of civil and environmental engineering.\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/events\/event_nuramp.php?EMSEventUUID=2152cd2f-055f-415b-a4dc-25808fc48bd5\">Registration is required.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-racism and racial equity Climate resilience Early childhood education and development Health equity Quantum science and engineering Science and technology literacy for society Sustainable food and water security The Grand Challenges Initiative The University of Nebraska-Lincoln community has identified seven grand challenge thematic areas in which to focus its expertise and resources, as outlined in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-208","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":155,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/208\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/grandchallenges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}