Assisting with research at Cedar Point Biological Station has given Rhianna Metcalf, a senior biological sciences major from Lincoln, the opportunity to participate in hands-on research, expand her network and learn more about a passion she discovered at the station: parasitology. The experience has given Metcalf a greater appreciation for nature’s systems and how they interact.

Family dynamics among caregivers tend to be complicated. They can become even more complex when grandparents take on co-parenting roles.

Weiman Xu, postdoctoral fellow at the Nebraska Academy for Methodology, Analytics and Psychometrics, recently explored the association between intergenerational co-parenting and children’s social-emotional development.

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center on Children, Families and the Law named Dr. Keith Cruise as its director. Cruise will also hold a faculty position as a professor of psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Longtime Nebraska rancher Homer, Buell’s experience is informing a new UNL research initiative focused on grazing systems and ranch decision-making. As part of the university’s $5 million Advancing Development of Assessments, Practices and Tools project, anthropologist Effie Athanassopoulos and rural sociologist Gwendŵr Meredith are interviewing multigenerational ranch families across Nebraska about stewardship, adaptation and grazing practices.

A newly discovered black fungus that thrives in some of Earth’s harshest environments is helping engineering researchers at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln answer a fundamental question: Why would an organism spend valuable resources producing something that benefits others?

Ashley Poust this summer is taking graduate students into Montana to search for dinosaur fossils and mentoring an undergraduate researcher joining a project in Paraguay studying how fossils form, decay and enter the geologic record.