{"id":386,"date":"2022-04-11T14:05:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/springresearchdays\/?p=386"},"modified":"2022-04-11T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T14:17:54","slug":"2022-student-research-days-spotlights-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.unl.edu\/springresearchdays\/2022-student-research-days-spotlights-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Student Research Days Spotlights: Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This is a series highlighting undergraduate and graduate students who are participating in the Student Research Days poster sessions April 11-12. <\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Undergraduate: Aline Abayo<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Major: senior in integrated science with a concentration in agricultural economics and statistics<\/strong> 
Project: econometrics of the coffee industry for farmers<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aline Abayo believes one solution to lagging coffee profits for African producers may be focusing on selling more of their product within the continent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abayo, a senior majoring in integrated science with a concentration in agricultural economics and statistics, studied the econometrics of the coffee industry for farmers in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Cameroon, Madagascar, Cote d\u2019Ivoire and Tanzania. She gathered data from coffee production for these significant suppliers from 1990 to 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSome farmers reported they\u2019re not having much profits even though the industry doing very well,\u201d she said. \u201cIt didn\u2019t ring well with me. I was wondering why that was happening.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among her findings: Prices paid to growers roughly track with growth of the United States\u2019 gross national product since the U.S. is among the biggest coffee consumers in the world. However, data shows that climate change will negatively affect coffee growers, both in terms of prices and their production costs. Growers should focus on varieties that are less susceptible to climate change, she suggested <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abayo believes African policy makers should focus on regional trade agreements that would allow the continent\u2019s growers to grab more of the coffee market there. \u201cIn addition, RTAs would allow African coffee producers to share technology, invest in regional research enhancement, gain a competitive advantage and also have a significant collective impact in the global coffee market.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMoreover, we recommend policy makers facilitate and inspire quality enhancement and differentiation in the coffee industry. This would allow African coffee farmers to meet the current need for specialty coffee in United States and European Union.\u201d  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Graduate: Beth Dotan<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Major: doctoral student in Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education <\/strong> 
Project: Nebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first phase of the digital humanities archive, \u201cNebraska Stories of Humanity: Holocaust Survivors and WWII Veterans,\u201d is scheduled to go online later this month, but that\u2019s just a beginning, says its coordinator, Beth Dotan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dotan, a doctoral student in Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education, has worked in the Holocaust education field for many years, including at the Ghetto Fighters\u2019 House Museum in Israel and as founding director of the Institute for Holocaust Education in Omaha.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The UNL project aims to highlight survivors and liberators as part of the fabric of Nebraska\u2019s communities and the state\u2019s story. As members of that generation disappear, their families are eager to share their stories, said Dotan, who is presenting this work with Aila Gani\u0107, a UCARE student. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI began to contemplate how can we tell these stories in an active way that provides critical thinking skills?\u201d she said.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initial iteration of the project includes five Nebraskans and their stories \u2013 close to 1,000 individual items, including some 250 letters from a vet who was a liberator at Dachau. It will be a trove for the public, including educators looking for a way to teach this history to their students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this beginning, \u201cwe can seek additional funding and more stories from Nebraskans,\u201d Dotan said. And more Nebraskans will discover their own connections to the Holocaust. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the beauty of using these digital tools. Suddenly, you can search for these things that connect to you personally.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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