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Dec 20 2024	The Washington Post: Alexandria estate with Civil War ties on the market for $11.5 million A 2013 op-ed for The New York Times by William G. Thomas III, professor of history and Angle Chair in the Humanities, was highlighted in a Dec. 20 Washington Post article on an Alexandria, Virginia, estate known as Clarens, which has ties to the Civil War. The property is on the market for $11.5 million. Thomas lived at the estate in his youth and was told that the site had been a hospital for Fort Williams and that the carriage house was used to store the bodies of dead soldiers, though research has yielded no confirmations.
Dec 18 2024	Medical Xpress: Study reveals link between home kitchens, adolescents' health Saira Sarwar, a graduate student in psychology at Nebraska, is the lead author of a new study highlighting the significant influence of the home food environment on adolescent dietary patterns compared to neighborhood food options. The study investigates the roles of home and neighborhood food environments like fast-food and convenience stores in shaping dietary behaviors among adolescents, offering valuable insights for addressing adolescent obesity. Medical Xpress ran a Dec. 18 article on the research.
Dec 18 2024	Centre Daily Times: Board approves external bullying review in State College schools Susan Swearer, Willa Cather Professor and chair of educational psychology, has been hired by the State College (Pennsylvania) School District to help review its code of conduct, bullying policies and mental health programming, the Centre Daily Times reported Dec. 18. The move comes about seven months after an eighth-grade student in the district died by suicide. Swearer is co-director of the Bullying Research Network and director of the Bullying Research and Victim Empowerment Lab at Nebraska.
Dec 18 2024	York News-Times: Koch named Chancellor's Scholar at Nebraska Eighteen Husker students will be recognized as Chancellor’s Scholars during the undergraduate commencement ceremony Dec. 21 at Pinnacle Bank Arena. Chancellor’s Scholars are students who have maintained 4.0 grade-point averages on all collegiate work at Nebraska and elsewhere. The Norfolk Daily News and York News-Times have run articles on Chancellor’s Scholars from their areas.
Dec 18 2024	Farms.com: Extension receives $300K to strengthen extreme weather preparedness, response Nebraska Extension has received a $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to engage in a statewide collaborative strategy strengthening preparedness and response capabilities to address extreme weather events. Farms.com ran a Dec. 18 article on the project.
Dec 18 2024	Tri-State Livestock News: High Plains center helps maintain information flow after hurricane The university’s High Plains Regional Climate Center has taken on additional responsibilities since Hurricane Helene shut down a crucial climate center in North Carolina in September, Tri-State Livestock News reported Dec. 18. The High Plains center has partnered with five other regional climate centers across the country to keep information flowing.
Dec 17 2024	Nebraska Public Media: Are schools equipped to make inclusion method work? Rebekah Hitz, a 2023 Husker alumna, and Gracyn Scott, a senior elementary education and special education (K-6) major, were interviewed for a Dec. 17 Nebraska Public Media story on the inclusion method for special education. Hitz is a second-year elementary teacher at Boston Public Schools, and Scott plans to stay in Nebraska after graduation.
Dec 17 2024	KOLN/KGIN: UNL students help Kimball grow Fourth-year students in the College of Architecture, led by faculty Nate Bicak and Steve Hardy, are working with residents and leaders of Kimball, Nebraska, to create a sustainability plan and design concepts for the town’s projected growth. KOLN/KGIN and the Sidney Sun-Telegraph have run stories on the project.
Dec 17 2024	KOLN/KGIN: 'Snowball Slingshot for Good' raises money to get Lincoln kids outdoors KOLN/KGIN aired a story on the “Snowball Slingshot for Good” fundraiser Dec. 17 at Lincoln advertising agency Swanson Russell. The event raised money for the nonprofit Big Gumdrop Outdoors, founded by graduating senior Elijah Riley.
Dec 16 2024	Lincoln Journal Star: UNL photographer Craig Chandler calls it a career The Lincoln Journal Star published a Dec. 16 article on Craig Chandler, director of photography in the Office of University Communication and Marketing, who is retiring in December after 16-and-a-half years at the university. Six of his photographs were also featured in the story.
Dec 16 2024	Nebraska Examiner: Atypical Nebraska housing project aims at 'housing crisis and silver tsunami' Graduate students in the College of Architecture’s Fabrication and Construction Team (FACT) studio have teamed up with Partners for Livable Omaha to create two small-house prototypes to help address Omaha’s affordable housing shortage, Nebraska Examiner reported Dec. 16. The studio is led by Jeffrey L. Day, professor of architecture and landscape architecture and a founding partner of Actual Architecture Co. KOLN/KGIN has picked up the Examiner article.
Dec 15 2024	Lincoln Journal Star: UNL experts to help collect, digitize Malone Center's archives With $235,196 in grant funding from the Council of Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries and the Malone Center will embark on a three-year project to prepare, digitize and provide worldwide access to more than 6,000 unique, historically significant documents from the center. KOLN/KGIN and the Lincoln Journal Star have published stories on the project.