As a global pandemic swept across the world during the spring 2020 semester, the entire University of Nebraska-Lincoln community pulled together to continue education for the world’s future leaders, find new ways to pursue impactful research, and manage partnerships in a new normal.
Learn about the incredible faculty who provided innovative courses and research that impacts the world, and the inspiring students who persevered in the light of COVID-19.
Pandemic prompts new six-college collaborative course
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has launched a six-college interdisciplinary course exploring the world’s current circumstances due to COVID-19 through different disciplines and perspectives. Offered as a five-week, online class beginning July 13, it includes more than 30 faculty and staff — the most involved in teaching one course in recent university history. “The COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Industries, People and Society” (UGEP 291) will help students process the coronavirus pandemic and analyze its effects on their own lives and others’. The faculty and staff providing their expertise in topic-driven modules represent 13 departments and academic units.
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University awards 20 grants supporting COVID-19 studies
Twenty University of Nebraska-Lincoln research teams have been selected for internal funding from the Office of Research and Economic Development’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Grant Program. The grants, which total nearly $635,000, support short-term activities that respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The projects come from a wide range of disciplines, funding Husker researchers from 15 departments and schools and four centers and institutes, as well as collaborations with two other University of Nebraska campuses – the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska Omaha.
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Husker researcher helping develop COVID-19 antibody test
Antibodies left behind after COVID-19 are a signal that the body’s immune system fought the virus. But to reveal this information, antibody tests must separate the signal from the noise. It’s a defining concept for University of Nebraska–Lincoln chemist David Hage, whose research in affinity chromatography involves rapidly separating compounds from complex samples. He now joins a nationwide team, led by the company ni2o Inc., that is repurposing patented technologies to develop and manufacture a fast-acting COVID-19 antibody test.
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Honors Program, UNMC partner to offer pandemic seminar
The University Honors Program is offering a new course aimed at exploring the ongoing COVID-19 crisis through the lens of international relations, with a particular emphasis on global leadership. Having started July 13, the new, five-week Honors Seminar features discussions via Zoom three times each week. “Saving the World: Global Leadership in the Time of Pandemics” (UHON 298H) is taught by Patrice McMahon, director of the University Honors Program and a professor of political science.
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COVID-19 Digest: Nebraska U reopens
Starting this week, building access returns to a normal semester schedule. Also, other campus facilities — including Sheldon Museum of Art and the University Libraries — are now open or preparing for students, faculty and staff. Students are moving into university residence halls en masse on Aug. 13.
University awards 20 grants supporting COVID-19 studies
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View the latest updates about the university’s COVID-19 responses at https://covid19.unl.edu.