Nebraska would not be the same without the incredible faculty at the university. This section highlights faculty that have been featured across campus in the last month for their research achievements, academic work, and journey to Nebraska.
This month, learn about faculty Fulbright experiences, professional organization presidencies, breakthrough research, and novel releases.
First-generation professor teaches Serbians about Chicano culture through Fulbright program
Amelia Montes, an associate professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University, has been a voracious reader all her life. During the 2017-18 academic year, Montes taught Chicano and Latino literature and theory at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia.
Read this story on the Daily Nebraskan.
Moeller completes year as world language ambassador and ACTFL president
Dr. Ali Moeller, professor in the Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education department, is an ambassador of world languages in every manner. As president of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), Moeller, spent 2018 traveling the U.S. and beyond to share the important benefits of learning and teaching a second language.
Read this story in the College of Education and Human Sciences newsletter.
Harwood’s Antarctica discovery surfaces in Nature
David Harwood’s cursory discovery of microscopic animal remains in samples taken from a lake deep beneath the Antarctica Ice Sheet is featured online in an exclusive report by Nature, the international journal of science. The creatures—believed to be crustaceans and a tardigrade, or “water bear”—were discovered as part of the National Science Foundation-funded Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access, or SALSA, project.
Read this story on Nebraska Today.
Nickel and died: Earth’s largest extinction likely took plants first
Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research by an international team led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Team members Christopher Fielding and Tracy Frank explain the surprising evidence found.
Read this story on Nebraska Today.
'Why Jay?': Chigozie Obioma on the haunting death that inspired his novel
Chigozie Obioma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln English professor, got the idea for his second novel from something he witnessed as a student himself in northern Cyprus. An Orchestra of Minorities–Obioma’s second novel after his Man Booker-shortlisted debut The Fishermen–is an Odyssey-like story in which a poultry farmer from Nigeria undertakes a journey to prove himself worthy of the woman he loves.
Read this story on The Guardian.
To submit a faculty or staff feature for the next edition of the Global Nebraska newsletter, please contact Courtney Van Hoosen in the Office of Global Strategies at cvanhoosen2@unl.edu.