he Nebraska Governance and Technology Center (NGTC) has announced its second class of student fellows, with students from graduate programs across the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and kicked off the academic year last week.
Members of the class come from a diverse range of programs—from Integrated Media Communications, to Computer Engineering, to Law—but share a common interest in exploring the pressing issues technology fosters within society from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Each NGTC student fellow will join a multidisciplinary team tasked with investigating a technology-related topic of their choosing over the course of the academic year. Led by the center’s research associate Neil Rutledge, their fall research will culminate in a group project that leverages their team’s diverse talents to produce a project emphasizing creativity and drawing on the group's unique skill-set. In the spring, each group will turn its attention to developing and producing an episode of the NGTC’s popular podcast, Tech Refactored, delivering insights into the topic they’ve been researching this academic year.
In addition to their research and project development, NGTC student fellows will participate in select events with the NGTC’s faculty fellows and will have the opportunity to attend lectures from leading experts in their fields. A further goal of the student fellows program is to create a community of scholars that could provide opportunities for future collaboration; to that end the student fellows program also includes various social events throughout the year.
2021-22 Nebraska Governance and Technology Center Student Fellows
- Mei Fong Looi — College of Business
- Paige Ross — College of Law
- David Ornelas — College of Journalism and Mass Communications
- Ece Baskol — College of Business
- Bogac Canbaz — College of Engineering
- Morgan Armstrong — College of Law
- Izuchukwu Mbaraonye — College of Business
- Alicia Christensen — College of Law
- Joshua Alexander Lee — College of Law
- Christopher Clark — Colleges of Engineering and Arts & Sciences
- Garrett Wirka — College of Engineering
- Jeffrey Owusu-Ansah — College of Law
Launched in 2020, the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center is focused on the changing relationship between law and technology and its effects on society. The center is housed in the College of Law and includes an interdisciplinary team of students, faculty and researchers engaging in study with the Colleges of Business, Engineering, and Journalism and Mass Communications. Learn more at ngtc.unl.edu or contact the center’s Executive Director Elsbeth Magilton at elsbeth@unl.edu.