The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension Connect newsletter for August now is distributed. The cover story for this issue is on how UNL Extension has an increasing international presence doing what extension does best -- helping people. Other stories include:
- extension's efforts to increase entrepreneurship in rural and urban Nebraska
- a systems approach to crop water use in west central Nebraska
- a new iPad application to speed scouting for aphids
- the Wired for Wind 2011 National Science Experiment developed in Nebraska
- teaching youth animal responsibility
- bedbug awareness and
- food safety related to children.
All describe how UNL Extension helps people "Know how. Know now."
Connectshowcases a number of extension programs and the diverse and important ways extension benefits Nebraskans. Connect can serve as a real springboard for you in talking with stakeholders about extension work statewide, as well as the specific programs you want to highlight in your areas.
Connect is distributed to many audiences, including Agriculture Builders of Nebraska, Inc., state
senators, U.S. senators and representatives from Nebraska, LEAD alums, Nebraska AgRelations
Council, Natural Resources District managers, extension board members, county
supervisors/commissioners, members of the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce, select media, NU
and UNL administrators, extension faculty and managerial/professional personnel, and extension
retirees.
For more copies of Connect, contact the state extension office at 472-2966 or Cheryl Alberts in
Educational Media at 472-9707. Past newsletters are online at: http://www.extension.unl.edu/connect.
-- Cheryl Alberts
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/c6e