Tomas Helikar, associate professor of biochemistry at UNL, has a $1.9 million NSF grant from the IUSE program, which seeks to scale up the practices of modeling and simulation in undergraduate life sciences courses using the Cell Collective platform. Read more to get to know Tomas! Continue reading…
STEM CONNECT is pleased to announce the selection of the first Scholars from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Southeast Community College to its scholarship program and STEM community partnership with SCC and Western Nebraska Community College. Continue reading…
Bosley, assistant director for education and outreach with the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, has been named one of 125 IF/THEN Ambassadors by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Continue reading…
Apply now to be a part of CSForAll: Adapt, Implement, and Research at Nebraska (AIR@NE), an NSF-funded grant that examines the adaptation and implementation of a validated K-8 Computer Science curriculum in diverse school districts. The application for Cohort 2 in Grand Island is now open! Continue reading…
Nominate a teacher for the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching! This year's awards will honor science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and/or computer science teachers working in grades K-6. Nominations close on March 1, 2020. Continue reading…
Under the Environmental Education Grants Program, EPA seeks grant applications from eligible applicants to support environmental education projects that promote environmental awareness and stewardship and help provide people with the skills to take responsible actions to protect the environment. Thi Continue reading…
The Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award is given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to creative and innovative use of technology in education by K-12 educators or district-level education personnel. The deadline for the 2020 award is Jan. 10. Continue reading…
Projects make use of expertise from a variety of fields, including survey methodology, survey statistics, economics and other social science disciplines to design, study, implement and conduct national surveys to measure the science and engineering enterprise. Continue reading…