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“Chronicle: Celebrating Black History Month,” a production by KETV in Omaha, featured the work Nebraska’s Marianna Burks is doing to get more students of color interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Click the video at this link: https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/in-the-news-burks-encourages-students-of-color-to-join-stem-fields/
Burks is a science learning specialist with TRIO Programs and an instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her work developing a summer research internship program for first-year Huskers was featured in Nebraska Today in August. Read more about that project here.