The Nebraska Summit on Math and Science Education welcomed 125 attendees on June 3-4, 2022. Attendees were composed of science and mathematics teachers, district curriculum coordinators, NDE curriculum specialists, and University of Nebraska faculty who hailed from one end of the state to the other. Continue reading…
Fellowships are still available for GEOS 898 - Weather, Climate and Climate Change, July 11-22, through UNL’s Nebraska Math and Science Summer Institutes (NMSSI). This course has been highly popular for the past few years, with both math and science teachers! Continue reading…
In the article "Americans Are Missing a Key Stratum of Modern Knowledge" for The Atlantic on May 5, UNL's Dr. Beth Lewis was interviewed by Kendra Pierre-Louis about the connection between climate change and earth science education. Continue reading…
Can a girl living in a rural village grow up to use science to promote global progress in health, economics and agriculture? Georgina Bingham’s life story shows that the answer is yes. Bingham, a research associate professor with the Department of Entomology, grew up in a village of only 90 people. Continue reading…
An article published May 20 in Nature Digital Medicine provides a step-by-step plan for an international effort to create a digital twin of the human immune system. Continue reading…
Nicole Iverson’s groundbreaking research into using carbon nanotubes as disease sensors has received a boost from the National Science Foundation. The assistant professor of biological systems engineering has received a five-year, $550,000 grant from the Faculty Early Career Development Program. Continue reading…
During a press conference hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation with the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration in Washington, D.C. today, astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Continue reading…
NITARP, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program, gets teachers involved in authentic astronomical research. They partner small groups of educators with a mentor professional astronomer for an original research project. Continue reading…
You have a date with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope! On July 12, the first full color images and spectroscopic data from the world's most powerful observatory will be revealed. Continue reading…
Created by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration, Infiniscope invites educators to learn how to create virtual field trips that provide student agency, increase equity, and make place-based education accessible to all learners. Continue reading…