By Undergraduate Research and Fellowships
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 160 Husker undergraduates (8 students with SNR majors) to participate in research with a faculty mentor during the fall and spring semesters.
Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $3,600 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 10 hours per week. The students’ projects span academic disciplines including engineering, chemistry, modern languages and literatures, psychology, art and art history, architecture, special education, and fisheries and wildlife.
UCARE participants will present posters on their research and creative activities during Student Research Days, April 7 and 8, at the Nebraska Union.
Applications for the 2026-27 UCARE program open Nov. 12, with a deadline of Feb. 10. For more information and to apply, click here.
Following is a list of students by hometown who received 2025-26 UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title.
Nebraska
Aurora
--Sarah Springer, junior, fisheries and wildlife, “Investigating the Chemosensory Cues by the Bullsnake Pituophis catenifer for Prey Search and Acquisition.”
Bellevue
--Josh Bugay, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “Analyzing Pronghorn Movements in Western Nebraska in Response to Extreme Winter Weather Conditions.”
--Ava McQuillen, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “Conservation Genomics of a Small, Isolated Population of Velvet Scoters.”
Lincoln
--Chris Paladino, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “The Effects of Gut Health on Thermal Resilience in the Critically Endangered Pallid Sturgeon.”
Omaha
--Emily Deming, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “Investigating the Effect of Substrate Types on the Incubation of Bullsnake (Pituophis catenifer) Eggs.”
--Darian Pierre, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “Disentangling the Factors that Affect Diurnal Body Temperature Fluctuation of Birds in the Wild.”
Osmond
--Kaden Polt, senior, fisheries and wildlife, “Managing Rangeland for Heterogeneity Promotes Species Richness and Benefits Small Mammals.”
Kansas
Topeka
--Anna Newcome, senior, environmental science and plant biology, “Integrating Genomic Traits from Wild Diploid Strawberries to Improve Decaploid Strawberry Cultivars Through Polyploidization.”
To see the full list of students awarded stipend go to https://news.unl.edu/article/160-husker-undergrads-receive-stipends-for-research-projects