Awards, honors and publications

Awards, honors & publications
Awards, honors & publications

Recent accomplishments earned by members of the campus community include faculty/staff Jenny Dauer, Jamilynn Poletto and Dave Wedin, along with students Jazmin Castillo and Rachel Neisius.

Research Development Fellows Program
Jenny Dauer, science literacy professor at SNR, and Jamilynn Poletto, fish biologist with SNR, have been selected to participate in the 2016-2017 Research Development Fellows Program.

The program is an Office of Research and Economic Development initiative designed to provide the knowledge and experience early career faculty need to successfully pursue competitive grant funding. Through the RDFP, fellows gain access to the information and resources they need to develop and submit grant proposals to external funding agencies. The year-long program is composed of two primary components: Learning activities and consultation.

“With almost 40 applicants, competition for acceptance into this year’s program was fierce,” said Nathan Meier, assistant vice chancellor for research. “We are pleased to announce that this year’s cohort is the most diverse and multi-disciplinary group to date, involving 20 faculty members representing the College of Architecture, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Business Administration, College of Education and Human Sciences, College of Engineering, and the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.”

RED Talk

Jazmin Castillo, senior fisheries and wildlife major, has earned a spot presenting her research on hyenas at the inaugural RED talk, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016, at the Learning Commons, Love Library (Main), 13th & R Streets.

Castillo, who has collected data for her research on annual summer trips to Botswana, will have eight minutes to present her research and take questions. RED Talk’s presentation theme is “The BIG Questions” and is open to undergraduate students from all fields and disciplines.

Cabela’s Apprenticeship
Rachel Neisius, senior fisheries and wildlife major, has earned a Cabela’s Apprenticeship. The Cabela’s Apprentice program is aimed at providing financial support to help students gain experience in their chosen professional discipline. For her apprenticeship, Neisius will be working with professors Drew Tyre and Dennis Ferraro on the natural resources curriculum for the annual FFA spring convention at the university.

Nine-Mile Prairie research featured in magazine

Nine-Mile Prairie served as one of 20 test properties for Lisa Durso, research microbiologist with the USDA, who was completing research on antibiotic resistance in Nebraska prairies with the help of SNR’s Dave Wedin and three others. Wedin is Nine-Mile Prairie director and SNR professor and was second author on the study.

Their work was featured in AgResearch Magazine in September in the article “Prairie Yield Clues for Antibiotic Resistance;” read it here: https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2016/sep/prairies/. The study originally was published in March in the Journal of Environmental Quality.

Nine-Mile Prairie was selected as a research site because it is a protected prairie site, untouched and ungrazed. It served as a baseline for Durso, who was looking for antibiotic resistance in the soil and found it naturally there as well as in other protected soils. The types and quantities found were compared to those collected on agriculture properties in the study.

“Since over 90 percent of the land mass in Nebraska is agricultural, these prairie data have the potential to help sort out the role of human and agricultural inputs in contributing to resistance,” Durso wrote in announcing the article.

More details at: http://snr.unl.edu