by Fran tenBensel Benne | Agronomy and Horticulture
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 129 Husker undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor this summer. Among those students are two plant biology majors from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture — Grant Nielson and Hannah Spiehs.
Nielson, from Archer, Nebraska, is a junior and will be mentored by Saet-Byul Kim from the Department of Plant Pathology. Spiehs, also a junior from Aurora, Nebraska, will be mentored by Nic McMillan in the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture.
Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,640 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 20 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.
Students from the Nebraska Summer Research Program and UCARE will present posters on their research and creative activities at a campus research symposium Aug. 5 in the Nebraska Union. For more information on undergraduate research at Nebraska, visit https://ucare.unl.edu.
See the full university list at Nebraska Today.
Nebraska Today and the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture contributed to this report.
More details at: https://go.unl.edu/sjvt