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According to the news – The extension of University of Nebraska-Lincoln will use the amount of $4.1 million federal grant to seek on how to decrease greenhouse gas emissions at the same time protecting America’s capacity to produce eggs, meat, milk and other animal products.
National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant will give funding to a five year project that will focus on animal agriculture issue and climate change. There are actually five other land-grant universities that will partner in the project. The facilitator is University of Nebraska-Lincoln Livestock and Poultry Environmental Learning Center.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension engineer and the project’s director Rick Stowell said that A wide range of beliefs exist about climate change, and there are strong and varied reactions to proposals for countering global warming, which creates challenges for those involved in agricultural policymaking, product marketing and research.
According to the news – One of the graduate students of University of Nebraska Lincoln won the university’s ninth 2011 Fulbright Scholarship.
University of Nebraska Lincoln Fellowship Adviser Laura Damuth said that the university is doing a great job in educating its undergraduates. She said that last year, University of Nebraska Lincoln also won six Fullbrights but the number for this year is really noteworthy.
She gives credit to the students of University of Nebraska Lincoln for the increase of Fullbright applications. She also added that the University also made a gives effort identifying possible applicants and support the students through the entire process of the application.
In September, the new UNL Fullbright winner Anita Middleton will go to Russia to become an English teaching assistant. She also plans to help in an orphanage or child care center.
According to the news – This fall University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health will now offer two completely new specialized certificates in public health. The certificates are already approved by University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
M.B.B.Ch., M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health Ayman El-Mohandes said that one year program in COPC, which known as community oriented primary care and maternal and child health will bolster Nebraska’s public health workforce expertise level.
COPC program is the second in the US. It actually bridges individual clinical care and public health that focus in the community. It will give health professionals and student new learning, tools and skills to boost public health practice in the community orientation of health services.
,M.D., M.P.H., professor in the department of health promotion, social and behavioral health and leader of the program, Jaime Gofin said that the certificate helps broaden skills and shift attitudes toward providing integrated care in Nebraska’s communities.
Dr. El-Mohandes said that the certificate in maternal and child health was developed because of a need expressed from the health professional workforce in Nebraska.
According to the news – University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing has a new acting dean effective this July 1. The new acting dean is Janet Cuddigan, Ph.D. because the dean of the University Of Nebraska Medical Center College Of Nursing Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc, who worked nearly eight years as the dean, will retire on June 30.
UNMC chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D. said that Dr. Cuddigan was recommended by Dr. Tilden for the acting deanship. He also added that she has been on the faculty for over 15 years and has considerable experience and expertise that will be essential during her tenure as acting dean. He is fully confident that she will do an exceptional job during this interim period to advance the College of Nursing agenda.
Janet Cuddigan, Ph.D. will lead the college until a national search for the replacement of Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc is already completed.