Awards, Honors and Recognitions
Dawn O. Braithwaite, communication studies, will receive the Samuel L. Becker Distinguished Service Award at the National Communication Association’s annual convention Nov. 16-19 in Dallas. The honor recognizes outstanding service to the association and profession through research, teaching or service.
David Hansen, psychology, leads the Child Maltreatment Lab, which the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies selected as its inaugural featured lab. Hansen’s group explores maltreatment issues including sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect.
Casey Kelly, communication studies, received the National Communication Association’s Early Career Award from the Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division, which honors an association member who established an innovative and robust research project within eight years of earning a doctorate.
Katherine Walter, co-director of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, represented CDRH at the United States Capitol Historical Society’s 2017 Freedom Award presentation last month. The center was one of five nationally renowned programs invited to participate.
Publishing Awards
Jonis Agee, English, is author of The Bones of Paradise, which has been chosen as the Omaha Public Library’s 2017 Omaha Reads pick. The annual program focuses on one book that Omaha residents read together. Finalists are chosen via write-in suggestions, and the winner is selected by public vote.
Dawn O. Braithwaite, communication studies, received the Gerald R. Miller Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Interpersonal Communication Division. The honor recognizes the second edition of Braithwaite’s book, Engaging Theories in Interpersonal Communication: Multiple Perspectives, published in 2015.
Top Sponsored Programs
All arts and humanities grants of $10,000 or more and all other grants of $200,000 or more awarded to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln between Aug. 18, 2017, and Sept. 15, 2017, as reported through NUgrant. Our areas in bold.
Center for Great Plains Studies
R. Edwards
- $101,504
- Department of the Interior-National Park Service
- African American Homesteaders Historic Resource Study
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture/Department of Mathematics/School of Biological Sciences/West Central Research and Extension Center
J. Lindquist, A. Jhala, B. Sigmon, B. Tenhumberg, R. Werle, M. Yerka
- $499,998
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- A Risk-assessment Model and Population Genomics Tools for Monitoring Herbicide-resistance Evolution in Weedy Sorghum
Department of Biological Systems Engineering/Department of Sociology
L. Odhiambo, K. Olson
- $453,539
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Reconfiguring Farmers’ Behavior to Reduce Irrigation Water Use through Water Measurements and Social Norms Interventions: A Case Study in the Republican River Basin
Department of Chemistry
J. Takacs
- $900,114
- National Institutes of Health
- Catalytic Asymmetric Hydroboration: Uncapping the Potential with Two-point Binding Substrates
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
B. Bockelman
- $204,043
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- CICI: CE: SciTokens: Capability-based Secure Access to Remote Scientific Data
M. Cohen
- $299,371
- National Science Foundation
- EAGER: Bio-inspired Assurance and Regression Testing to Secure Organic Programs
Department of Physics and Astronomy
S. Adenwalla
- $203,959
- National Science Foundation
- Resource and Repository II: Extensions and Improvements to Funsize Physics
D. Sellmyer, X. Xu
- $461,155
- National Science Foundation
- DMREF: SusChEM: Design and Synthesis of Novel Magnetic Materials
Department of Physics and Astronomy/Department of Chemistry
P. Dowben, C. Binek, A. Sinitskii, E. Tsymbal
- $2,382,282
- National Science Foundation
- E2CDA: Type I: Antiferromagnetic Magneto-electric Memory and Logic
School of Biological Sciences/Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
H. Cerutti, T. Clemente
- $346,108
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Developing Genetic and Genomics Tools for Tetraselmis sp.
Pulled from the Office of Research's Accolades and Top Sponsored Programs news.
