Via the Office of Research and Economic Development
Maital Neta and Timothy Nelson, psychology, and Chi Zhang, biological sciences, received pilot awards from the Great Plains IDeA-Clinical and Translational Research Network. The program, part of a National Institutes of Health/National Institutes of General Medical Sciences grant, provides up to $50,000 to fund initial research efforts that demonstrate promise to advance health in the region. Neta is working to identify a reliable biological marker of sports-related concussions in adolescents and young adults. Nelson is studying the link between executive control, obesity risk and behavioral health problems. Zhang aims to improve outcomes for pancreatic cancer patients by developing a mathematical model that could better predict tumors’ response to treatment.
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Marilyne Stains, chemistry, received a 2019 Rising Star Award from the American Chemical Society Women Chemists Committee. The national award recognizes exceptional early- to mid-career women chemists from all areas of chemistry and is aimed at promoting the retention of women in science. Stains will present her research at the ACS National Meeting and Expo, March 31-April 4 in Orlando.
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Lisa Kort-Butler, sociology, was elected to serve as Nebraska state director for the Midwest Sociological Society, a 1,300-member professional association for sociologists and students across nine states in the Midwest. During her three-year term, she will serve on the board of directors, providing a voice for sociologists from Nebraska.
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Chigozie Obioma, English, contributed an essay to “The Good Immigrant USA,” a collection of works by U.S.-based writers who are first- and second-generation immigrants. The book, focused on the immigrant experience in an increasingly divided America, is a follow-up to 2016’s “The Good Immigrant,” a crowd-funded, award-winning collection of essays on race and immigration published in Britain. The U.S. version has been selected by The Guardian as a must-read book of 2019. Obioma’s contribution focuses on how a proverb of the Igbo, an ethnic group living in southeastern Nigeria, helped guide his journey from Nigeria to America. Obioma delves further into the Igbo culture and worldview in his recently published second novel, “An Orchestra of Minorities,” which tells the story of a poultry farmer in Nigeria pursuing a woman from a wealthy family.
Funding
Bureau of Sociological Research
- L. Witt-Swanson, N. Gohring
- $763,962
- Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services
- 2019 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, Adult Tobacco Survey and Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System
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Center for Science, Mathematics and Computer Education
- W. Smith, L. Augustyn, R. Funk
- $392,264
- National Science Foundation
- Persistence, Effectiveness and Retention Studies in STEM Teaching
Patents
Memory Device Based on Heterostructures of Ferroelectric and Two-dimensional Matter
- Alexander Sinitskii, Alexey Lipatov, Alexei Gruverman
- Patent 10,163,932
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Unipolar Magnetoelectric Magnetic Tunnel Junction
- Andrew Marshall, Peter Dowben, Nishtha Sharma
- Patent 10,177,303
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Optical Sensing and Separation Based on Ordered Three-dimensional Nanostructured Surfaces
- Andrea Holmes, Mathias Schubert, Patrick Dussault, Tino Hofmann, Daniel Schmidt, Rebecca Lai
- Patent 10,190,978
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Polymer on Graphene
- Jody Redepenning, Alexander Sinitskii, Benjamin Wymore
- Patent 10,192,971
