11 programs at Nebraska were also named best in the state for non-traditional students by College Factual. The honored programs include anthropology, biochemistry, biological sciences, chemistry, English, geology, history, mathematics, political science, psychology and sociology.
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Jordan Stump, professor of French (modern languages and literatures), was recently featured in The New York Times' 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years for his translation of Scholastique Mukasonga's memoir "Cockroaches." In the novel, Mukasonga recalls her experience as a child during the Rwandan genocide.
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Sidnie White Crawford, professor emerita of classics and religious studies, published her new book "Scribes and Scrolls at Qumran" July 2. The novel explores the relationship between the caves the Dead Sea Scrolls were found in and and the nearby settlement of Khirbet Qumran.
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Katarzyna Glowacka, assistant professor of biochemistry, is part of a research team that has published a paper on a new computer model that evaluates how microscopic pores on leaves may open in response to light. The paper, featured in a special edition of Photosynthesis Research, outlines an advance that could help scientists create virtual plants to predict how higher temperatures and rising levels of carbon dioxide will affect food crops. The work was completed with colleagues at the University of Illinois and University of Cambridge.
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Elsa Knight, alumna of classics and religious studies and an incoming first-year student in the College of Law, recently served as the Nebraska representative at the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship College Congress. Knight represented the state for two weeks in both Kentucky and Washington D.C. and helped create policy over U.S.-Russia relations, specifically nuclear proliferation.
