Heather Richards-Rissetto, anthropology, discussed 3D visualization and her project “A 3D Exploration of Vision, Sound and Movement in the Ancient Maya City of Copán” for a May 8 article on the National Endowment for the Humanities website.
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Deirdre Cooper Owens, history, director of the Humanities in Medicine program, was the featured guest May 16 on the “Our Common Ground” program on Blog Talk Radio. She discussed minority health disparities and how black America is responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Kevin Smith, political science, was interviewed for a May 19 Washington Examiner article on the possible importance of Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district in deciding the 2020 presidential race. "The scenario ... where the split electoral votes in Maine and Nebraska could play a deciding role in determining who wins is far from unrealistic," he said.
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For their senior capstone project, a group of Husker computer science and engineering students collaborated with the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute on a virtual reality game designed to help children with cerebral palsy. Cerebral Palsy News Today published a May 20 article on the project.
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A. Kelly Lane, biological sciences, has co-authored a new study titled “Undergraduate Student Concerns in Introductory STEM Courses: What They Are, How They Change and What Influences Them.” The Cornell Chronicle published a May 20 article on the study.
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Chigozie Obioma’s novels “The Fishermen” and “An Orchestra of Minorities” were highlighted in a May 24 Quartz column by Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo on teaching Afrodiasporic literature. Obioma is an associate professor of English at Nebraska.
