Humanities
Highlights
- Using award-winning, innovative animation to bring insight to stories of American slavery
- Marathon readings of Homer
- Creating digital archives for Willa Cather, Walt Whitman, and Civil War Washington
- Writing bestselling novels, such as Chigozie Obioma's The Fishermen and Joy Castro's Flight Risk
Sciences
Highlights
- Finding a cure for HIV and the Zika virus
- A lifelong flu shot
- The enduring effects of concussions
- Innovative ways of sharing science, such as Science Slam
- Filtering salt from seawater wth nanotubes
- Radiation exposure drugs
- Putting circuitry on curved surfaces
Social Sciences
Highlights
- Canine cognition
- Religious affiliation
- How biology is tied to political views
- Preventing and treating rural drug use
- Digitizing the ruins of ancient cultures
- How families communicate
Interdisciplinary
Highlights
- A conference and colloquia series for scholarly presentations on gender
- Waste audits for local K-12 schools leading to composting programs
- Developing Earth Day and Green Apply Day of Service projects with Lincoln Public Schools
- Publishing books on research about African-American, Native American, and Latino-American culture
- Staging a reading of an original play about Elizabeth I with students