Brian Bornstein, professor of psychology and director of the Law-Psychology Program, has been selected as a program officer for the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Sciences Program. His appointment will begin in January 2018.
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Gwendolyn Foster, professor of English, has been selected to screen her film, “Sleeping with the Fishes,” at the Studio 44 Short Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden, Aug. 15-20. Films featured in the festival, which is hosted by the Stockholm Culture Festival, are screened by invitation only. The festival is a wide-ranging event and includes animation, narrative, documentary, experimental video/film, feminist, queer and anti-racist films. Only 40 films by video artists in 15 countries were selected to participate. “Sleeping with the Fishes” is a surrealist collage in honor of Luis Buñuel and André Breton. Watch Foster’s video here.
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Jessica Hovoty and Tiffany Truong were named winners of the 2017 Richard Holland Future Scientist Award from the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures at the Institutional Development Award Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence Program conference Aug. 8 in Nebraska City. Hovoty, a microbiology major, received third place for her oral presentation and Truong, a biochemistry major, received honorable mention for her poster presentation.
Students were judged on oral and poster presentations summarizing their summer research work conducted as scholars of the INBRE program. The student scholars are selected for the two-year training program, which is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health and is designed to prepare students for graduate school.
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Jayden Barth, a sociology major, and Julia McQuillan, professor and chair of the department of sociology, will give talks at the TEDx Youth@Lincoln event Saturday.
