Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
441
Topics:
Capacity Building, Organ and Blood Donation
Description : This educational forum brings together scholars, students, and community members to engage in meaningful dialogue on how, when, and why governments and ordinary people supported, complied with, ignored, or resisted targeted oppression and racial violence in different historical contexts. By exploring emerging research on the representation of historical persecution and violence, this educational forum seeks to examine the lasting impact of racism for communities in different historical contexts. This program is part of a wider outreach initiative to bring Holocaust studies into conversation with ethnic studies in the North American academy. This program is co-organized by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Sam and Frances Fried Holocaust and Genocide Academy in conjunction with the University of Nebraska Omaha.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 150
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
24
Topics:
Description : Better understand your social network through these hands-on workshops. Social media beginners and savvy users alike will benefit from hearing Dr. Marc Smith, of Connected Action, explain the value of a connection-focused perspective and provide easy-to-follow guidance on how to analyze a social network. Network approaches can highlight patterns and reveal missing pieces, triggering a creative spark or a breakthrough idea. All workshops are free and open to the public. Attendees should plan to participate in an introductory session before an advanced workshop. Limited complimentary parking will be available in the lot directly north of the Weitz CEC. UNO undergraduate and graduate students will be able to continue exploring this subject after the workshops by collecting and analyzing creative network data at the UNO Social Media Lab. The Social Media Lab reviewed the involvement on social media, with around 79 people engaged in the activity on Twitter (other platforms were used for people to engage in the activity but no report of those numbers). There were roughly 150 students from 4 different classes.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
34
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare, Capacity Building
Description : Jim Lynch, Ph.D., will be on campus Friday, April 6 to present his latest research in victimization. His talk, entitled "Victimization Research and Data: If You Build It Will They Come?" will take place in Rooms 230/231 in the CEC building. It will start at 10:30 A.M. and run until noon. This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Lynch is a professor and former chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the department, he served as the director of the Bureay of Justice Statistics in the United States Department of Justice. His research focuses on victim surveys, victimization risk, the role of coercion in social control, and crime statistics.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Raise Awareness, Gender Equality
Description : The Nebraska Science Festival invites the public to attend a free panel discussion featuring women successful in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) careers. Panelists will share their life experiences, as well as lessons learned, as they inspire others to consider STEM careers. Panelists are: Deann Akins-Lewenthal, Ph.D., director of food safety and microbiology for Conagra Brands; Lydia Kang M.D., assistant professor of internal medicine at UNMC and author of historical, young adult and non-fiction books including: ""Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything"" (co-authored with Nate Pedersen); Amelia Tangeman, STEM outreach coordinator at the University of Nebraska at Omaha; and Nicole Mitchell, coordinator, the Whitney Young Academy and Project Ready, Urban League of Nebraska.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 18
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
21
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Capacity Building
Description : 18 UNO students interviewed 18 leaders of this unique Omaha organization in an effort to understand their motivations to start and continue to support the Tri-Faith Initiative. Students' presentations will reveal what they learned through research and attendees can learn more about the Tri-Faith Initiative. The Tri-Faith Initiative is made up of a group of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, who have come together as neighbors on one campus, committed to practicing respect, acceptance, and trust. A student project that was part of Dr. Ramazan Kilinc's honors colloquia class titled, HONR 3000 Sacred and Violent.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
40
Topics:
Raise Awareness, History
Description : Scholars James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, of the University of Waterloo, discuss their new book, "Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning and Catalyst." The book takes readers to Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis to experience the dread of nuclear war, a fear Blight and Lang describe as relevant to today. Blight and Lang use their experience to call for nuclear abolition. Presented by the Nebraska State Council for Social Studies. Sponsored by the following UNO Departments: History, Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology, and Political Science. The Nebraska State Council for Social Studies is affiliated with the National Council for the Social Studies.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
63
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Gerontology
Description : The Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies and the UNO Department of Gerontology invite you to join them as they host Dr. Israel Doron from the University of Haifa to speak on aging in Israel and Nebraska. Dr. Doron’s presentation will focus on the similarities and differences between the Israeli and American approaches to successful aging. Various examples from the fields of long-term care, elder guardianship, and social services for older persons will be discussed. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are welcome to this fascinating presentation.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Literacy
Description : OPL Outreach staff attended four classes to discuss The Hate U Give and how to translate the theme(s) into facilitated discussions with UNO students in class with UNO faculty Dr. Panos. The entire class attended the Omaha Reads event with Inclusive Communities at the CEC and eagerly participated in the break-out groups. The event, also an Omaha Table Talk, discusses the parallels between the novel "The Hate U Give" and the realities of today's world and was co-hosted by Inclusive Communities. Each year, Omaha Public Library (OPL) invites the community to vote for and read one book as a way to promote literacy and inspire discussion among Omaha and Douglas County residents.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Literacy
Description : UNO's Teacher Education Department, Library Science Program, collaborated with OPL and Nelson Mandela Elementary School in 2016 to assist in curating the school's library collections.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Literacy, Youth Programming
Description : Each month, OPL provides regular in-house storytimes to the UNO Child Care Center.