Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
29
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Art
Description : Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar are artists in residence this fall at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and will speak about their practice as part of the Willson Memorial Lecture Series. They founded the TUG collective to focus upon interdisciplinary research, new forms of contemporary social practice, and participatory, problem-based interventions that tackle the cultural politics of contemporary border regions in North America. While in Omaha, they will be working on a project involving Columbia, a common allegorical figure for the Americas. Gaelyn Aguilar is Associate Professor of Anthropology, and Gustavo Aguilar is Associate Professor of Experimental Performance, both serving as faculty at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
104
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Refugees, Literacy
Description : With the support of Humanities Nebraska, the UNO Islamic Studies Program and Sustained Dialogue are organizing a lecture by and follow-up discussion with Dr. Junaid Rana, associate professor of Asian American Studies at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. Junaid Rana is the author of Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora (Duke, 2011), winner of the 2013 Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in the Social Sciences. He is co-founding editor of the Muslim International book series with the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently working on a book that describes life in a Pakistani neighborhood in Brooklyn since 9/11. .
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 100
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Gardens/Plantlife, Gerontology
Description : Traditional NAMS 4920 Arts and Science Native Horticulture
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
18
Topics:
Refugees, Inclusion, Diversity & Equity
Description : The UNO School of Public Administration invites you to the 2nd public forum on the NGO/Nonprofit Response to the Refugee Crisis. The Panel of Experts Includes: Amelia Rosser, Former Interim Assistant Director of Refugee Empowerment Center; Current MPA Student; Dekow Sagar, Program Coordinator; International Center of the Heartland, Lutheran Family Services of Nebraska, Inc. Veronica Hill, Program Coordinator and ESL/Migrant Teacher Trainer Yates Educational Community Partnership (ECP), Omaha Public Schools. Facilitated by: Dr. Hans Louis-Charles, Assistant Professor Emergency Services Program, School of Public Administration. ADDITIONAL PARTNERS: Listed above
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:
23
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture
Description : The Schwalb Center for Israel & Jewish Studies and Partnership2Gether are pleased to host Dr. Haim Sperber from Western Galilee College to give a presentation on Jewish philanthropy in the 19th & 20th Centuries. This event is free and open to the public.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 1
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
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:
18
Topics:
Other
Description : Volunteers will sort and organize donations and assemble program documents.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
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:
1
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture
Description : Volunteers will be preparing and cooking baked goods to be distributed in the community.
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:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Citizenship, Youth Programming, Theatre and Cinema
Description : Anna Monardo served as a parent volunteer for for the Brownell Talbot School Theatre Program, assisting with various tasks.
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.