By TODD GOTTULA UNK Communications KEARNEY – Kim Carlson has had the same Thanksgiving tradition for as long as she can remember. Drive to her hometown of Scribner, eat lunch at her dad’s house on Sixth Street and “act silly and do things I normally wouldn’t do unless my siblings are around,” said the UNK biology professor. The second oldest of seven children, Carlson spends Thanksgiving with her dad Des Smith, four brothers, three sisters, nieces and nephews – 31 people … [Read more...] about Kim Carlson: ‘I’m most thankful for’ Crock-Pot mashed potatoes, grandma Vicki, Def Leppard
Julie Shaffer
Twigg, Shaffer involved with $20 million crop productivity research
Two University of Nebraska at Kearney faculty are among those leading a million Nebraska-based research effort to improve crop productivity. Led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and funded by the National Science Foundation's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, the program includes scientists from UNL, UNK, University of Nebraska Medical Center and Doane University working on the new Center for Root and Rhizobiome Innovation. UNK … [Read more...] about Twigg, Shaffer involved with $20 million crop productivity research
Julie Shaffer presented Holt distinguished faculty award
By TODD GOTTULA UNK Communications KEARNEY – University of Nebraska at Kearney biology professor Julie Shaffer was presented the 2014 Leland Holdt/Security Mutual Life Distinguished Faculty Award during winter commencement ceremonies Friday. Shaffer joined the UNK faculty in 1999 and is a previous recipient of the Pratt-Heins Faculty Award for Teaching. “Her teaching evaluation summary scores are consistently top-level and are accompanied by many comments regarding … [Read more...] about Julie Shaffer presented Holt distinguished faculty award
Water for Food Institute announces student, postdoctoral fellow support grants
Two University of Nebraska at Kearney faculty have been awarded grants from the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska to provide stipends to students and postdoctoral fellows working on projects that contribute to a more water- and food-secure world. The grants program, in its inaugural year, supports faculty research while enriching the education of students who will one day be scientific leaders in the effort to feed the world’s … [Read more...] about Water for Food Institute announces student, postdoctoral fellow support grants
JULIE SHAFFER – Unlocking Lakes
By Kelly Bartling UNK Communications The Old Wives’ Tale is that if you leave a fencepost in a Sandhills soda lake it will be gone by next year. Many of these small, shallow, alkaline-saline lakes in Garden and Sheridan counties seem something like from a science fiction movie – not molten and bubbling, but nevertheless extreme. These environments – where no vertebrate species survive – have the attention of microbiologist Julie Shaffer, whose research over the last … [Read more...] about JULIE SHAFFER – Unlocking Lakes
