Learning New Things

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Learning New Things

• Greetings from
• the Faculty of UNL

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• Willa Cather is among the most well know of
  Nebraskas writers, and her writings are studied
  widely by scholars.
• Among her best known works are
• O Pioneers and My Antonia.

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English

• Susan Rosowski studies the works of
• Willa Cather.

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• The genetic material of cells is contained in
  chromosomes.
• Only recently has it been noticed that the
  patterns of information are similar for the
  chromosomes of a single species, but that the
  patterns are different between species.

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Electrical Engineering

• Khalid Sayoods principal interest is in the
  search of patterns in data.

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• Omega-3 fatty acids protect against a variety of
  diseases.
• Many people are using dietary supplements of
  Omega-3 substances.

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Animal Science

• Sheila Scheideler developed a complete management
  program to economically produce Omega Eggs.

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• The chlorella virus lives in a single celled
  paramecium host. This virus has many unusual
  characteristics, not the least of which is that
  it seems to have more genetic information than
  other viruses.
• Chloroviruses have been found in freshwater
  sources throughout the world, and many
  genetically distinct isolates usually can be
  found within the same sample.

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Plant Pathology

• Jim van Etten has studied chloroviruses, and
  recently was elected as a Fellow of the National
  Academy of Science.

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• When students have difficulty in school, getting
  parents and teachers on the same page to address
  those problems can be a challenge.
• UNL has established a major program to facilitate
  work in this area.

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Educational Psychology

• Sue Sheridan heads up the program that studies
  ways to enhance parent/teacher consultations.

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• The Lewis and Clark expedition was commissioned
  in 1803 by President Jefferson, and their many
  successes stand as a hallmark to exploration even
  today.

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History

• Gary Moulton has edited a 13 volume series on the
  Lewis Clark expeditions.

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• Vitamin B-12 plays an important role in a variety
  of important biochemical processes.
• Vitamin B-12 contains cobalt, a trace metal found
  in living organisms.

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Biochemistry

• Ruma Banerjee heads up a center that studies
  biochemical electron transfers, and much of her
  work focuses on B-12 enzymes.

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• Animals figure out how to survive in their
  environments.
• How do animals use their cognitive abilities to
  solve foraging problems?

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Biological Sciences

• Alan Kamil has studied this problem, often
  focusing on the foraging behaviors of birds.

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• The oxides of certain metals like chromium and
  molybdenum are important for their catalytic and
  materials surface properties.
• Studying surfaces, however, is very difficult and
  requires unique and sophisticated tools.

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Chemistry

• Marjorie Langell studies the surfaces of single
  crystals of metal oxide materials.

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• The World Wide Web has changed our ability to
  deliver instruction, and teachers can now work
  with students who they never meet in person or
  have in a classroom.
• How can Web-teaching be made more effective?

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Teaching, Learning, Teacher Education

• David Brooks has studied this problem, and works
  mostly with high school chemistry teachers.

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• When you come to a university, you have a chance
  to work on exciting problems like these.
• You also can write, create art and music, study
  religion, learn other languages ---
• You can study nearly anything worth studying.

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• If you choose to come to UNL, you can study with
  hundreds of teachers working on the kinds of
  problems Ive just described.
• These are exciting times.
• UNL is an exciting place.

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Questions?