At the University of Nebraska at Kearney

A “student-centered” attitude remains at the heart of our campus culture. Along with its legacy of strong teaching and service, UNK builds on and promotes a solid tradition of research. UNK’s strength lies in combining teaching and research into innovative academic experiences. Faculty...

Business $ense

In a tough global economy, when more layoffs seem to be announced every day, people around the world are questioning the way they do business. Especially for those thinking about starting their own companies, the answers may never have been more important.What makes one business succeed, while another...

The Word on the Street

That morning, like the many mornings before, Kurt Borchard pulled on jeans, an old T-shirt and a worn out, eight-year-old coat before boarding a city bus to the homeless corridor in northern Las Vegas. Tucked inside his coat pockets were a notepad, pen, mini-tape recorder, spare tapes and batteries,...

The Sandburg Project

UNK’s Benzel Gives “New” Song to Prairie Poet’s Work. An award-winning researcher, accustomed to publishing her work in books and prestigious academic journals that can be found on the shelves of major libraries across the nation, has found herself in a place far outside her...

Printing Peace

Printmaking: is it an art, or is it a science? It’s a common debate in academia and the arts communities, but a debate that international-award winning printmaker Victoria Goro-Rapoport is at peace about, because she lives and works the answer to that question every day in her studio and classroom...

Fruitful Research

Dr. Kim Carlson could be the poster child for UNK’s trend-setting research program. Her story of the journey that has brought her full-circle to her dream job—a tenured UNK associate professor of biology—is an example of the value of the program, in perfect form.Dr. Carlson completed...

A Classroom Opportunity

Research at UNK is not only beneficial for the data that is compiled; it also allows students a chance to be part of something they might not otherwise be able to experience. Biology senior Amanda Calleroz has worked with Dr. Carlson’s patented gene, OTK18, to gain information which could lead...

Keeping the Boy in Boyhood

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, commonly known as “ADHD,” has become widely-accepted as a serious mental disorder—mostly afflicting young males. At the very least, the experts say, ADHD disrupts the learning processes, and at worst, produces violent and anti-social behavior...

Playing your way to fitness

Can Nintendo’s Wii prevent or reduce obesity?What, if any, are the health benefits of playing Nintendo Wii?Dr. Greg Brown’s passion for research is fed by these and other questions that he and his students have about one of the newest phenomena of the computer age—the Wii. “I...

A Classroom Opportunity

For exercise science senior Jessica McWha, university-level research can really be fun and games. Working alongside Dr. Greg Brown, she was surprised to learn the results in her research—“Energy Expenditure While Playing Nintendo Wii: Boxing. Against a Computer vs. a Human Opponent&rdquo...

Long Distance Bridge Builder

Dr. Joan Lewis is ready to begin her night class, and she is the only one in the room. She opens the course’s Blackboard site. In a monitor on the far wall, she sees that her student in Omaha has arrived. She opens a virtual chat, and quickly the classroom fills—not with bodies, but with...

About New Frontiers

New Frontiers 2009-2010 is published by the Office of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. This publication is designed to highlight research, scholarship, and creative activity in and across disciplines. The use of trade names in the articles does not imply endorsement...