UNK Faculty Researchers Cross Disciplines, Create Scholarly Campus Environment

Many of the advances that have made our lives more stable, productive, and enjoyable originated in university research. Each one of us has the desire to become better, to move forward—and active investigation, understanding, and applying new information are the elements of that advancement. Public...

Harnessing the Power of the Sun Efficiently

Not long ago, long-term U.S. energy challenges were masked by low cost gasoline and electricity. When pump prices hit $3.50 per gallon and electricity costs increased, attention focused in earnest on long-term sustainable, environmentally friendly and politically viable alternatives.For decades, researchers...

A Classroom Opportunity

Students working on the solar cell pro-ject have gained experience in UV-vis, infrared and Raman spectroscopy as well as spectroscopic ellipsometry.The concept of students being involved in research is not new in the chemistry de-partment. In fact, several students in the chemistry department have been...

Crossing Disciplines

If the mark of a good researcher is follow-ing research results anywhere that the data leads, consider one University of Nebraska at Kearney professor a master at pursuing the truth.Dr. Sri Seshadri, a professor in the UNK Marketing and Management Department, has research interests that reflect a scholar...

Reclaiming the Lives of Forgotten Women of the American West

Researcher Dr. Susanne George Bloomfield has a story to tell. To be more precise, three stories. Dr. Bloomfield is not only Distinguished Martin Professor of English at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, but an outstanding historical biographer, penning three books about women writers who lived...

Teaching and Scholarhip in Harmony at UNK

For Dr. Valerie Cisler, her professional career has never been about making a choice between teaching and research.“To me, it’s all one. It’s all related. It’s the same goal,” said the professor and chair of the Department of Music and Performing Arts, University of Nebraska...

Saving a Student From Giving Up Music

“In 1999, I not only graduated with a B.A. in music education, I was also the first student to complete the Piano Pedagogy program,” Wright said. “The program dev-eloped my knowledge in teaching piano and has helped me become a qualified piano teacher.”Earlier in her career,...

An Epidemic of Hearing Loss

From a distance, a tractor working a wide prairie field is a bucolic scene of country life. Closer, inside the vehicle’s cab, is some thing else—a deafening whirl of machinery and engine noises.When Dr. Kenya Taylor, dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Nebraska at...

Walking Toward the Wellness Campus

Old black and white movies about collegiate life show trim and healthy students, books in hand, strolling on tree-shaded pathways. Today’s images reveal something different—not- so-slim drivers competing for parking places next to their lecture halls.One University of Nebraska at Kearney...

Obesity, a Growing Trend and Threat

How bad is America’s obesity problem?Approximately 30 percent of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight and 15.3 per-cent are obese, according to Centers for Disease Control statistics. For adolescents ages 12 to 19, 30.4 percent are overweight and 15.5 percent are obese.The adverse health effects...