Rodger Bybee, a long-time researcher and advocate for improving science instruction, will explore strategies for fostering children’s science literacy during a Feb. 19 presentation co-sponsored by CYFS.
As part of the Agricultural Research Division’s Big Idea Seminar Series, Bybee will present “Building Science Literacy through Engagement in Community and Environmental Stewardship” from 3-4:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union on UNL’s City Campus.
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has announced a new fellowship program for faculty in UNL’s College of Education and Human Sciences.
Created for associate and full professors or research professors, the CYFS Research Fellowship Program will give faculty who have made measurable progress on a dedicated program of research – yet need additional time and support to expand the depth and breadth of that research – one year of in-house professional leave. Fellows will receive a one-course buy-out for each of two consecutive semesters.
A new Journal of School Psychology article co-authored by CYFS faculty affiliates suggests that conflict between temperamentally demanding elementary students and their teachers may predict later tension between those students and their classmates.
CYFS faculty affiliate Tonia Durden, assistant professor of child, youth and family studies at UNL, has received the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2013 Early Achievement Award for helping communities support the healthy development of young children.
It’s everywhere – provided you know where to find it.
Years of research have taught CYFS faculty affiliate Rochelle Dalla that the lesson applies both to the shadowy practice of human trafficking and the scattered information surrounding it.
Dalla will aim to assemble research and foster discourse on the issue by founding the recently approved Journal of Human Trafficking, which she cited as the first of its kind.
The Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools has announced its 2013-2014 CYFS Conversation Series, a set of five sessions dedicated to helping the center’s faculty affiliates address the many issues that arise when coordinating and conducting research studies.
Nine doctoral student affiliates of the Nebraska Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families and Schools received recognition for their research at the 2013 Rural Futures Conference, earning multiple graduate student poster awards presented Nov. 5 in Lincoln, Neb.
CYFS faculty affiliate Nancy Engen-Wedin has received the Friend of American Indian Education Award from the Nebraska Department of Education.
Engen-Wedin, coordinator of the Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program (ROOTS) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was honored at the NDE’s Native American Student Achievement Symposium in October.