Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Summer
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 100
End Semester:
None
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Gardens/Plantlife, Gerontology
Description : Traditional NAMS 4920 Arts and Science Native Horticulture
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 10
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education, Poverty, Transportation, Health Awareness
Description : Claudia created and recorded a presentation for Dr. Dinkel's Motivation for Physical Activity class over Safe Routes to School program which was then used for a presentation for an SLA class. We were able to spread the message about our Safe Routes program and the importance of built environment on wellness and physical activities.Students have a better idea of how built environment leads contributes to inequity in our society as well as a better idea of how it affects our OPS schools
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
11
Topics:
Climate and Sustainability
Description : How can you be a sustainable leader without sustaining your own health and energy? Personal health and sustainability of our mind, body, and spirit are integral to being a sustainability leader. This presentation is not about recycling, energy efficiency, and biking to work—though all important. It introduces biomimicry and teaches a few of nature’s secrets to truly being a sustainable leader—for oneself and for the world. Biomimicry—a practice of discovering and listening to nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies—provides a framework to learn how to thrive in the midst of dynamic change and have a positive impact in our world. How does nature maintain energy in the face of constant change? How does nature adapt to conditions outside of its control? How does nature invest in strategies with the highest impact given an organism or ecosystem’s various needs? These are a few questions nature’s wisdom can answer in our quest for sustainable leadership.
Engagement Type:
Volunteering
Activity Type:
Volunteerism
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 12
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 4
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 17
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 4
Total Number of Other Participants:
75
Topics:
Gardens/Plantlife, Climate and Sustainability
Description : "The Urban Bird & Nature Alliance facilitated the planting of 125 shade trees along the Mandan Park trail on 13th and Missouri Avenue. Community volunteers along with UNO students and interns participated in the event. Bellevue, Creighton and College or St. Mary’s students were also part of the event. The project was an effort to sustain the urban forest along a trail that lost over 68 ash trees. People walk and bike along the trail and need shade. The trees will reduce heat islands as well as improve air quality. Sponsors and funders were the Arbor Day Foundation and the Hubbard Community Forestry Awards. Over 75 families, individuals and students from surrounding schools such as South High and PACE participated. Students, residents and the community at large learns about the importance of the urban forest. They work together to sustain and maintain the tree canopy either in their own neighborhood or park or other neighborhoods and parkland. They learn about the need for trees in barren areas, the infestation of the emerald ash borer on the city ash trees, reducing heat islands, improving air quality and the many benefits of trees. They learn about environmental justice. They also learn how to work together collaboratively to build their own environment which builds on pride of place. Together we leave a legacy of trees behind for ourselves and for future generations.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 5
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 4
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 30
End Academic Year:
2020-21
K-12 Student Hours: 4
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Gardens/Plantlife, Climate and Sustainability
Description : Trendwood Neighborbood and parkland stands to lose 600 ash trees due to the infestation of the emerald ash borer. We received a grant from Target Corporation to plant over 125 shade trees in the wake or understory or the ash trees in an effort to sustain the community forest.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
65
Topics:
Climate and Sustainability
Description : In celebration of Earth Month, the Sustainability Expo is designed to engage students, faculty, and staff about sustainability problems and solutions, ranging from environmental to social justice issues. Over 20 sustainability-related organizations from the Omaha-Metro area will be on hand to discuss with attendees the work that they do as well as providing information about how individuals can get involved in their efforts.
Engagement Type:
Board Memberships
Activity Type:
None
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2022-23
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Transportation, Raise Awareness, Capacity Building, Clean Energy
Description : For this project Nathan Bedsole serves on the board for Mode Shift, a non-profit which advocates for transportation equity in Omaha.
Engagement Type:
Service Learning
Activity Type:
Course
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 9
Start Academic Year: 2020-21
UNO Student Hours: 8
End Semester:
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
None
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
5
Topics:
Education, Disadvantaged Populations, Holistic Wellness, Transportation
Description : Becky Brusky's STATS 1100 class were tasked with researching and innovating ideas on how to do data collection for our safe routes to school program. The students came up with innovative ideas to collect data from students that walk,roll, or bike to school. We know surveys are not preferred and there were some ideas that we would like to engage a future SLA class with. TWP will explore the idea of developing an app if an SLA class comes up and has the ability to do this. The idea came from the students themselves which would be a great app for the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
105
Topics:
Climate and Sustainability
Description : The Center for Urban Sustainability invites you to save the date for the Bio Innovation Summit featuring Mikhail Davis who will deliver the keynote address “Nature’s Design Genius: Using biomimicry to unlock profitable innovation.” The summit is free and open to the public.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2017-18
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2017-18
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
34
Topics:
Wildlife/Animal Welfare, Capacity Building
Description : Jim Lynch, Ph.D., will be on campus Friday, April 6 to present his latest research in victimization. His talk, entitled "Victimization Research and Data: If You Build It Will They Come?" will take place in Rooms 230/231 in the CEC building. It will start at 10:30 A.M. and run until noon. This event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Lynch is a professor and former chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. Prior to joining the department, he served as the director of the Bureay of Justice Statistics in the United States Department of Justice. His research focuses on victim surveys, victimization risk, the role of coercion in social control, and crime statistics.