Projects Report
This report shows the various collaborative projects between UNO and the community.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description : None
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Music/Dance
Description : Join microphone designer and entrepreneur, Michael Joly, as he talks about his experience in the field of music technology. Michael Joly is an expert in microphone modification and design. Find out about his work with his company OktavaMod, his experience working for dbx Inc., his work with the radio broadcast group Greater Media Inc., and his new position as co-founder and CEO of the mental-wellness audio technology company Hear Now Systems.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Refugees, Theatre and Cinema
Description : UNO and community members are invited to view the moving and informative documentary “This Is Home: A Refugee Story,” which follows four Syrian refugee families as they navigate a new life in Baltimore, MD during the first 8 months after resettlement. After the film, there will be a brief panel discussion with Lacey Studnicka of Lutheran Family Services and two Central High School students whose families were resettled in Omaha as refugees from Syria. Food will be provided. This event is sponsored by Lutheran Family Services, Omaha Public Schools, Central High School, Goldstein Family Community Chair in Human Rights, and the UNO Department of Religious Studies.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Raise Awareness, History
Description : Presented by of Humanities Nebraska, the UNO Islamic Studies Program and Sustained Dialogue, author and professor Mohammad H. Khalil, Ph.D., of Michigan State University, will give a lecture titled, “Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism.” Mohammad Hassan Khalil is an associate professor of Religious Studies, an adjunct professor of Law, and Director of the Muslim Studies Program. Before returning to his hometown of East Lansing, Michigan, he was an assistant professor of Religion and a visiting professor of Law at the University of Illinois. He specializes in Islamic thought and is author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism (Cambridge University Press, 2018); and editor of Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (Oxford University Press, 2013). He has presented papers at various national and international conferences and has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on various topics, from early Islamic historiography to bioethics. This lecture is part of “Dialogue with Muslim Communities in Omaha” project. This is the eighth event in the series.
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:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Inclusion, Diversity & Equity, Gender Equality, Theatre and Cinema
Description : In the late 16th century, London women were not permitted to act in theatrical works. Shakespeare’s focus was, therefore, restricted to male-dominated casts and masculine-centric plots (only 16% of all the lines written in his plays are delivered by female characters). https://www.unomaha.edu/community-engagement-center/news/events/2019/03/coupled-and-inseparable.php Now, even though women make up over 70% of the total Shakespeare viewing audience, less than one-fourth of professional directors and designers are women. In performance, the opportunities for men outnumber those available to women 8 to 1. In response to the imbalance of female artistic representation in Shakespeare’s productions, Nebraska Shakespeare launched Juno’s Swans in 2016, a program producing Shakespeare works that explores his characters and text through the female experience and perspective. In this lecture, featuring exciting live performances by Nebraska Shakespeare actors, Sarah Brown, Artistic Director of Nebraska Shakespeare, will explore Shakespeare’s relationship with women, the history of crossed-gendered theatre, and will engage in free-form discussion about how producing Shakespeare with a feminine perspective can illuminate the universal humanity of his plays in a new and surprising way.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Education
Description : Dr. Jenny Heineman is an Instructor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and uses she/her pronouns. She joined UNO as full-time faculty in 2016 after receiving her PhD in Sociology from the University of Las Vegas, Nevada. Her academic and activist work focuses on labor rights, gender, sexuality, and feminist theory more generally. In 2014, she was awarded a $15,000 grant to study students engaged in sex work, which was the topic of her dissertation. In Nevada, she was the director of the Sex Worker’s Outreach Project, a labor rights non-profit and sat on the board of the national organization of the same name. Additionally, she worked with the Nevada Public Health Alliance for Syringe Access, Amnesty International, the U.S. Department of Justice, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel on issues related to sex work, sex trafficking, drug use, and homelessness. She currently chairs the Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. As a researcher and educator, her philosophies come from critical pedagogy and community-based research. She hopes to expand on her research interests in Nebraska by working with grass-roots labor organizations focused on the needs of sex workers. The Midlands Sexual Health Research Collaborative (MSHRC) Student Organization
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : "Sex: What are we so ashamed of?" Have you ever wondered why so many cultures across the globe stay silent about sex—not only in public spaces and classrooms but inside the bedroom and between couples as well? From a very young age, Sofia Jawed-Wessel, Ph.D., MPH, has also been curious about the same encircling conversations of sex, which have fueled her professional career. In this talk, Jawed-Wessel explores how we arrived at this shame and fear around sex while also being inundated with sexual content in media all around us. She is an Associate Professor in the UNO School of Health and Kinesiology and Co-Director of the Midlands Sexual Health Research Collaborative. Jawed-Wessel's goal is to research and understand how intimate relationships are impacted by sexual and/or maternal objectification. She is an expert and advocate in women's rights and reproductive justice.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Spring
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Spring
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description : "Parasitic Brain Drain: A Look at Toxoplasma, the Most Common Brain Infection in the World." Paul H. Davis, Ph.D., is an expert in tropical infectious diseases in humans. He studies the molecular pathogenesis of the human parasite Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) and other closely related parasites including those responsible for causing malaria. T. gondii infects over one-third of the world population, forms cysts in the brain which are immune and drug-resistant, and is a leading cause of fetal malformations. Davis is an associate professor and oversees the Molecular Parasitology Lab, in the UNO College of Arts and Science.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Other
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2016-17
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2016-17
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Disadvantaged Populations, Raise Awareness, Art
Description : The gallery will feature nationally-curated art meant for more senses than sight, tactile interpretations of classic art, and artwork created at four art workshops for the visually impaired, which were held at UNO over the summer. The name of the exhibit says it all: this art is meant to be touched. The art workshops were made possible with assistance from the Nebraska Arts Council, WhyArts?, Omaha Association of the Blind, Outlook Nebraska, Pamela Duncan (interpreter), and volunteer student interpreters from UNO.
Engagement Type:
Community-Based Learning
Activity Type:
Other
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:
0
Topics:
Develop./Physical Disability, Art
Description : A tactile art exhibit that is part of a national movement to increase accessibility in museums, galleries and classrooms.