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: Summer
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Summer
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
4
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education, Literacy, Neighborhood Revitalization
Description : Join educators, librarians, coders, designers, scientists, artists, technologists, and others at Mozilla’s Global Sprint, June 1-2, 2017! Global Sprint is designed to be a fast-paced, two-day event to hack and build projects for a healthy Internet. Held at the Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center, Global Sprint in Omaha will focus on the creation of a new project, Omaha Parks. The city has no user-friendly portal for aiding the discovery of parks, or for searching or filtering parks based on their amenities. Omaha Parks will seek to bridge that gap by building an interactive map to aid citizens in discovering parks that fit their needs and wants. Omaha Parks is an open source project and values open collaboration. Anyone wishing to take part in Global Sprint is free to come by anytime and stay for as short or as long as they’d like. And the collaboration continues afterward on Github; if you’re unable to attend, discover the community online. Tickets and more information about the event can be found online here. Click to visit the Github community
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
0
Topics:
Description : n 1988, the National Coalition of Juvenile Justice State Advisory Groups authored a report which shed light on the extent of the disproportional makeup of minority youth confined in secure facilities across the country. The groundbreaking report lead to Congressional action mandating states participating in Formula Grants programs to address efforts to reduce the disproportion. This Summit provides an opportunity to engage community members, stakeholders, families, and youth in discussions lead by subject matter experts to identify strategies to reduce disproportionate minority contact (DMC).
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Workshop
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
45
Topics:
STEM/STEM Education
Description : Cybercrimes are becoming more commonplace, more dangerous and more sophisticated. NBDC is partnering with the FBI to educate the business community on the latest onslaught of cyber threats, how you can protect your operation and who to call at the FBI for help. The seminar is part of FBI CREST (Community Relations Executive Seminar Training) – a program designed to build trust and strengthen relationships between the FBI and the communities it serves. Classes are taught by FBI executives, senior special agents, and program managers.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
53
Topics:
Description : How does Turkey's crisis with the US influence international politics in the Middle East? What results does the US expect to get from the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran? What are the chances of open military confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2019? Omaha native, Kate (Weitz) Bauer, returns to share her global experiences and expertise. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. where she is the Blumenstein-Katz Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in addition to serving as an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Ms. Bauer has previously served as the financial attaché in Jerusalem and the Gulf. She is a former nonproliferation graduate fellow at the Department of Energy’s National Security Nuclear Security Administration and received her master’s degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
45
Topics:
Description : What does the future hold for relations between Israeli-Jews and Palestinians on a people-to-people level? How are the U.S.-Saudi relations changing because of Jamal Khashoggi's murder? What does the recent attack on Copts in Egypt portend?
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: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
40
Topics:
Description : "How do people become homegrown terrorists?" For the past decade, Dr. Gina Ligon has researched how hate groups and terrorist organizations function and recruit members. She is an associate professor of management in the UNO College of Business Administration and works in The Center for Collaboration Science.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
90
Topics:
Inter/Trans-culture, Grief
Description : The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies is pleased to announce that we are hosting the "Moshe Gershovich Memorial Symposium and Publication Workshop on Global North Africa and the Middle East" on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the UNO Community Engagement Center. This symposium will honor the memory of the late Dr. Moshe Gershovich (1959 -2017) by hosting scholars from around the world who, like Moshe, are experts on Global North Africa and the Middle East. Dr. Moshe Gershovich, who was a Professor of History and Director of the Schwalb Center, was passionate about this region and was one of the top experts on Moroccan history. Paying homage to his area of study, the public is invited to two keynote events at 12:30 P.M. and 7 P.M. Dr. Wilfrid Rollman will present the afternoon keynote at 12:30 P.M. on “North African Soldiers in French Service, 1914-1945: Recognizing and Reappraising the Work of Moshe Gershovich.” The evening keynote at 7 P.M. is entitled “” with Dr. William Lawrence. Dr. Rollman is a Senior Lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and a Visiting Professor at Harvard University and is currently completing the translation and critical study of an Arabic memoir on nineteenth and early 20th century Morocco. Dr. Lawrence is currently a Visiting Professor at the Elliot School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He was a former State Department Senior Advisor for Global Engagement, International Crisis Group North Africa Director, and Control Risks Associate Director for Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Drs. Lawrence and Rollman were colleagues with Moshe Gershovich and will speak to his legacy.
Engagement Type:
Knowledge and Resource Sharing
Activity Type:
Community-oriented lecture/event
Start Semester: Fall
Total UNO Students: 0
Start Academic Year: 2018-19
UNO Student Hours: 0
End Semester:
Fall
Total K-12 Students: 0
End Academic Year:
2018-19
K-12 Student Hours: 0
Total Number of Other Participants:
53
Topics:
Description : How does Turkey's crisis with the US influence international politics in the Middle East? What results does the US expect to get from the re-imposition of sanctions on Iran? What are the chances of open military confrontation between Israel and Iran in 2019? Omaha native, Kate (Weitz) Bauer, returns to share her global experiences and expertise. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. where she is the Blumenstein-Katz Family Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy in addition to serving as an adjunct associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. Ms. Bauer has previously served as the financial attaché in Jerusalem and the Gulf. She is a former nonproliferation graduate fellow at the Department of Energy’s National Security Nuclear Security Administration and received her master’s degree from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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.