Global Career Spotlight: Jamie Saxon is Senior Director of Sustainability and External Innovation and a member of the Science Leadership Team at Inari. In addition to championing the company’s nature-positive vision, she launched Inari’s technology partnerships strategy and framework, managing due diligence, negotiations and agreement execution for multiple technologies. Prior to her current role, Jamie held other roles within Inari, including Corporate Portfolio Director and Director of Operations. Before joining Inari, Jamie was a fellow at Flagship Pioneering and a postdoctoral fellow at Dana Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School. Jamie holds a PhD in cancer biology from Vanderbilt University and a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology from Princeton University.

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Have you been searching for a global experience that is both academically rich and more financially manageable than some traditional study abroad trips? We encourage you to explore the Tropical Biobased Production Systems International School, hosted by our longtime institutional partner, the University of Sao Paolo ESALQ in Brazil. For the second consecutive year, a Nebraska student has represented UNL in the program alongside students from all over the world. Take part in 60 hours of field visits, lectures, and other programming for free, only covering flight and highly affordable room and board while there. DPH graduate student Alexander Angel recently returned from the experience and will share about how it contributed his professional and academic journey. Virtual session, register to receive Zoom info. More about the ESALQ Summer School here: https://en.esalq.usp.br/international-school/program

We kicked off our new semester of global learning hub events with an expert on SDG #13 Climate Action, James Daugherty of CSIRO Australia.

As the second programming event for the new CASNR community of practice around global learning, we’re excited to welcome you to this semester’s “Global For All (mini)Series." This semester, our sessions are focused on one such inclusive practice in our toolbox of accessible global learning called “collaborative online international learning” or COIL (also referred to as virtual exchange): exploring this methodology and highlighting faculty already implementing it. Our colleagues in the Department of Modern Languages have helped Nebraska students increase their cultural competence, worldviews, and foreign language capacity by collaborating with students from the Pan-American Zamorano University as they connect across borders, languages, and cultures.

(About the Global Learning Community of Practice: We will convene monthly to learn from each other and our non-UNL colleagues, plus regularly share information around global opportunities for students including lower-cost or free travel opportunities, online collaborations between student groups/classes/etc., the CASNR Global Learning Hub event series, study abroad, and other methods focused on increased access. Feel free to attend any/all events, invite others, check out recordings, share resources or ideas, or suggest yourself or a colleague to be featured.)

As the first programming event for the new CASNR community of practice around global learning, we’re excited to welcome you to this semester’s “Global For All (mini)Series."

This semester, our three sessions are focused on one such inclusive practice in our toolbox of accessible global learning called “collaborative online international learning” or COIL (also referred to as virtual exchange): exploring this methodology and highlighting faculty already implementing it. The following recording showcases the experience of emeritus faculty member Thomas Franti, of BSE, who up until his retirement last year had worked with Dr. Grant Clark in the Bioresource Engineering Department at McGill University, Montreal. This co-taught course introduces students to ecology and engineering design, and allows them to create an ecological engineering design project by collaborating internationally with students from McGill across borders, languages, and cultures.

(About the Global Learning Community of Practice: We will convene monthly to learn from each other and our non-UNL colleagues, plus regularly share information around global opportunities for students including lower-cost or free travel opportunities, online collaborations between student groups/classes/etc., the CASNR Global Learning Hub event series, study abroad, and other methods focused on increased access. Feel free to attend any/all events, invite others, check out recordings, share resources or ideas, or suggest yourself or a colleague to be featured.)

As part of our ongoing expert sessions for the SDG Scholars Program, we present global expert Balkissa Daoura, speaking to several SDGs including Climate Action, Zero Hunger, Life on Land, and more. Balkissa is the founder of Kandili, a land restoration and climate activism organization in Niger.

It's #GreenCareerWeek!

Join us for this series of videos to explore the amazing careers in the ag, plant, food, environment space that our alumni have in the U.S. and world!

In this video, get to know Jorge Venegas, originally of Ecuador who graduated from UNL , now Latin America Berry Operations Director at Pairwise.

Get to know the many students who’ve found their way from Zamorano University, the Pan-American institution in Honduras all the way to Lincoln, Nebraska. We’ll hear from current students, alumni, and faculty as we hold a panel discussion exploring how this pathway to Nebraska began, students' experiences in each institution, plus existing and potential ways the two universities are partnering.

Part of International Education Week 2023

An open event featuring one of our SDG Scholars Program global experts: Biplabketan Paul, water innovator, food security champion and creator of the World Bank-awarded rainwater catchment system named Bhungaroo.

About Bhungaroo: we are a social enterprise in Ahmedabad, India. Our innovative two-fold solution can increase India’s annual agri-income by $1.5B and globally $208B, empower poor women engaged in agriculture, and equip 1,000 women to become agriculture and irrigation consultants to small farmers. Their support to poor farmers on crop survival, package of practices, irrigation and installation of 10,000 Bhungroo units will enable 50,000 farming families to triple their income.