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Honoring The Wellness Journey: An Evidence-Based Retreat To Build Stress Resilience In Honors Students, Sydney Tutuska, Alexandra Caldwell, Jennifer Willford

Honors in Practice Online Archive

Honors students are goal-oriented, motivated, and engaged achievers. As such, they often experience heavy course loads, manage multiple responsibilities, have limited free time, and sacrifice their health (relationships, sleep, nutrition) in pursuit of their goals. This essay presents an evidence-based wellness retreat designed for honors students at a medium-sized university. The authors describe the retreat’s inception, development, curricular advantages, and administration, with specific examples of targeted evidence-based programming. Eight workshops, designed to build resilience and coping skills, address mental agility and mindset, emotion regulation, social connection, and wellness habits. The authors observe student efficacy in the development of skills and …

Honoring Careers: Developing Professional Aspirations In Honors Programs, L. Benjamin Boyar

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This essay builds on previous arguments in honors for greater representation of preprofessional disciplines. Drawing from a focused honors accounting initiative, author explores how video interviews with alumni—created through an iterative process of outreach and collaboration—can effectively bridge intellectual inquiry and career preparation. Alumni narratives help students critically examine professional trajectories, connect current coursework with broader academic and societal contexts, and produce tangible outcomes, such as conference presentations and journal publications. By showcasing these diverse career trajectories, this approach reassures students in both preprofessional and traditional disciplines, demonstrating the relevance of their academic pursuits while ensuring honors education remains intellectually …

Microcredentials For Honors Healthcare Students: Translating Academic Achievement To The Resume, Tina C. Melamed, Belinda Deal, Steve Myers

Honors in Practice Online Archive

In healthcare disciplines, honors students need opportunities to develop research skills in line with current trends and advanced degree requirements. The authors present a pilot program offering a series of online, self-paced microcredentials to enhance scholarly and clinical research competencies. Instructional modules in three areas (introduction, research tools, applied scholarly communication) include activities and assessments for demonstrating competency. Each student works with a faculty member to develop a specific topic and apply elements of scholarly communication and documentation such as research methodology, APA style, data analysis, implications for clinical practice, and directions for future research. Successful completion of microcredentialing culminates …

Launching Cures In Non-Traditional Settings: How One Honors Program Propels Primary Research For The Institution, Kathryn M. Macdonald

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This essay considers how course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) can drive original research. Honors students in career-oriented majors (accounting, hospitality management, health services administration, criminal justice) develop primary research studies that are proposed for institutional review and then conducted within a specific population across the university. The author describes the CURE model within an honors curriculum, observing that it actively engages students in the full research cycle from conceptualization to dissemination and fosters critical thinking, methodological rigor, and ethical awareness. The author recommends its use in either group or individual settings to honors programs seeking to position students as active …

Thinking Beyond Ourselves: Using Interdisciplinary Exploration And Speculative Scenarios To Understand The Human Experience, Shannon Kundey

Honors in Practice Online Archive

This essay presents an interdisciplinary seminar in honors that challenges students to move beyond the limitations of human experience and examine cognition and behavior across species, environments, and hypothetical extraterrestrial minds. A Choose Your Own Adventure structure encourages reflection on cognitive biases, thereby fostering a nuanced understanding of intelligence, perspective, and sociality. Author observes that students benefit from frameworks that disrupt human-centered biases and suggests that engaging students in speculative scenarios prompts confronting and questioning assumptions about intelligence, ethics, and social dynamics.

Descripción De Una Nueva Especie De Tetralicia Harrison (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) De Petén, Guatemala, José Francisco García-Ochaeta, Vicente Emilio Carapia-Ruiz

Insecta Mundi

Resumen

Se describe una nueva especie de Aleyrodidae, Tetralicia dubeyi Carapia-Ruiz y García-Ochaeta nueva especie, fue encontrada en el envés de las hojas de Hamelia patens Jacq. (Rubiaceae) en San José, Jobompiche, Petén, Guatemala. Esta nueva especie es incluida en el grupo abnormis del género Tetralicia Harrison. Se ilustran con fotografías las estructuras morfológicas del pupario, se discute la relación con especies cercanas y se proporciona una clave para la identificación de los grupos y especies del grupo abnormis.

Abstract

A new species of Aleyrodidae, Tetralicia dubeyi Carapia-Ruiz y García-Ochaeta new species, was found on the underside of the …

Descriptions Of Four New Species Of Leptophloeus Casey (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) From The United States, Michael C. Thomas, Kyle E. Schnepp

Insecta Mundi

Four new species of Leptophloeus Casey (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae) are described: L. barbarus Thomas and Schnepp is described from Florida; L. glacialis Thomas and Schnepp is described from Alaska; L. peregrinus Thomas and Schnepp is described from Hawaii; and L. shoshone Thomas and Schnepp is described from Wyoming. Diagnoses and figures are provided for the new species.

On The Paratypes And Distribution Of Hemipeplus Quadricollis Pollock, 1999 (Coleoptera: Mycteridae: Hemipeplinae): Does It Occur In Peru?, Sajan Kc

Insecta Mundi

Hemipeplus quadricollis Pollock, 1999 (Coleoptera: Mycteridae: Hemipeplinae), was originally described from Rondonia State, Brazil, as its type locality, with 10 paratypes: eight from Brazil (Rondonia State) and two from Peru (Madre de Dios and Loreto departments). However, one of the paratypes from Peru (Madre de Dios) was later identified as a cryptic species, Hemipeplus pseudoquadricollis KC and Pollock, 2025. This raises questions about the single remaining paratype from Peru—whether the species truly occurs in Peru—and how many of the paratypes of H. quadricollis are actually H. quadricollis. In this study, all seven remaining paratypes of H. …

First Report Of Corn Leafhopper (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) In The Usa Midwest Suction Trap Network, Doris M. Lagos-Kutz, Isabel Plasencia, Christopher H. Dietrich, Joseph Laforest, Brian Mccornack, Erin Hodgson, Raul T. Villanueva, Nicholas J. Seiter, Anthony M. Mcmechan, Michael S. Crossley, Steven J. Clough

Insecta Mundi

Corn leafhopper, Dalbulus maidis (DeLong and Wolcott) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), is native to Central and South America, but invasive in the United States. This species is a threat to corn, Zea mays L., one of the main crops of economic importance in the US, because it is also a vector of three pathogens responsible for corn stunt diseases complex: corn stunt spiroplasma (CSS), maize bushy stunt phytoplasma (MBSP), and maize rayado fino virus (MRFV). Therefore, monitoring the dispersal of this pest is necessary to document its geographic expansion and anticipate the incidence of corn stunt disease. Based on trap catches obtained …

Distributional Records Of False Click Beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae) From Western North Carolina, John M. Leavengood Jr., Robert L. Otto, Mary Kait Brown

Insecta Mundi

Two new state records (North Carolina) and eight total species of false click beetles (Coleoptera: Eucnemidae) are reported from a survey site in western North Carolina. Updated distributions are provided for each species.

Geometric Modeling, Reconstruction And Evaluation Of Maize Leaf Morphology In 3d, Zhaocheng Xiang

Dissertations and Doctoral Documents, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2023–

Maize is a vital crop for global food security, yet quantitative characterization of its three-dimensional (3D) morphology remains a major challenge due to the geometric complexity of curved leaf structures and occlusions during data collection. This work presents an integrated framework for the digital reconstruction, parametric modeling, and functional analysis of maize leaf morphology and canopy architecture, advancing the precision and interpretability of phenotyping and modeling in smart agriculture.

First, we propose a descriptive and parametric model that represents maize leaves through three fundamental components: midrib, cross-section, and blade contour. Each is described by geometric curves and controlled by biologically …

Ber Anena’S Vagina Diaries, A Review: An African Student’S Encounter With The American Health System, Akua Agyeiwaa Denkyi-Manieson

Department of English: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This work delves into the disappointment, indifference, and pretense experienced by the narrator when she sorts the American healthcare system. It also addresses the struggles immigrants face, particularly from Africa, as they navigate a healthcare system that often requires them to prove their pain and worthiness of attention. The narrative emphasizes the importance of not generalizing the entire healthcare system based on a single negative experience while acknowledging the profound impact on one's perception of the system. Furthermore, it explores the paradox between the availability of better resources in America compared to the narrator's home country and the mistreatment and …

Conservation And Survey Division 2024 Annual Report, R.M. Joeckel, Michele Waszgis

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

The Conservation and Survey Division of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln is the agency designated by statute to investigate and interpret the geologically related natural resources of the State, to make available to the public the results of these investigations, and to assist in the development and conservation of these resources. It consists of program areas in geology, water, soils and remote sensing-geographic information systems.

Stratigraphy And Osl Chronology Of Lunette Deposits Indicates That Nebraska’S Rainwater Basins Formed By Aeolian Deflation Between 39 And 25 Ka, P.R. Hanson, Robert Matthew Joeckel

Conservation and Survey Division: Faculty and Staff Publications

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The Future Of Interviewer-Administered Surveys, Kristen Olson

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

One of the most substantial shifts over the last decade has been in the use of in-person and telephone interviewers as a survey mode of administration. Historically in-person surveys switched to being conducted by telephone or mixed with self-administered modes of web and paper questionnaires (de Leeuw 2005; Olson et al. 2012; 2021). As one example, Figure 1 shows the proportion of telephone interviews conducted in three government surveys in the United States—the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the Current Population Survey (CPS), and the American Community Survey (ACS). The NHIS and CPS traditionally use primarily in-person interviews. Before 2020, …

The Role Of Formal Social Networks In Mitigating Age-Related Mental Stress Among Older Nigerians Living In Poverty: Insights From Social Capital Theory, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Munirat Sanmori, Medinah Suleiman

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

As Nigeria’s aging population increases, older adults living in poverty face growing threats to their psychological well-being. This study examines the role of formal social networks such as government programs, non-governmental organizations and faith-based initiatives in alleviating mental stress, defined as persistent psychological distress characterized by anxiety, loneliness and emotional strain, distinct from clinically diagnosed mental illness. Using Social Capital Theory as a guiding framework, the review explores how bonding, bridging and linking social capital influence the ability of formal networks to reduce financial insecurity, social isolation and health-related vulnerabilities. Traditional family caregiving structures are weakening due to rapid urbanization …

Aging With Hiv In Nigeria: A Narrative Review Of Multimorbidity And Healthcare Access Challenges, Sunkanmi Folorunsho, Beulah Suleman

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Background and Aims: The population of older adults living with HIV (OALHIV) in Nigeria is growing, bringing forth a dual challenge of chronic comorbidities and barriers to adequate healthcare. This narrative review aims to synthesize empirical evidence on multimorbidity, treatment access, and systemic healthcare gaps affecting OALHIV in Nigeria.

Methods: A structured narrative review was conducted using peer‐reviewed articles and institutional reports published between 2005 and 2024. Searches were performed across PubMed, Google Scholar, African Journals Online (AJOL), Science Direct, and WHO and UNAIDS databases. Eligible studies focused on individuals aged 50 years and older living with HIV in Nigeria …

New Development Plans Posing A Threat To Great Gobi A Spa And Its Ecological Integrity, Reinhard Schnidrig, Petra Kaczensky, Ganbaatar Oyunsaikhan, Baast Oyungerel, Ganbold Dovchindorj, Bolor Radnaabazar, Bayanmunkh Dashnyam, Batsukh Jamiyandorj, Usukhjargal Dorj, Bulgan Odmaa, Jens Wunderlich, Hans Dieter Knapp

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The Great Gobi A Strictly Protected Area (SPA), Mongolia's largest protected area (size: 46,333 km²) is of high national and international importance for biodiversity conservation. It is home of several critically endangered species, including the Wild Bactrian Camel, the Gobi Bear, and various other threatened and migratory large mammal species. Established in 1975 and designated as a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve in 1991, the SPA plays a vital role, both nationally and globally, in preserving wildlife and maintaining ecological integrity. Additionally, the area provides essential ecosystem services, including water and soil retention, as well as carbon sequestration. Since …

Six Decennia Of Mongolian–German Biological Co-Operation, Michael Stubbe, R Samjaa, N. Batsajchan, D. Lchagvasuren, Annegret Stubbe

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Introduction to band 15 (2025) of Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei.

The Eastern Mongolian Steppes: Nominated To The Unesco World Heritage List, Chimed-Ochir Bazarsad, Purev-Ochir Gankhuyag, Tilman Jäger, Hans Dieter Knapp, Nika Malazonia, Bulgan Odmaa

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Temperate grasslands are one of the major biomes of the global biosphere, but underrepresented in the global protected area network. They are complex ecosystem, which adapted in co-evolution of vegetation and migratory large herbivores in interactions with small mammals like rodents, with predatory mammals and divers birdlife, with insects and soil organisms to extreme climate conditions in continental, semi-arid regions. The original distribution covered large territories in South- America (“pampa”), in North-America (“prairie”), and in Eurasia (“steppe”).

Most of them are destroyed by conversion or degraded by overgrazing. Mongolia is the worldwide only country, where temperate grasslands survived in large …

How The Wwf Came To Mongolia, Hartmut Jungius, Chimed-Ochir Bazarsad, Hans Dieter Knapp

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Three leading actors and eyewitnesses describe how WWF came to Mongolia in 1992 and supported the development and implementation of a comprehensive protected area system.

A Remarkable Find Of Synneuron Annulipes Lundström, New To Mongolia (Diptera, Canthyloscelidae), Elias De Bree

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The discovery of Synneuron annulipes Lundström, 1910 (Diptera, Canthyloscelidae) at Tsenkher, Mongolia, the southernmost record of the species in the Palaearctic and 4,000 km eastwards from its closest observation is a species and family new for the fauna of Mongolia.

First Record Of Pseudangularia Europaea Georgiev And Murai, 1993 (Cestoda: Dilepididae) From The Pacific Swift, Apus Pacificus Latham, 1801 (Aves: Apodidae) In Mongolia, Allison R. Hearty, Gábor R. Rácz, Nyamsuren Batsaikhan, Scott L. Gardner

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Pseudangularia europaea GEORGIEV AND MURAI, 1993 (Cestoda: Dilepididae), is reported for the first time from the Pacific swift, Apus pacificus LATHAM, 1801 (Aves: Apodidae), from Mongolia. A single individual of Apus pacificus and ten individuals of the common swift, Apus apus LINNAEUS, 1758 (Aves: Apodidae) were collected, examined, and found to be infected with Pseudangularia europaea. Three additional species of helminths were identified from Apus apus, including: Notopentorchis vesiculigera (KRABBE, 1882) (Cestoda: Paruterinidae), Brachydistomum olssoni (RAILLIET, 1900) (Trematoda: Dicrocoelidae), and Plagiorchis maculosus (RUDOLPHI, 1802) (Trematoda: Plagiorchiidae). This paper rectifies the lack of available data on swifts in Mongolia …

Chiroptera Mongolia: Zwanzig Jahre Freizeitforschung In Der Mongolei, Dietrich Dolch, Klaus Thiele, D. Steinhauser, B. Gärtner

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

In 1999, four participants from Brandenburg also took part in a mammal field excursion through Mongolia organized by Professor Michael Stubbe from the Martin Luther University and Professor R. Samjaa from the National University of Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar. They discovered the bats of Mongolia as a fascinating field of work and established contacts with Mongolian colleagues, with whom they organized bat-oriented research expeditions under the motto "Chiroptera Mongolia." These eight expeditions, organized on a voluntary basis and privately funded over a period of twenty years, were eventful and scientifically productive.

Model Of The Distribution Of The Nomion Apollo (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae) Butterfly In Mongolia, Gantigmaa Chuluunbaatar, Richard P. Reading

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The distribution of the Nomion Apollo Butterfly (Parnassius nomion FISCHER von WALDHEIM, 1823) remains poorly studied, especially in Mongolia. We studied the Nomion Apollo in Mongolia to detect locations within different habitat types, create a distribution map for populations of the species, describe preferred vegetation communities, and assess the environmental factors that influence the species’ distribution. We surveyed 10 sites with known populations of Nomion Apollo butterflies in northern Mongolia and sampled the vegetation communities where we found butterflies. We then created a distribution map of Nomion Apollo using the program MaxEnt/3.4.1 based on the relationship between the abundance …

History Of Research Into The Bat Fauna Of Mongolia (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae), Michael Stubbe, Annegret Stubbe, Davaa Lkhagvasuren

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The first stage of the exploration of the bat fauna of Mongolia is characterized by the collection of specimens by explorers of large Russian expeditions in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Names such as G. RADDE, N.M. PRZEWALSKI, P.K. KOZLOV, M.V. PEVCOV, G.N. POTANIN, V.I. ROBOROVSKIJ and others are closely associated with this collection, which came primarily to the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg and analysed by BOBRINSKOJ (1926, 1929).

At the beginning of the 40s of the 20th century, A.G. BANNIKOV came to Ulaanbaatar to support the …

Important Bat Caves In Mongolia: Key Sites For Conservation, Jargalsaikhan Ariunbold, Joseph R. Hoyt, Nyamsuren Batsaikhan, Byambajav Delgermurun, Krizler C. Tanalgo, A. Bilguun, Dalannast Munkhnast

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Caves are important habitats for a variety of different species, such as bats. Many species of bats are cave obligates, specifically in temperate zones, spending almost half the year hibernating in them. There are hundreds of caves identified in Mongolia, where past studies have mostly focused on cave morphology, geology, and archeology. However, a comprehensive assessment of cave-dwelling bats has not yet been conducted. In this study, abundance, species richness, population size, and identification of key sites of cave-dwelling bats in Mongolia was conducted using observations gathered over the past 15 years (2009–2024). It was found that bat population size …

Art Teams: Teaching With Arts And Emerging Media Year 3 Infographic, Azadeh Hassani, Hyeonjin Yoon, Guy Trainin, Kimberley D'Adamo, Jiabin Lyu

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

Grant annual report, year 3, infographic

Universty of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2025

Art TEAMS, Year 3: Supporting K-12 Teachers through the Integration of Arts-centered Practices and Emerging Media

Bioshock And Bioshock 2: A Case Study Of Tragic Posthumans, Madison Knight

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Video games offer unique perspectives when analyzing the social structures built into the world of a text; choice becomes a major factor in the central action of video games as players take control of the story’s main protagonists. Two video games that fixate on this idea of choice and its intersection with the posthuman are Ken Levine’s BioShock (2007) and its direct successor, Jordan Thomas’s BioShock 2 (2010). The games each feature posthuman protagonists. Posthumans themselves are often prejudiced and portrayed to be “other,” and while BioShock equally asserts posthumans as “others,” these games show a different side to the …

Volume 11, Issue 3, Critical Currents And Pedagogical Shifts In Popular Culture And Pedagogy, Journal Dialogue

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

Volume 11, Issue 3 of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy: On Confronting Identity and Global Challenges through Popular Culture and Pedagogy.