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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
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PhD Alumni Awarded Grant to Further Native American Owned Small Business Research
Dr. Jason Xiong, a 2016 Ph.D. in information technology graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) College of Information Science and Technology (IS&T), is one of 36 recipients of the 2017 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award by Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU). Competing with 125 other applicants, Xiong was awarded a one-year, $5,000 grant to expand upon his research for his project “Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Sustainable Development: Interventions with Native American Owned Small Businesses.”
IS&T Career Fairs
IT internships and jobs fair hosted by UNO's College of Information Science & Technology
How Our Immune Systems Learn to Defend: An IS&T Faculty Member Investigates
As an assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science and Technology with a background in Medicine and Bioinformatics, Dr. Dario Ghersi has a rich history in human health and data analytics. Recently, his research was published in the prestigious Nature Structural and Molecular Biology publication, one of the premier journals in his field.
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Alumni Highlight: Joshua Clark
As Undergraduate Speaker for the 2016 Spring Commencement, Joshua Clark has some words of wisdom for students looking at IT careers.
Alumni Highlight: Brittany Phillips
2014 graduate Brittany studied abroad in Germany and Austria, taking full advantage of IS&T's multiple partnerships abroad. Check out her story, and why attending IS&T was the best decision for her.
IS&T Alumni Highlight: Flywheel
Flywheel recently took home some impressive honors at the Silicon Prairie Awards. We caught up with Flywheel co-founder, Rick Knudtson, and senior software engineer, Andy Peters, both IS&T alumni, as well as intern and current IS&T student Kat Slump, to talk about start-ups and career advice.
IS&T In the News
- Techademy Offers Students Opportunities
- Grace: Muslim student who graduated from UNO, his Omaha ‘G-ma’ bridge a cultural gap
- UNO's cyber operation program receives high honor
- MIT Technology Review: How a College Kid Made His Honda Civic Self-Driving for $700
- UNO on course to train more K-12 teachers in computer science
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