The 2012 LOSS (Local Outreach to Suicide Survivors) Conference will be held May 31 - June 1, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Dr. Frank Campbell, a leading expert in Suicidology along with other experts, will share the lessons learned in years of helping survivors of suicide, how sudden traumatic loss impacts survivors and grief through the different developmental stages.
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This five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation funds a multidisciplinary graduate program focused on resilience and adaptive governance in stressed watersheds. This collaborative program integrates scientific, social, economic and legal aspects of managing complex water issues. The Public Policy Center works on applicable policy and social science issues.
The program will educate doctoral students from many disciplines to become the next generation of natural resource scientists, managers and policymakers. This grant furthers UNL’s strategic goals for interdisciplinary research and education, and UNL’s commitment to be a leader in water research. More than 20 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members are participating in the IGERT program, and more than 20 graduate students will be supported by IGERT funds.
For a PDF of the project brochure CLICK HERE. 
For more information about the program please visit http://snr.unl.edu/igert/.
Key Partners
Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Geosciences
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Natural Resources
Funding
National Science Foundation
In The News
$3.1M IGERT Award Is a First for UNL. (2009-11-23). Scarlet.
$3.1 million NSF Grant Funds Innovative Grad Education Program. (2010-02-25). Water Current (pg. 1; continued on pg. 16) .
Innovative Grad Program Tackles Water Issues. (2010-03-11). Good NUz.
IGERT Water Project. (2010-09-07). University Communications (.mp4 file 2 minutes).
Name: Joseph Hamm
E-mail: jhamm2@nebraska.edu
