The University of Nebraska–Lincoln has awarded stipends to 221 Husker undergraduates to participate in research with a faculty mentor during the 2023-24 academic year. Two Agronomy and Horticulture students have received UCARE awards including Alessandra Meza, a senior plant and landscape systems major, and Cole Hammett, a senior plant biology major.
Nebraska’s Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experience Program supports undergraduates to work with faculty mentors in research or creative activities. Students receive stipends of $2,400 to engage in intensive research or creative activity for 10 hours per week.
Meza’s project title is “Investigating Double-Strand Break Repair in Mitochondrial DNA in Arabidopsis.”
Hammett’s project title is “The Effect of Drought-Stress Conditions on the Germination of Solid-Stem Populations of Winter Wheat, Triticum aestivum.”
For more information on undergraduate research at Nebraska, click here.
See the full list of University of Nebraska–Lincoln students by hometown who received UCARE awards, with their year in school, academic major(s) and project title.
