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This project is to create foundational knowledge needed to improve climate resilience of wheat and rice cultivars.

MERC supports this project with evaluating outputs and outcomes of the outreach components.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) provides Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to support small businesses with research and development.

MERC was contracted to analyze a past survey of USDA SBIR recipients, and to update and field a new survey to capture changes.

This project is part of a nationwide effort to better support the data needs of agricultural stakeholders in the US.

MERC supports this project by assisting with the data collection instruments, conducting the data collection, and cleaning, analysis, and reporting of results.

The project developed and researched an integrated package of high-quality, widely accessible media and other outreach materials designed to engage middle school youth, educators, and libraries in learning about viruses in relation to COVID-19.

MERC provided evaluation and research support for this RAPID grant.

This project aimed to provide pre-doctoral students with fundamental knowledge of viral pathogenesis and laboratory research experience.

MERC support this project by assessing he environment provided by the T32 Program for Fellows in the program.

AIDS associated cancer treatment in Zambia was the focus of this project as part of a partnership with the Zambian government through different fellowships and trainings to enhance knowledge and skills of professionals in this field.

MERC supported this program by providing both formative and summative evaluation.

This project aimed to develop transformative concept and tools to characterize, model, and design system based on biological cells in order to control the propagation for information in biological environments.

MERC supported this project with evaluation and surveying student participants.

This agricultural irrigation project uses low cost yet powerful sensors to record real-time weather and soil moisture, observe different techniques to improve weather and crop forecast, and to incorporate weather forecast to regulate irrigation processes.

MERC supports this project with data collection, analysis and reporting for related outreach events, and works with the Bureau of Sociological Research to conduct surveys of farmers in the targeted area.

The Omaha Collegiate Consortium (OCC) is a part of the Nebraska Collegiate Prevention Alliance (NECPA), which focuses on substance abuse prevention among 18-24 year old college students. The OCC is a partnership between seven institutions in the Omaha Metro area: Bellevue, Clarkson, College of St. Mary, Creighton, Metropolitan Community College, Nebraska Methodist College, and the University of Omaha.

This project focused on teacher training and piloting a curriculum on K-14 educators, and then offered nationally once finalized.

MERC supported this project by collecting and analyzing formative and summative data from the testing and piloting phases of the project.