The Fremont Area Community Foundation has emerged as a potential source of fundraising for an investigation to study the long-term environmental and health effects pesticides have had near the AltEn ethanol plant in Mead.
Executive Director Melissa Diers said the foundation has not committed any funds to the study, which is in its early phases of development.
However, the foundation has met with members of the research team, which consists of public health officials and researchers from the University of Nebraska and Creighton University, to learn more about the project.
âWeâre interested in this endeavor because Mead is within our grant area and is a community that we exist to support like every other community within our six-county-plus grant area,â Diers said.
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Editorâs Note:Â This story was updated on Feb. 24 to include updated data from UNLâs COVID-19 Dashboard.
Over 20,000 University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty, staff and students have either had a cotton swab inserted into their nose or spit into a tube in the past two weeks in preparation for the start of the spring 2021 semester.
UNL opened its new, mandatory saliva-based testing program to students in the Nebraska College of Law, Nebraska College of Technical, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry and UNMC College of Nursing on Jan. 12, according to Leslie Reed, UNLâs public affairs director.The saliva-based program opened to the rest of the UNL community on Jan. 19.