Leatha passed away on Jan. 12 at the age of 81.
Joining UNO in 1980 and working as a member of the Food Services team until her retirement in 2009, Leatha worked with many staff, students, and faculty during her 29 years of service.
She is survived by her children: Gloria Suarez, William Ward, Roy Ward, Carmela Ward, and Robin Young; as well as a number of grandchildren and great grandchildren.
The thoughts and condolences of the university community are with Leatha s loved ones during this time.
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Troy Romero, Ph.D., began his UNO journey as an undergraduate student in 1992. Today he is the Chair of the Goodrich Scholarship Program, the same program that helped him - and nearly 2,000 other students - earn a bachelor s degree.
The University of Nebraska at Omaha has been Troy Romero s home for nearly 40 years - in more ways than one.
This week, Romero, whose doctorate is in psychology, begins his tenure as chair of the Goodrich Scholarship Program. It s a role that he s seemingly been working towards his entire life, though he never would have thought so when he was a Goodrich Scholar, himself, in the early 1990s.
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A new study shows that a widespread decline in abundance of emergent insects - whose immature stages develop in lakes and streams while the adults live on land - can help to explain the alarming decline in abundance and diversity of aerial insectivorous birds (i.e. preying on flying insects) across the USA. In turn, the decline in emergent insects appears to be driven by human disturbance and pollution of water bodies, especially in streams. This study, published in
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, is one of the first to find evidence for a causal link between the decline of insectivorous birds, the decline of emergent aquatic insects, and poor water quality.
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