SCOTTS BLUFF COUNTY, Neb. – University of Nebraska-Lincoln students who are based at the UNL Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center this summer will present a Student Research Fair on Thursday, Aug. 5, from 6-8 p.m.

Eight students are tentatively scheduled to present their research projects. Each student will speak for 5 minutes, and a forum will follow where the audience may ask questions. Following the presentations and forum, there will be an opportunity to visit one-on-one with the students. Refreshments will be available.

This event is open to the public and free to attend.

Students who are scheduled to present and their topics include:

Joshua Miranda: Palmer amaranth’s interference and management in dry beans.

Arnold Katende: Evaluating the effectiveness of different traps in the monitoring of the western bean cutworm. 

Santos Barrera: Improving dry beans ability to tolerate drought and heat stress from the use of tepary beans. 

Deepak Ghimire: Use of crop sensing technologies for nitrogen management.

Luis Ochoa: Sunflower pest management and its impact on yield and bee community in Nebraska. 

Henry Gonzalez: Beneficial impact of an air-injected subsurface drip irrigation system on crop yield and removal of contaminants using runoff from a feedlot.

Jeff Cluever: The benefits of a relay cropping system to a dry edible bean crop.

Anni Poetzl: Water quality research.

Angie Gradiz: Irrigation management research.

Emily Jundt: Optimizing soil and nutrient management to improve dry bean yield and protein quality.

Nebraska Extension educational programs abide with the nondiscrimination policies of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the United States Department of Agriculture.