In the news: Burks encourages students of color to join STEM fields

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In the news: Burks encourages students of color to join STEM fields

Video: Marianna Burks feature on KETV

“Chronicle: Celebrating Black History Month,” a production by KETV in Omaha, featured the work Nebraska’s Marianna Burks is doing to get more students of color interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.

Click the video above to learn more.

Burks is a science learning specialist with TRIO Programs and an instructor in the Department of Biological Sciences. Her work developing a summer research internship program for first-year Huskers was featured in Nebraska Today in August. Read more about that project here.

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