# Encouraging Excellence: Health Science Education in Native American Communities

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER · 2021 · $111,812

## Abstract

The University of Nebraska Medical Center will continue to leverage the trust and
cooperative spirit that we have garnered working with tribal schools and communities in
Nebraska and South Dakota to develop, implement, and evaluate science curriculum,
outreach activities, and training experiences targeting Native American students in
grades K-12 and their teachers. The long-term goals of this project are to promote
student interest in the sciences, foster a more science-literate public, and
ultimately increase the number of Native Americans entering health and science
careers. Advancing the health of Native American communities is the ultimate aim of
every aspect of this project. Improved science teaching and heightened awareness of
health careers will encourage students to enter these careers and hopefully bring these
skills back to their communities. Public outreach that increases health literacy and
healthy living will promote better personal health decisions. This supplement request
seeks to expand our SEPA program to provide directed academic preparation to middle
and high school students from our Native community partnerships. Since the end of the
2019-2020 academic year and virtually all the 2020-2021 academic year, students have
undergone a mixture of in-person, virtual, and sometimes no-learning. In some cases,
grading was suspended, which did not provide incentives to learning. Here will propose
to establish learning clubs with several hardest impacted partners to ensure that
students are prepared to be successful in high school and college.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10455924
- **Project number:** 3R25GM142096-01S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER
- **Principal Investigator:** Liliana Bronner
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $111,812
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-04-25 → 2026-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10455924

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10455924, Encouraging Excellence: Health Science Education in Native American Communities (3R25GM142096-01S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10455924. Licensed CC0.

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