UNO STEM TRAIL Center

The UNO STEM Teaching, Research, and Inquiry-based Learning (TRAIL) Center exists to elevate human potential by creating innovations in formal and informal STEM education. The center synergizes research with educational excellence by providing faculty with ready-built infrastructure for enhancing the broad impacts of their research, building teams to tackle institutional and educational challenges, and cultivating community partners to support UNO’s Carnegie Community Engaged elective classification. Our approach fosters social mobility by building strong STEM employees and engaged citizens. We operationalize the UNO STEM Strategic Plan, which was developed through the work of 65 faculty, staff, and administrators representing all six academic colleges. Working together, we charted a path for the creation of cross-disciplinary support systems and the consolidation of overlapping activity, with a special focus on collaboration rather than competition.