Start Early. Start Well.
January 24, 2022
By Erin Duffy As a nurse in an Omaha hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit, Morgan Staver witnessed just how difficult a sick baby’s prolonged hospital sta... More
January 13, 2022
The Buffett Early Childhood Institute has named Dalhia Lloyd as associate director of professional learning. Lloyd will oversee the implementation of multi-modal l... More
January 06, 2022
Mariah Stowe, owner of Splash of Color Child Care in Lincoln, with an infant in her care. A new report from the Buffett Institute presents ideas for how to use federal fu... More
December 17, 2021
Omaha, Neb. – Kate Gallagher, director of research and evaluation at the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, has been presented with the 2021 Nebraska Head Start Sta... More
December 09, 2021
Veteran Educator Has Served in a Variety of Roles at the Institute Omaha, Neb. — The Buffett Institute at the University of Nebraska has appointed Amy Schmidtke as... More
October 22, 2021
2020–21 Evaluation Shows Gains Despite Ongoing Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Omaha, Neb. — The Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan continued to make positive gains... More
September 27, 2021
101 Nebraska Communities, 28 States to Participate Omaha, Neb. — More than 750 civic, business, education, health care, and political leaders from across 101 Ne... More
September 21, 2021
By Erin Duffy There’s a social theory called the “curb cut effect.” During the nascent disability rights movement in the 1970s, activists ... More
September 09, 2021
Rosemarie Allen, whose career in the early childhood field has spanned four decades, has plenty of experiences and hard lessons learned to share with attendees at the 202... More
The Institute's learning tour began last week with a visit to 11 Lincoln child care professionals. Here, Traci Bergt holds a child at Kelly's Kids Learning and Deve... More