Cheryl Dunn
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club ContributorI grew up in Hays, Kansas where my dad was a social worker and my mom worked at our university’s library. My dad’s family farmed in Kansas near Walton, and my mom’s family were farmers in Virginia. I stayed in Hays to get my biology degrees at Fort Hays State University, met my husband in graduate school and almost 12 years later we have two daughters. My husband works at the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and I am the research manager-herbarium curator for the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Specifically, I work in the range, pasture, and forages group doing research, teaching, and curating. Both my husband and I are biologists, so we love everything outdoors and nerdy. We are determined for our kids to know plants, worms, birds, etc., so we do any activity that encourages this. We also love reading and having the occasional movie night.
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Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club.The book Running with Sherman by Christopher McDougall was for the most part a very light-hearted book that was easy to sit and enjoy. I would caution you that Chapter 17 does go into some very dark material related to suicide and depression, but it provides you with an understanding that I hadn’t thought about. -
Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club.The book Bewilderment by Richard Powers was one that I just couldn’t get through. I picked it up multiple times and would read several pages and then would have to put it down again. -
Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club.I think we forget sometimes that art and science can so easily go hand in hand. Since the times of Darwin, scientific writing has gotten more and more strict in how one needs to disseminate information. Gone are the days of a little more creative writing with science mixed into it – that is until you get to a book like Braiding Sweetgrass. -
Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club. As someone who has the joyous job of teaching young adult plants, the book Braiding Sweetgrass really spoke to that connection to the plant world that I try to give my students. -
Hello! I’m Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, NE for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club. I’m the Research Manager-Herbarium Curator at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and I have the pleasure of being your Leader for the book Braiding Sweetgrass which the author Robin Wall Kimmerer weaves a beautiful story of connecting with the land and giving back to it what you take from it, also known as reciprocity. -
Hello! My name is Cheryl Dunn in Lincoln, Nebraska, for HPPR’s Radio Readers Fall Book Club.Our first book is the nonfiction Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer which is an intriguing book that braids together indigenous traditions (specifically Potawatomi heritage), science, and really delves into the author’s botany profession.
