Katelyn Ideus, MA

Katelyn Ideus is Director of Communications & Public Relations for the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska, the DOD-designated University Affiliated Research Center sponsored by U.S. Strategic Command.

In her role, Ideus guides and executes NSRI's strategic communications, producing, stimulating and delivering stories and information about NSRI and NU scientists and strategists as well as the innovations they create and the solutions they find in pursuit of strategic deterrence and countering weapons of mass destruction. Key deliverables include but are not limited to:

• nsri.nebraska.edu
• 2022 biennial report
• 2020 biennial report
• #NSRI10 campaign celebrating a decade of the institute in fall 2022
• Numerous videos

Ideus previously led communications for the Rural Futures Institute at the University of Nebraska and the University of Nebraska’s online education initiatives. She has also worked in internal communications at Nelnet, Inc., and as a physician communications specialist for Cardinal Glennon Children's Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo., engaging St. Louis University faculty physicians and community hospitals and physicians.

Ideus holds a master’s degree in integrated media communications and a bachelor’s degree in news editorial and broadcast journalism, both from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Journalism & Mass Communications.