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UNMC to offer new nursing scholarships at Scottsbluff, Kearney, Norfolk

Applications are open, and 30 full cost-of-education scholarships will be awarded over two years.

Mar 5, 2026

Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, DNP, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing

Listening sessions on next UNMC chancellor set for today

Faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend two sessions that will be held in the Sorrell Center on the UNMC Omaha campus.

Mar 5, 2026

The Sorrell Center, Room 1005, is the location for two listening sessions on Thursday, March 5. 

Impact in Education: Nancy Krusen, PhD

Dr. Krusen is a professor of occupational therapy in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions.

Mar 5, 2026

Nancy Krusen, PhD

Employee appreciation event will honor UNMC ‘superheroes’

The ‘Superheroes Among Us’ event will be held in the Truhlsen Campus Events Center today from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Mar 5, 2026

UNMC emblem

Utility digging to start Monday

The work, which is connected to Project Health, will take place on the east side of the UNMC Omaha campus.

Mar 5, 2026

UNMC emblem with the words

Two new leaders named in research operations

Katie Penas takes on a shared leadership role between UNMC and Nebraska Medicine, while Ellen Kerns, PhD, is scientific director of the READi Core.

Mar 4, 2026

Katie Penas and Ellen Kerns, PhD

Impact in Education: Alfred Fisher, MD, PhD

Dr. Fisher is a professor and chief of the UNMC Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology and Palliative Medicine.

Mar 4, 2026

Alfred Fisher, MD, PhD

UNMC anesthesiology research climbs national rankings

The department has advanced a vision to strengthen research excellence alongside clinical and educational missions.

Mar 4, 2026

Hanjun Wang, MD, vice chair of research in the department of anesthesiology, in his lab with research technician Reese Wilcox

Bennington clinic opens a new chapter in neighborhood care

Bennington Health Center opens next week, offering families northwest of the Omaha metro convenient access to primary care. 

Mar 4, 2026

Nebraska Medicine officials and Bennington Mayor Clint Adams cut the ribbon on the new Nebraska Medicine-Bennington Health Center.

Tissue engineering conference set for April 17 at UNMC

The event is sponsored by the Great Plains IDeA-CTR Network.

Mar 4, 2026

Graphic showing a DNA double helix over a Nebraska setting that says Great Plains IDeA-CTR Network