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HLC approves joint accreditation for UNL and UNMC

President Gold: Higher Learning Commission approval earlier this week ‘an important step.’

Nov 14, 2025

UNMC campus sign

Regent Schafer visits UNMC for Project Health update

The regent also visited the Innovation Design Unit and toured the Catalyst Building in the EDGE District.

Nov 14, 2025

NU Regent Robert Schafer looks at the Project Health construction site from an overlook at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and Andrew Balus (at right), UNMC’s executive director of utilities and engineering, updated Schafer on the project.

UNMC researchers publish findings on herpes simplex virus

The team determined the structure of the helicase-primase complex, offering a target for future antiviral therapies.

Nov 14, 2025

Tahir Tahirov, PhD

Fire in Durham Research Center laboratory is contained

Officials are assessing the damage, and remediation efforts will be taking place.

Nov 14, 2025

The Durham Research Center towers

Trees to be removed as part of ongoing construction

The removal involves an area north of the Durham Research Center, making way for a portion of Project Health.

Nov 14, 2025

UNMC emblem

Hemant Roy, MD, announced as internal medicine chair

Dr. Roy, currently at Ben Taub Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, is a former UNMC faculty member with demonstrated expertise.

Nov 14, 2025

Hemant Roy, MD

CS-CASH announces pilot grants to protect ag workers

The research teams will conduct studies to address occupational health challenges faced by rural and aging farm populations.

Nov 14, 2025

Eleanor Rogan, PhD

Today is the deadline for NUFlex Benefits Enrollment

Employees can review their current benefit elections and make changes for 2026 during this enrollment period.

Nov 14, 2025

Graphic that says annual NUFlex Benefits Enrollment

UNMC for the record, Nov. 14, 2025

Images of fall on campus, a film event at Catalyst and a new seminar series.

Nov 14, 2025

Fall trees on the UNMC Omaha campus, as taken by a drone camera

UNMC leaders discuss industry engagement efforts

UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, featured Ken Bayles, PhD, vice chancellor for research, at November’s campus forum.

Nov 13, 2025

Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and Ken Bayles, PhD, UNMC vice chancellor for research