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NU update: Upcoming changes to 2026 university benefits

The University of Nebraska System sent out a message Friday with important information about NU health insurance plans.

Oct 13, 2025

NU Varner Hall

New investigator: Arpan Acharya, PhD

Dr. Acharya is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience.

Oct 13, 2025

Arpan Acharya, PhD

Remembering dentistry professor Myron Pudwill, DDS

Services are today for Dr. Pudwill, who joined the UNMC College of Dentistry faculty in 1967.

Oct 13, 2025

Myron Pudwill, DDS

Parking Services adopts new digital recognition system

With implementation of the license plate recognition technology next week, parking stickers for permits will go away.

Oct 13, 2025

A UNMC Parking Services patrol vehicle with the new license plate reader attached to the roof

UNMC site of mock drill Oct. 17

During the exercise, the public may see activity in and around the Maurer Center for Public Health on the Omaha campus.

Oct 13, 2025

UNMC emblem

Drs. Cochran, Cook honored as 2025 Distinguished Educators

The Interprofessional Academy of Educators’ Distinguished Educator Award is the academy’s highest honor.

Oct 10, 2025

Teresa Cochran, DPT, PhD, and Kristen Cook, PharmD

New investigator: Maher Abdalla, PhD

Dr. Abdalla is an associate professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology.

Oct 10, 2025

Maher Abdalla, PhD

Three blood donation events scheduled for October

Through Dec. 5, all blood drives at UNMC are an opportunity to boost NU’s team in the ‘We Give Blood’ challenge.

Oct 10, 2025

Promotional graphic that says Mobile Blood Drive

UNMC achievements, Oct. 10, 2025

Six nursing faculty honored by Nebraska Nurses Association, and Jianghu Dong, PhD, is honored for outstanding teaching.

Oct 10, 2025

Lynne Buchanan, PhD

New EDGE District parking garage opens in midtown

The 753-space garage is available for daily neighborhood parking following an opening ceremony Wednesday.

Oct 9, 2025

 Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. cuts the ribbon on the new city-owned parking garage in the EDGE District, with UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, at his side. Also in picture are, from left, Omaha City Councilman Danny Begley, Amy Thompson, director of campus development for UNMC, and Jen Bartholomew, assistant vice chancellor of facilities, management and planning for UNMC.