Multimedia Stories
Displaying Innovation
Told in videos, pictures, text and even a gif or two, these stories depict UNMC's innovation in research, education, patient care and community engagement.
Finding Hannah's Voice
Each spoken word is a triumph when childhood apraxia traps them inside. The UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute’s RiteCare Clinic in Hastings is teaching a 5-year-old girl the speech skills to match her outgoing personality – and highlighting the importance of that therapy to central and western Nebraska.
Making His Own Luck
A man named St. Patrick is bound to be lucky. And UNMC’s St. Patrick Reid, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and microbiology, readily admits that he has been a lucky man.
Closing the Language Gap
Our researchers know equitable access to health care is essential, and they are working to increase diversity in clinical trials. Read this special dual-language report on the experience of one non-English-speaking participant of an oncology clinical trial.
Learning in 3D
See how Jennifer Cera, DNP, and the iEXCEL visualization team are advancing medical education and women's health through 3D animation of the female anatomy.
Combatting Anxiety With Innovation
Anxiety among patients considering deep brain stimulation surgery is common, but now UNMC innovators are using simulation and 3D printing to both screen and prepare patients for a surgery in which they remain awake.
Hitting New Strides
Munroe-Meyer Institute's intensive therapies are keeping 3-year-old Bentley Hinrichs on his toes. MMI therapists crafted a top-down therapy model for Bentley that his parents say is unlike any they’ve seen.
Women Empowering Women
Nine women in leadership roles at UNMC talk about shaping health care, working through their own struggles and sharing what they've learned to help others succeed.
The Long Walk Home
UNMC is at the precipice of earth-shattering developments in the fight against HIV. We are at that place thanks in large part to a brilliant chemist, whose impact may yet reach back to where he took his journey’s first steps.
2020: The Front Line
When the United States government called upon UNMC and Nebraska Medicine to help American citizens during the pandemic, they responded–just as they did in 2014 when they cared for patients with Ebola in the National Biocontainment Unit. This time, the med center helped monitor – at Camp Ashland – 57 Americans who had been working in the Wuhan area of China, where the virus was first reported.
On the Road Again
Rural first responders are "hungry" for emergency training. Here's how UNMC's SIM-NE is coming to the rescue.
Scout's Honor
Dr. Kevin Hanna has dedicated his new career to helping others, thanks in part to a traumatic experience he and his fellow Boy Scouts went through, when he was only 13.
A Lifetime Alliance
Bob and Brianna met while enrolled in UNMC’s health sciences pipeline program for high school students, bringing a new meaning to match day at UNMC.
Chicken Soup for UNMC's Soul
A feel-good study by one of UNMC’s top researchers has proven to be comfort food for the media for nearly 30 years. Several years ago, Stephen Rennard, MD, one of UNMC’s top scientists, decided it would be fun to put the old folk wisdom about chicken soup to the test.