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Million-step Monday — Upper Peninsula pedometer!



























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Rita Mansfield with her pedometer in Mackinac Island, Mich.


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Mansfield at Old Mission Point in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.


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Mansfield at Tahquamenon Falls.


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Mansfield at home in Nebraska enjoying a day of air boating on the Platte River.

Rita Mansfield, a project associate in the UNMC Health Professions Tracking Center, modeled her pedometer for some pictures during her recent vacation in the scenic Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Mansfield and her pedometer visited Sturgeon Bay, Mackinac Island, the Soo Locks, Tahquamenon Falls and Traverse City.

Here trip also included stops at the Ford Museum and Greenfield Village in Detroit.

“We had a great time,” Mansfield said. “The weather was fabulous and scenery beautiful. We also had a few strange looks from people wondering why anyone would want a picture of someone pointing to a pedometer.”

Mansfield also had time to do a little air boating on the Platte River and brought her pedometer along for that trip, too.

Where have you and your pedometer gone recently? Send photos of you and your pedometers in interesting places to today@unmc.edu and we’ll run them in UNMC Today.

The following is a list of UNMC employees who have recently reached one of the 250,000-step markers in the 1 Million Step Challenge. Send an e-mail to today@unmc.edu with your name, department and tell us what step milestone you reached and we’ll post it on the list.

250,000 steps

  • Kathie Bickerstaff, psychiatry
  • Patricia Hageman, Ph.D., physical therapy education
  • Kate Hansen, epidemiology
  • Dennis Harris, behavioral risk factor surveillance
  • Janet Herde, sponsored programs accounting
  • Kelli Novak, human genetics
  • Susan Siebler, orthopaedic surgery







Prizes and step list clarification



To collect prizes for milestones reached, send the corresponding yellow coupons to Jayme Nekuda at campus zip code 5530.

Sending your coupons to Nekuda, however, doesn’t mean your name will be included on the UNMC Today list of step milestones. To be included on the list, please submit your name, department and milestone reached to today@unmc.edu.

We apologize for any confusion this may cause but we also understand some participating in the 1 Million Step Challenge may not want their names publicized.



500,000 steps

  • Kathy Austin, ophthalmology and visual sciences
  • Lori Fuller, printing services
  • Deanna Hansen, internal medicine
  • Virginia Helget, Center for Biopreparedness Education
  • Fran Higgins, School of Allied Health Professions
  • Kohei Homma, pathology and microbiology
  • Karen Kassel, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
  • Amy Lussetto, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
  • Prasad R. Padala, M.D., psychiatry
  • Michelle Parks, College of Pharmacy Dean’s Office
  • Mary Jo Ramirez, College of Pharmacy Student Services
  • Nancy Schulte, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
  • Bev Shaver, Clinical Research Center
  • Robin Taylor, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
  • Eric White, printing services

750,000 steps

  • Michael Jacobsen, pharmacology and experimental neuroscience
  • Leslie Leake, psychiatry
  • Kathy Minikus, health services research and administration
  • M. A. Ray, physical therapy education
  • Denise Wessling, facilities management and planning

1 million steps

  • Greg McFadden, Health Professions Tracking Center