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Staff Advisory Council to honor excellence with staff awards

Nominations are open through April 10 for the new UNMC Staff Awards Program.

Mar 19, 2026

Stacey Coleman, president of the UNMC Staff Advisory Council

Match Day 2026 set for this Friday

UNMC medical students will learn their residency assignments during an event at the Omaha Design Center.

Mar 19, 2026

Push pins on a map to signify where UNMC medical students have achieved their residency assignments

Drs. Wan, Johnson named 2026 Gilmore Award recipients

The award winners will be recognized at today’s UNMC College of Medicine Dean’s Research Symposium.

Mar 19, 2026

Shibiao Wan, PhD, and Tate Johnson, MD, PhD

Cascade will be down this Friday

Web content developers will be notified when they are able to make edits in the content management system.

Mar 19, 2026

UNMC emblem with the words

Kathleen Moore, MD, appointed cancer center’s deputy director

Dr. Moore, a leader in gynecologic oncology, also will serve as director of Phase 1 oncology trials with the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Mar 18, 2026

Kathleen Moore, MD

NU’s NSRI awarded $500 million research contract

The contract continues NSRI and USSTRATCOM’s partnership for deterrence and defense R&D.

Mar 18, 2026

Signage and the Durham Research Center towers as seen from the campus entrance at Saddle Creek Road and Emile Street. Photos from my last photo stroll across campus on Tuesday, July 23, 2024.

Healing Arts to feature ‘Into Whooperland’ exhibition

Michael Forsberg’s photographic expedition with whooping cranes is on display at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Mar 18, 2026

Whooping crane (Grus Americana ), by Michael Forsberg. The whooping crane is the tallest bird in North America and rarest of 15 crane species in the world. Taken on the Texas gulf coast, 2024, archival pigment print.

Dr. Shaffer named pharmacy’s senior associate dean

Chris Shaffer, PharmD, PhD, has long served as a leader within the UNMC College of Pharmacy.

Mar 17, 2026

Chris Shaffer, PharmD, PhD

Elementary students explore ‘Mini Med School’ at UNMC

A visit to the Davis Global Center capped the effort to teach young students about careers in medicine.

Mar 17, 2026

A Holy Name fourth-grade student listens to a mannikin's heartbeat at the Jan. 13 Mini Medical School event.

Register for UNMC’s Administrative Professionals Day

The event will be held April 22 at the Truhlsen Campus Events Center, with a virtual option available.

Mar 17, 2026

Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education exterior