The University of Nebraska Board of Regents will consider several UNMC-related items at its meeting today, including:
- Plans for the new Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, which will house the most advanced eye care and research in the region;
- Funding plans for a land exchange between UNMC and the Omaha Public Power District (OPPD);
- A partnership with OPPD that will help the medical center cut up to 25 percent of its energy costs within 5 years; and
- The merger or dissolution of seven UNMC centers that lack funding or share functions with other campus centers.
Also on Friday, the regents will conduct a listening session regarding the university’s embryonic stem cell research policy, which currently requires the university to follow federal guidelines.
Both UNMC’s student and faculty senates recently passed resolutions that support the university’s current embryonic stem cell research policy.