John Keenan

Chancellor’s Oct. 27 forum set for Scottsbluff

Submit questions for the forum through mobile app or UNMC Today.

Oct 17, 2016

UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D.

EMPOWER visits berry farm for fall fundraiser

Annual event will be held at the Bellevue Berry Farm and Pumpkin Ranch on Friday.

Oct 17, 2016

Cannabidiol is topic of Tuesday’s Science Cafe

Deepak Madhavan, M.D., will discuss cannabidiol and its potential clinical use in treating patients suffering from epilepsy.

Oct 17, 2016

HRSA grant will help children in underserved areas

The Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska and the Munroe-Meyer Institute will provide training for clinical counselors to address the behavioral health needs of children.

Oct 17, 2016

Joe Evans, Ph.D., BHECN associate clinical director

Night for Sight celebration set for Oct. 28

“An Evening Unmasking Blindness” is theme for event at Joslyn Art Museum.

Oct 17, 2016

UNeMed honors Dr. Zucker as innovator of year

Collaborators Joyce Solheim, Ph.D., and Tatiana Bronich, Ph.D., also honored, for Most Promising New Invention of 2016.

Oct 17, 2016

Irving Zucker, Ph.D.

First year of IGPBS shows strength of new program

The first class has matriculated into the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences (IGPBS). The silos are falling. Horizons are expanding. Study and experience for Ph.D. students are becoming more and more interdisciplinary. Greater number of faculty are taking on greater roles. “This is the way science is going,” said Karen Gould, Ph.D., associate professor […]

Oct 17, 2016

Daniel Monaghan, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and experimental neuroscience, and Karen Gould, Ph.D., associate professor and vice chair for graduate education, genetics, cell biology and anatomy

Dr. Fey takes his own path to excellence in mentoring

Paul Fey’s lab takes monthly hikes together, “much to the jealousy of the other labs on our floor,” said Cortney Halsey, a graduate research assistant. “We spend an afternoon every month in the outdoors discussing not only our science but a multitude of other topics. It is an activity that has been vital to keeping […]

Oct 17, 2016

Members of Paul Fey, Ph.D.'s lab, take monthly hikes together. Dr. Fey is shown in purple hat.

Ph.D. program spotlight: Environmental Health, Occupational Health & Toxicology

Chandran Achutan, Ph.D., C.I.H.Jonathan Ali is a third year Ph.D. student in Environmental Health, Occupational Health & Toxicology at UNMC. During the course of his studies, which focus on aquatic toxicology, he's been to Chile to explore agricultural runoff. "Our researchers do a lot of lab-based research, but we also do a lot of field […]

Oct 17, 2016