John Keenan

Sexperts will be in Lincoln Oct. 27 for Science Cafe

Members of the Midlands Sexual Health Research Collaborative will give presentation, field questions.

Oct 21, 2015

Sofia Jawed-Wessel, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Annual International Week set for November

A week of events will celebrate diversity at UNMC.

Oct 21, 2015

LiveGreen: Greenwashing

Claims of “green” practices or services aren’t always true blue.

Oct 20, 2015

iEXCEL Expo: The future of health care education

Expo is part of Innovation and Research Week.

Oct 20, 2015

Artist Chihuly provides installation for cancer center

Dale Chihuly, one of the world’s foremost artists working in glass, will feature his work at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.

Oct 20, 2015

Engagement survey results forum set for Wednesday

The 10 a.m. presentation will be held at the College of Public Health.

Oct 20, 2015

Speaker describes childhood during the Holocaust

Omaha business leader Milt Kleinberg will speak on “Bread or Death: Memories of my Childhood during and after the Holocaust.”

Oct 20, 2015

First transferable skills workshop highlights writing

G. Travis Adams, Ph.D., opened up his dissertation again about a week after submitting it. Flipping through it, he found a note in brackets — to himself. “Hey, summarize this,” Dr. Adams had written to himself — and then submitted and defended the dissertation, leaving the note in the text. “Did I still get my […]

Oct 20, 2015

G. Travis Adams, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at UNO and the director of the UNO Writing Center, spoke at UNMC earlier this month.

Catching up with: Srustidhar Das, Ph.D.

In May, Srustihdhar Das, Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award. Graduate Posts caught up with Dr. Das, who is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Eduardo Villablanca in the Translational Immunology Unit at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, to talk to him about his post-UNMC career. You now […]

Oct 20, 2015

From left, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dele Davies, Srustidhar Das, Ph.D., and Surinder Batra, Ph.D.

UNMC gets cancer research training grant renewal

For seven weeks in 2014, Jennifer Black, Ph.D., was all about grant-writing. Seven hundred pages later, Dr. Black, the Eppley Institute and UNMC had been awarded a renewal of their longstanding National Cancer Institute “Cancer Biology Training Program” T32 Grant — an award to support the nation’s best graduate students in the field of cancer […]

Oct 20, 2015

Jennifer Black, Ph.D.