Karen Burbach

Blogging from BIO

A team from UNMC is at the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) Convention in Boston this week. … Click here to read blog entries from the UNMC group at BIO and click here to visit the BIO convention Web site.

May 8, 2007

Navy nurse corps leader visits UNMC

Rear Adm. Karen Flaherty made her first visit to Nebraska last week to celebrate Omaha Navy Week. During her trip, she stopped at UNMC to discuss nursing and tour the nation’s largest biocontainment unit.

May 7, 2007

Regional response team tours UNMC

Thirty members of the Region 7 Regional Response Team toured the biocontainment unit and the Nebraska Public Health Laboratory biosecurity lab at UNMC last week.

May 7, 2007

Season tickets available for 2007-08 UNO hockey

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) has announced that 2007-08 season tickets for men’s hockey are available — with some important changes from last year’s offering.

May 4, 2007

Increase in term life insurance notice

A note from NU Central Administration about increases in term life insurance.

May 3, 2007

Two days remain to sign final Sorrell Center beam

Students and employees have until the end of Friday to stop by the street behind the College of Pharmacy and sign the final beam for the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.

May 3, 2007

Dr. Miloro named to national oral and maxillofacial surgery board

UNMC’s Michael Miloro, D.M.D., M.D., recently was elected to serve on the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (ABOMS) examination committee for a seven-year term.

May 3, 2007

Climbing to world-class heights

UNMC is gaining altitude in its climb to world-class status.”We’re not at the top, but we’re on the right trajectory and gaining ground,” UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., said last Tuesday during his annual state-of-the-campus report at the Annual Faculty Meeting. “I’m really proud of the faculty and staff who are making this happen.”

May 2, 2007

Up close with the Durham Western Heritage Museum

Standing Bear, Lewis and Clark, Byron Reed and Louis Bostwick are just a few of history’s notable figures who have found a new and improved home at the Durham Western Heritage Museum. … Join the museum’s Executive Director, Leo Smith, for an in-depth look at where the museum is headed and what it takes to get there on Thursday, May 10 at noon in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.

May 2, 2007

Plate painters needed for Arts for Hearts show

Painters are being sought to contribute to the sixth annual Arts for Hearts Art Show and Silent Auction. The event, which is sponsored by the C. Louis Meyer Foundation, will be held in the Durham Outpatient Center’s Central Atrium (second floor of the outpatient center near the gift shop) on Wednesday, May 9 from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Thursday, May 10 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

May 1, 2007