Karen Burbach
ITS reminds staff to abide by all copyright laws
ITS reminds UNMC faculty, staff and students to abide by all copyright laws. Everyone knows what this looks like using the traditional copy machine, but have you thought about the implications of illegally downloading or copying music files, photographs, software and movies electronically? These also are copyright violations.
Sep 16, 2004
UNMC attracts ‘best and brightest’
More students are attending UNMC this fall, and the incoming students are of exceptional quality, the campus’s chief academic officer said today. This fall, 2,904 students are enrolled at UNMC, an increase of 39 students (1.4 percent) from fall 2003.
Sep 16, 2004
An IRB message – compensating research subjects
Continuing education of the research community is a very important function of the UNMC Institutional Review Board (IRB). Once a month, topics of interest will appear in the UNMC Today. Today’s topic examines compensation for subjects enrolled in research studies.
Sep 15, 2004
Radiation Sciences students receive symbolic pin
On Sunday, 40 students in UNMC’s Division of Radiation Science Technology Education received a button-sized, circular, red pin during the division’s annual pinning ceremony.
Sep 15, 2004
McGoogan Library introduces new resources
The McGoogan Library of Medicine is promoting four new resources that will benefit UNMC faculty, staff and students. The resources — ScienceDirect Backfiles, Exam Master, FIRSTConsult and images.MD – respectively provide online access to past journal articles, online tests capabilities, clinical diagnosis information and downloadable medical images.
Sep 13, 2004
Teens participate in health career workshop
Nineteen 11th- and 12th-graders from throughout Nebraska participated in the Summer Health Professions Career Workshop last month at UNMC.
Sep 10, 2004
NU president sends message to employees
Read a message from University of Nebraska President James B. (“J.B.”) Milliken, J.D. Milliken took office as president of the University of Nebraska on Aug. 1.
Sep 10, 2004
HHS director visits medical center
Nancy Montanez, director of the Nebraska Health and Human Services System, got a first-hand glimpse of the da Vinci surgical system during her Sept. 2 visit to UNMC.
Sep 9, 2004
Nominations sought for university-wide awards
The University of Nebraska Central Administration has announced nominating procedures and deadlines for five university awards – the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award, the University-wide Departmental Teaching Award, the Peter Kiewit Student Entrepreneurial Award and the Walter Scott Entrepreneurial Business Award.
Sep 8, 2004
UNMC blood drive scheduled for Sept. 23
About every two seconds, someone in the United States needs a blood transfusion. On Thursday, Sept. 23, employees at UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, will have the opportunity to give blood so that others may have the opportunity to live.
Sep 8, 2004