UNMC Today
Campus to celebrate Martin Luther King Day Jan. 17
In what may be the ultimate “family affair,” Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren and Brenda Council – brother and sister – will make a joint presentation Monday, Jan. 17 on the UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center campus to commemorate the 2005 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.
Jan 10, 2005
Commemorating Martin Luther King — part 1 of 6
In commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, UNMC Today will feature a series of photos and quotations from the civil rights leader. In today’s excerpt, King addresses freedom.
Jan 10, 2005
Husband, wife graduate with nursing degrees
Michael and Lesley Leach are two people who take togetherness to a whole new level. The couple raised three children, worked outside jobs and still managed to fulfill their dream of graduating from nursing school at the same time.
Jan 7, 2005
Week-long Workshop to Educate Pre-health Students About Health Professional’s Role in Providing Culturally Competent Health Care
Eighteen college students from six undergraduate schools across Nebraska will spend the first week of January at the University of Nebraska Medical Center learning about the growing diversity in Nebraska and the health professional’s role in providing culturally competent health care. “The workshop will provide a general overview of the growing cultural diversity in […]
Dec 29, 2004
UNMC College of Nursing offers course beginning Jan. 25 on how to manage life with major depression, schizophrenia, manic-depressive illnesses
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing will offer a course titled, “Recovering from Psychosis: A Wellness Approach,” each Tuesday evening from Jan. 25 to April 19, for those with major depression, schizophrenia, manic-depressive illnesses, their family, friends and health care professionals. The course will run from 6:15 to 9:15 p.m. at […]
Dec 28, 2004
UNMC students solicit supplies, donations for medical missions
During the 2005 college spring break, many students will be homeward bound or headed for fun in the sun. But five groups of health science students — members of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Student Alliance for Global Health (SAGH) — will spend spring break on medical missions to clinics in Jamaica, Guatemala, and Nicaragua and South Dakota Sioux Indian communities.
Dec 27, 2004
UNMC hosts infectious disease, microbiology conference
The Omaha Infectious Disease and Microbiology Conference in November was simply an idea whose time had come, according to Phil Smith, M.D., chief, UNMC department of internal medicine-section of infectious disease, and conference director.
Dec 22, 2004
Dr. Deepak Gangahar to leave UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center; will return to Nebraska Heart Institute
Dr. Deepak Gangahar, professor and chief of the thoracic and cardiovascular surgery section in the University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Surgery and a surgeon for The Nebraska Medical Center, will be leaving the medical center on Jan. 9 to return to his former employer, the Nebraska Heart Institute (NHI). Under a provision […]
Dec 22, 2004
Dillard honors UNMC with its own recruiting day
Dillard University has sent no less than five students to UNMC for summer research internships for the past three years. On Oct. 27, the relationship reached a new level when UNMC was granted its own recruiting day – 24 hours in advance of the mass campus recruiting drive that drew representatives from more than 80 colleges and universities to Dillard.
Dec 21, 2004
UNMC lecturers kick off faculty exchange program
UNMC has achieved national recognition for developing formal affiliation agreements with some of the nation’s top undergraduate colleges for African American, Latino and Native American students. In October, Bruce Buehler, M.D., chairman of the department of pediatrics and director, Munroe-Meyer Institute, and Surinder Batra, Ph.D., professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology, kicked off the faculty exchange component with presentations at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga.
Dec 20, 2004