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UNMC Chancellor Earns Lifetime Achievement Award from National Children’s Oncology Group
Harold M. Maurer, M.D., chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Childrens Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute-supported clinical cooperative cancer treatment and research group. Im tremendously honored and humbled, Dr. Maurer said. To get a Lifetime Achievement Award from all of […]
Mar 7, 2003
UNMC second quarter research grants total $10 million
The University of Nebraska Medical Center received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03. The second quarter includes the months of October, November and December. We are pleased with the continuing growth of the research enterprise. said Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research for UNMC. The apparent […]
Mar 6, 2003
UNMC, UNL researchers hope to become experts in little known organism that could be used as bioweapon
Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are collaborating on a $100,000 pilot study to conduct basic research on Francisella tularensis an organism that if used as a bioweapon, can cause tularemia, a potentially fatal disease. The project is supported by the University of Nebraska and Tobacco Settlement Funds […]
Mar 5, 2003
UNMC second quarter research grants total $10 million
UNMC received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03. The second quarter includes the months of October, November and December.
Mar 3, 2003
Play examines domination, oppression — part 4 of 4
Today’s performance of “Let My People Go: Trials of Bondage in Words of Master and Slave” is about history, not just black history, but racial and sexist domination and oppression, says Valda Boyd Ford, director of UNMC/NHS Community and Multicultural Affairs. The free performance begins at 11:30 a.m. in the College of Nursing’s Cooper Auditorium.
Feb 28, 2003
James Armitage, M.D., resigns as UNMC College of Medicine dean will focus efforts on education, research, patient care at UNMC
James O. Armitage, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in the research and treatment of lymphoma, has resigned as dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, effective Sept. 1. He plans to stay at UNMC, focusing his efforts on medical students and his clinical and research interests. I have held […]
Feb 28, 2003
UNMC College of Pharmacy Students Earn Dean’s List Honors
Fifty-two students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy were named to the dean’s list following the fall semester 2002. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must place in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above. The students that qualified for […]
Feb 28, 2003
UNMC maintains path towards $100 million in annual research funding around 2005; UNMC Second Quarter Research Grants Total $10 Million
The University of Nebraska Medical Center received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03, which includes the months of October, November and December. We are pleased with the continuing growth of the research enterprise. said Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research for UNMC. The apparent drop-off in […]
Feb 28, 2003
Understanding life as a slave — part 3 of 4
‘But for the hope of being free,’ Frederick Douglass once said, ‘I have no doubt but that I should have killed myself.” To better understand the long-term trauma of slavery, see Friday’s play “Let My People Go: Trials of Bondage in Words of Master and Slave.”
Feb 27, 2003
Dramatic readings, poetry highlight Black History month
With soft lighting and low-key, live jazz music, the poets of “Spoken Word” entertained more than 60 people Feb. 20 during the second UNMC/NHS Black History Month event.
Feb 26, 2003