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Nine UNMC students to spend spring break on medical mission to Nicaragua
Nine UNMC students, including seven from the College of Medicine, one from the Physician Assistant Education program and one from the College of Nursing, will spend March 16-23 in Nicaragua. The students will participate in community public health activities in impoverished neighborhoods in Managua, the capital city, under the auspices of the physicians of Los Chavalitos Maternal-Child Health Clinic.
Mar 11, 2002
From slave to saint: St. Patrick’s Day commemorates a remarkable man
March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. While the immediate image that comes to mind may be of parades, wearing green and eating and drinking at the nearest pub, there really was a St. Patrick and his life bears remembering.
Mar 11, 2002
Jan Atwood, Ph.D., UNMC College of Nursing, receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Midwest Nursing Research Society
Jan Atwood, Ph.D., of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing, recently received the Midwest Nursing Research Societys Lifetime Achievement Award at the societys annual conference in Chicago. The Midwest Nursing Research Society, which covers a 13-state region, has more than 1,400 members. For 20 years, it has been promoting the growth of […]
Mar 8, 2002
UNMC College of Dentistry Builds Dental Research Program
UNMC cell biologists love of discovery Helps Build UNMCs Dental Research Program, Find Answers to Oral cancer The tenth floor of the Lied Transplant Center on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus in Omaha, is like a second home for UNMC cell biologists, Margaret Wheelock, Ph.D., and Keith Johnson, Ph.D. The couple, who is […]
Mar 8, 2002
MMI’s Godfrey conducts genetics seminar for junior high scholars
Last month, 10 ninth-graders from LaVista Junior High School’s High Ability Learner program attended a seminar on genetics at UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute. It was the second consecutive year Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics at the Center for Human Molecular Genetics, held the workshop for LaVista scholars.
Mar 7, 2002
No More Cavities in 10 Years?
Reality of Cavity-free Society to be Addressed at UNMC College of Dentistrys Annual Professionals Day March 22 The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry in Lincoln will host its 16th Annual Professionals Day and 35th Annual Student Scientific Program on Friday, March 22 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event celebrates scholarly […]
Mar 6, 2002
John Reinhardt, D.D.S., Dean of UNMC College of Dentistry Receives National Award of Excellence From Peers
John Reinhardt, D.D.S., dean of the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry, recently received the Award of Excellence from the Academy of Operative Dentistry at its annual meeting in Chicago. The award, presented annually since 1986, recognizes recipients for their service to the academy, free-sharing and innovative ideas in the teaching of operative […]
Mar 5, 2002
UNMC College of Nursing, 25 Nebraska Hospitals, including Mayo Clinic, to Host Open House, Job Fair for those interested in Nursing
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing and Omaha and Lincoln chapters of the Nebraska Student Nurse Association, will host an open house and job fair on Saturday, March 9, from noon to 2 p.m. The event is targeted toward those interested in learning about nursing careers, advanced nursing degrees and available jobs […]
Mar 4, 2002
Armenian nurses find a home away from home at UNMC
Although they had never been to Nebraska, traveling to the University of Nebraska Medical Center last month was a virtual homecoming for five graduate nurses from the Republic of Armenia.
Kristina Khueshudyan, Greta Khachatzyan, Marianna Barseghyan, Maya Simonyan and Roza Khachatzyan have taken a graduate course from UNMC. They were the first students at Armenia’s Erebouni State Medical College to graduate with bachelor of science degrees in nursing — the very program Ada Lindsey, Ph.D, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing, helped create while she was dean of the University of California Los Angeles School of Nursing.
Mar 1, 2002
UNMC Seeking 18 Participants for Study Involving New Anti-depressant
The University of Nebraska Medical Center is seeking 18 adults age 65 and older who are experiencing depression to participate in a study examining a new anti-depressant. Unlike other anti-depressants, which work by increasing serotonin or norepinephrine in the brain, the new drug works in a different location in the nervous system, said William Burke, […]
Mar 1, 2002