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Cancer center artist to visit UNMC
Mary Whyte, whose artwork is featured in the gallery at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, will hold classes, give presentation.
Sep 21, 2017
Under the microscope: Nursing licensure exam results
Dr. Gold talks with Louise LaFramboise, Ph.D., director of the College of Nursing Baccalaureate Program. Recent UNMC nursing graduates achieved a 96 percent first-attempt pass rate on the National Council Licensure Examination or NCLEX.
Sep 21, 2017
Informational meetings set for Sept. 26-27 for e-learning program
Faculty, students interested in developing next series of e-learning modules invited to attend.
Sep 21, 2017
Koll Awarded 2017 Great Plains IDeA-CTR Pilot Grant
Thuy Koll, MD, assistant professor, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, was awarded the 2017 Great Plains IDeA-CTR Pilot grant. Funding for the grant is $50,000 for one year.
Sep 21, 2017
Poole Receives Eugene Kenney Memorial Fund for Asthma Research
Jill Poole, MD, associate professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, is the recipient of the Eugene Kenney Memorial Fund for Asthma Research for the 2017-2018 award.
Sep 21, 2017
Rapport with patients spurred med student’s match
Jacob Wardyn began to notice something during his med school years. In his first clinical experience, during his first year as a medical student, a patient came out to him. In his second clinical experience, a patient told him he was an alcoholic, and finally wanted help. Staff had been waiting and hoping for a […]
Sep 20, 2017
O’Malley Trust Gift Endows Allied Health Scholarship Program
The Charles R. O'Malley Charitable Lead Trust, as part of the University of Nebraska “Our Students, Our Future” Initiative, has given a gift to the College of Allied Health Professions that has the potential to be the largest in the college's history. The gift includes both outright funds and the pledge of matching funds to […]
Sep 20, 2017
Parkinson’s disease may have met it’s match
Instead of discovering an entirely new drug for a disease, researchers sometimes find that an existing drug can have positive effects on a different disease. That’s what UNMC researchers did. In a breakthrough discovery, they found that an existing chemotherapy drug may have restorative, even curative, effects on Parkinson’s disease (PD) – a disease that […]
Sep 20, 2017
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think
If you open your mind, Oh, the thinks you will find Lining up to get loose! For the second year in a row, Camp Munroe Theater Company participants, ages 6 to 25, delighted an audience with a summer theater production – "Oh, the Thinks You Can Think." Yes, think – think right over the brink. […]
Sep 20, 2017
Compound May Offer New Deterrent To Mosquitoes
Mosquitoes buzz, bite, suck our blood, make us itch and worst of all spread serious, even deadly diseases, like chikungunya, dengue, malaria, yellow fever and Zika. And if that isn't enough? "A lot of people don't realize that mosquitoes have kidneys, and when they take a blood meal from you they also urinate on you […]
Sep 20, 2017
