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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

The Charles R. O'Malley Charitable Lead Trust has pledged a transformative gift to endow scholarship funds for students in the College of Allied Health Professions.

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

The three key people on the Phase 1 clinical trial were (from left) Howard Gendelman, M.D., Pamela Santamaria, M.D., and R. Lee Mosley, Ph.D.

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

Campers celebrate at the grand finale of the production.

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

SIM-NE Trucks in a Rural Town Near You

Medical emergencies require the response of highly trained health professionals. Now, four high-tech rolling classrooms deliver training free to emergency medical service agencies and critical access hospitals in every corner of Nebraska. In June, Simulation in Motion Nebraska trucks (SIM-NE) were sent to four cities – Kearney, Norfolk, Lincoln and Scottsbluff – to provide real-life […]

Sep 20, 2017