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LiveGreen: Sustainability Master Plan update III

Progress updates in material and transportation.

May 24, 2016

The transportation goal is to have 20 percent of campus employees and students commuting to campus via active transportation, such as biking, instead of using single occupant vehicles.

Professional development classes graduate

More than 100 UNMC professionals completed Foundations for Success and The Management Series in May.

May 24, 2016

Graduates from the Foundations for Success program

Insights: 2016 Heart Walk a great cause

UNMC and Nebraska Medicine teams participate to support research into heart disease.

May 24, 2016

Med center offering tobacco cessation classes

Programs begin in June, and registration is required.

May 24, 2016

Nebraska Medicine, UNMC offer new service for sickle cell disease patients

The medical center recently began offering the state’s first pediatric chronic red cell blood exchange in conjunction with the American Red Cross.

May 24, 2016

COM employee spotlight

Galen Kathol, director of the dean’s business office, recalls watching the construction of Wittson Hall while he was a young patient at University Hospital.

May 24, 2016

COM student of the month

Robbie Garvin, a third-year medical student, balances work and studies with fatherhood and playing bass in a bluegrass band.

May 24, 2016

A message from the dean

On May 25, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved our request to establish a Department of Dermatology in the UNMC College of Medicine.

May 24, 2016

Federal grant program hits the road

“Road show” will help researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs learn about federal funding opportunities.

May 23, 2016

Med Center’s Project Search class graduates

Job offers follow interns in vocational training program.

May 23, 2016

From left, job coach Angel Brooks of VODEC, Scott Stauder, David Elafros, Garrett Daeges, Lily Symens, Kasey Teachman, William Jackson and Project Search instructor Chris Miller.