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Dr. Tom Osborne to speak at UNMC on Feb. 25

Former Nebraska football coach will speak on mentoring and his TeamMates Mentoring Program.

Feb 18, 2016

Nancy and Tom Osbourne

Lookin’ at U – LuAnn Larson

Clinical Research Center manager works with many departments on campus.

Feb 18, 2016

LuAnn Larson

China Scholarship Council and Summer Research Students Publish on BRCA Mutations

China Scholarship Council Ph.D. students and Summer Research Program students publish paper on BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations among mainland Chinese populations.

Feb 18, 2016

Study authors (from the left) San Ming Wang, M.D., Hanwen Zhang, Jian Cui, Bradley Downs, and Yeong Kim, Ph.D. Not pictured: Linli Zhao, Ye Huang, and Fengxia Xiao

News briefs

UNMC students, residents, fellows and faculty gain access to continuing education content from BoardVitals.

Feb 18, 2016

Department Profile — Orthopaedic Surgery

The Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, chaired by Kevin L. Garvin, M.D., includes 85 employees and four collaborative research programs.

Feb 18, 2016

Coming events

The next month brings exciting changes and events, including the Emile Street skywalk opening Feb. 29; a presentation by Thomas Nasca, M.D., CEO of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, on competency-based education on March 10; and Match Day on March 18.

Feb 18, 2016

Research Highlights

UNMC College of Medicine faculty received 14 grant awards representing more than $2 million in new funding in December, including a $500,000 award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to Irving Zucker, Ph.D.

Feb 18, 2016

Irving Zucker, Ph.D.

Contaminated water is a theme for art

College of Public Health, KANEKO team for informative new exhibit.

Feb 17, 2016

Madeline Howell, Alan Kolok, Ph.D., Trang Hoang and Sanjana Ramesh pose in front of the Nebraska Groundwater Well installation on display at KANEKO.

Under the Microscope: The Writing Center @ UNMC

Dr. Gold talks with Cheryl Thompson, Ph.D., assistant vice chancellor for academic and student affairs, about the new writing center.

Feb 17, 2016

Training available for voice recognition software

The software is for use at Nebraska Medicine and UNMC Clinics using One Chart.

Feb 17, 2016