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Change to library hours for members of public

Access available during extended hours with UNMC, Nebraska Medicine or NU ID cards.

Oct 21, 2015

Demo Day highlights UNMC advances

Today’s event, featuring new technologies, inventions and startups, is part of Innovation and Research Week.

Oct 21, 2015

UNeMed President and CEO Michael Dixon, Ph.D.

Mike Feilmeier, M.D., to recieve Junior Chamber International honor

For his humanitarian efforts around the globe Michael Feilmeier, M.D., an ophthalmologist and medical director of the Global Blindness Prevention Division at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Truhlsen Eye Institute, was named a 2015 Junior Chamber International (JCI) Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World recipient in the category of humanitarian and voluntary leadership. […]

Oct 21, 2015

Nursing lectureship Oct. 29, 30 to feature women’s health expert

Her talk will address common gaps in the care of women during the extended postpartum year and needs that affect maternal health and well-being both short and long-term.

Oct 21, 2015

LiveGreen: Greenwashing

Claims of “green” practices or services aren’t always true blue.

Oct 20, 2015

New UNMC students participate in ceremonies to mark beginning of careers

Students enrolled in medicine, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry, allied health, and graduate studies participate in ceremonies

Oct 20, 2015

UNMC Alumni Association recognizes five health professionals with awards

More than 350 attend reunion for colleges of medicine, nursing and pharmacy

Oct 20, 2015

Phil Smith, M.D., was one of the five people honored at this year's UNMC Alumni Reunion.

UNMC gets cancer research training grant renewal

For seven weeks in 2014, Jennifer Black, Ph.D., was all about grant-writing. Seven hundred pages later, Dr. Black, the Eppley Institute and UNMC had been awarded a renewal of their longstanding National Cancer Institute “Cancer Biology Training Program” T32 Grant — an award to support the nation’s best graduate students in the field of cancer […]

Oct 20, 2015

Jennifer Black, Ph.D.

Catching up with: Srustidhar Das, Ph.D.

In May, Srustihdhar Das, Ph.D., was the recipient of the 2015 Thomas Jefferson Ingenuity Award. Graduate Posts caught up with Dr. Das, who is now a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Eduardo Villablanca in the Translational Immunology Unit at the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, to talk to him about his post-UNMC career. You now […]

Oct 20, 2015

From left, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Dele Davies, Srustidhar Das, Ph.D., and Surinder Batra, Ph.D.

First transferable skills workshop highlights writing

G. Travis Adams, Ph.D., opened up his dissertation again about a week after submitting it. Flipping through it, he found a note in brackets — to himself. “Hey, summarize this,” Dr. Adams had written to himself — and then submitted and defended the dissertation, leaving the note in the text. “Did I still get my […]

Oct 20, 2015

G. Travis Adams, Ph.D., assistant professor of English at UNO and the director of the UNO Writing Center, spoke at UNMC earlier this month.