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UNMC establishes Nebraska’s first physical medicine, rehabilitation department

Department, partnership with Madonna address critical gap in post-acute care in Midwest

Jun 16, 2015

A rendering of the Madonna rehab and long-term care hospital at Village Pointe in Omaha, set to open in 2016. It will serve as the primary training site for a UNMC-supported residency program in physical medicine and rehabilitation.

A hoot of a time

Registration opens for July 11 Owl Ride.

Jun 15, 2015

Jill Poole, M.D.

Caregiver strain focus of June 22 Science Cafe in Lincoln

Joan Harvey and Mary Christensen, DNP, both instructors in the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing Lincoln Division, will discuss caregiver strain at the next Lincoln Science Café at 7 p.m. on Monday, June 22, at VEGA, 350 Canopy St. in Lincoln. Harvey will discuss current research looking at the effect of caring […]

Jun 15, 2015

Convocation: ‘Wouldn’t have missed this for the world’

The railway cars that line the first floor of the Durham Museum never move, but they have become a familiar backdrop as the graduates of UNMC Graduate Studies begin their own journeys. For the third time in two years, the Durham Museum was the setting as Ph.D. and M.S. graduates, joined by their beaming mentors, […]

Jun 15, 2015

Mark Shepherd, Ph.D., left, and mentor Chandran Achutan, Ph.D.

Dr. Kielian is Distinguished Graduate Student Mentor

Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., Kommineni Professor of Pathology, is the type of mentor whose words stick with you, even years later. “One funny story is that at a recent meeting, one of my former students told me that while she was working on her poster she heard my voice inside her head saying that the font […]

Jun 15, 2015

Tammy Kielian, Ph.D., center, received her award at the 2015 graduate studies convocation ceremony from Dele Davies, M.D., dean of graduate studies, and Heather Talbott, president of the Graduate Student Association.

E-submission in place for theses, dissertations

Graduate Studies students can prepare to help save a lot of trees. Beginning this semester, Ph.D. and M.S. students will utilize electronic submission for their theses and dissertations. Formerly, the projects had to be delivered in hard copy. Now, theses and dissertations will be submitted in electronic form and will be warehoused in UNMC’s Digital […]

Jun 15, 2015

Emily McElroy, director of the McGoogan Library of Medicine

Fitness Fridays to return this week

Walk/run event will be held at noon on the Field Club Trail.

Jun 15, 2015

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