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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
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
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
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
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
Speaker describes childhood during the Holocaust
Omaha business leader Milt Kleinberg will speak on “Bread or Death: Memories of my Childhood during and after the Holocaust.”
Oct 20, 2015
Engagement survey results forum set for Wednesday
The 10 a.m. presentation will be held at the College of Public Health.
Oct 20, 2015
Artist Chihuly provides installation for cancer center
Dale Chihuly, one of the world’s foremost artists working in glass, will feature his work at the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.
Oct 20, 2015
