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Light The Night Walk set for Thursday

There’s still time to join the UNMC/clinical enterprise team to raise funds to fight cancer.

Sep 17, 2014

Eric Nagengast preferred global surgical experience to graduation

In the middle of his third year of medical school, Eric Nagengast realized he wasn’t ready to graduate just yet.

Sep 17, 2014

Eric Nagengast, left, in India operating with William Magee, M.D., D.D.S., the founder of Operation Smile.

Meeting the behavioral health needs of rural communities

In order to finish her master’s degree in community counseling at Doane College, the Bruning, Neb., native needed to complete 1,000 hours of internship training to realize her goal of becoming a licensed mental health professional.

Sep 17, 2014

Darcy Dawson

Cancer research conducted in homeland

Salomon Compaore, M.D., spent the summer in his homeland, Burkina Faso, a landlocked country in West Africa, conducting research on cervical cancer.

Sep 17, 2014

Salomon Compaore, M.D., works with a midwife to screen women for cervical cancer in Burkina Faso.

UNMC, Orbis partner on unique fellowship to prevent global blindness

By July of 2015, one lucky ophthalmologist will embark on a unique two-year fellowship that will take him or her around the world.

Sep 17, 2014

Orbis provided surgical assistance to a young boy to remove a congenital cataract.

LiveGreen: We’re celebrating what today?

Happy “International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer.”

Sep 16, 2014

College of Dentistry hosting ‘cheek swab’ drive

Event is inspired by incoming dental student diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).

Sep 16, 2014

Under the Microscope: United Way, Day 2

Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., talks with Rod Markin, M.D., Ph.D., about the 2014 United Way of the Midlands campaign at UNMC.

Sep 16, 2014

United Way of the Midlands funds health and human service programs across Douglas, Sarpy and Pottawattamie counties.

Library’s fall book sale runs through Oct. 24

Donations will support the Fontenelle Elementary School library.

Sep 16, 2014

Remembering Mike Simmonds

Omaha restaurateur was a supporter of cancer research at UNMC.

Sep 16, 2014