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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.

Brothers in nursing fulfill mom’s dream

Cramer brothers Paul, 27, and Dan, 25, both graduates of the UNMC College of Nursing’s bachelor’s degree program, are nurses and both enrolled in the college’s family nurse practitioner program.

Sep 17, 2014

Nancy Cramer out for a stroll in Lincoln with her family: from left, younger son Daniel, husband Paul, Nancy, daughter-in-law Ashlyn, and older son Paul Andrew.

Key CDC leader selected as public health dean

Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., looks forward to nurturing the next generation of public health innovators and leaders.

Sep 17, 2014

Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H.

Native Iowan named new dean of College of Dentistry

Janet Guthmiller, D.D.S., Ph.D., an accomplished researcher, author and teacher with special interests in genetic studies of periodontal bacteria, will begin in her new position Sept. 1.

Sep 17, 2014

Janet Guthmiller, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Holi Festival of Colors

Pink, purple, orange, blue, green and yellow powder covered everyone and everything at the Hindu celebration of spring.

Sep 17, 2014

Colors flew everywhere at the Holi festival celebrated on the Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza.

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

UNMC College of Dentistry museum open for public tours Sept. 22-27

The UNMC College of Dentistry Museum, featuring a collection of dental artifacts that chart the history and evolution of the profession, will be open to the public for free, with tours offered Sept. 22-27. “This display represents one of the largest collections of historic dental items dating from the 1850s to the present in the […]

Sep 16, 2014