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Lookin’ at U – Anne Rivas

UNMC staffer’s longtime Big Ten ties don’t make her a football fan.

Oct 30, 2014

Anne Rivas

Five Things to Scream About

What is it about a high-pitched, blood-curdling scream that chills us to the bone? In this season of frights and scares, the shriek carries lots of messages.

Oct 30, 2014

Michael Huckabee, Ph.D., professor and director of the University of Nebraska Medical Center Division of Physician Assistant Education. Dr. Huckabee has 30 years’ experience as a physician assistant, mostly in rural Nebraska.

UNMC now shares logo with hospital partner, Nebraska Medicine

The Nebraska Medical Center, Bellevue Medical Center and UNMC Physicians – once three separate but interconnected organizations – are now one operating under one name: Nebraska Medicine.

Oct 30, 2014

Coming Events

Nov. 3-7 – International Week. Nov. 4 – Science Café, 7 p.m., Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. Topic – Ebola; speaker – Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the UNMC College of Public Health. Nov. 4 – Joslyn Art Museum will host an Art Talk & Brown Bag Lunch event featuring its latest exhibit – […]

Oct 30, 2014

ID card changes will take time

Attempts to “pin” new logo to cards may ruin access coding.

Oct 29, 2014

Halloween event will support medical aid to children

Student Alliance for Global Health event will feature food, fun and ghost stories read by Robert Binhammer, Ph.D.

Oct 29, 2014

A young patient and some UNMC students who traveled last year to Cochabamba, Bolivia, during spring break to conduct medical service.

Drs. Florescu, MacTaggart receive Innovation Awards

Marius Florescu, M.D., is 2014 Emerging Inventor, and Jason MacTaggart, M.D., gets Most Promising New Invention Award.

Oct 29, 2014

Expert offers unique perspective on U.S. history

Smithsonian’s Richard Kurin, Ph.D., will look at history of America in 101 objects on Nov. 3.

Oct 29, 2014

Historian Richard Kurin, Ph.D., and Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," one (or two?) objects in "The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects."

Public health careers to be focus of College of Public Health open house Nov. 7

The open house will be from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Maurer Center for Public Health, 519 S. 40th Plaza Circle.

Oct 29, 2014

Public Health Association of Nebraska names Brandon Grimm as president-elect

His election marks the first time anyone from academia has been elected to the state association’s leadership.

Oct 29, 2014