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UNMC researcher heads $3.3 million national study in rare pediatric diseases

University of Nebraska Medical Center researcher, William Rizzo, M.D., has received a five-year, $3.3 million grant to study 10 rare diseases that affect children beginning in infancy or early childhood and throughout their life.

Oct 30, 2014

Merging offices to provide better services to medical school

The landscape of medical education is undergoing a significant paradigm shift. In an effort to meet these needs and enhance medical student education, the Office of Medical Education (OME) has been formed. The OME merged existing services, bringing the Educational Support Office (ESO) and the Curriculum and Educational Research Office (CERO) under one umbrella.

Oct 30, 2014

UNMC breaks ground on fitness center expansion

The University of Nebraska Medical Center has broken ground on a new 6,525-square-foot addition and 11,845 square feet renovation to two floors of the Student Life Center building at 40th and Jones streets.

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

Workshop marks decade of nanomedicine research

Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine’s founding director, Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sc., returns for conference.

Oct 28, 2014

Alexander "Sasha" Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sc., will return to UNMC for a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine.