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Wellness Wednesday: Friday event features giveaway

Fitness Friday organizers will give Camelbak water bottles to first 30 attendees.

Jun 25, 2014

Walk or run the Field Club Trail on Fitness Friday.

LiveGreen: An enterprise-wide sustainabilty effort

Melanie Stewart has accepted the new position of sustainability manager for the clinical enterprise.

Jun 24, 2014

Research Highlights

The following 15 grants representing more than $1.4 million in new funding were awarded to UNMC College of Medicine faculty during April.

Jun 24, 2014

UNMC orthopaedic graduation to begin Friday

Former World-Herald publisher Harold Andersen to speak at ceremony.

Jun 24, 2014

From left, Kevin Lindgren, M.D., Khalid Azzam, M.D., and David Minges, M.D.

Research Information Technology Office provides valuable support

Processing data can be agonizingly slow if you’re not using all the resources available to you.Director of the newly created Research Information Technology Office (RITO) core facility at UNMC, Ashok Mudgapalli, Ph.D., helps researchers maximize use of their current technology and store data safely.

Jun 24, 2014

Ashok Mudgapalli, Ph.D.

A message from the dean

I’d like to begin by saying how pleased I am with the progress being made in integrating our clinical enterprise. The effort being made by innumerable individuals from across the legacy organizations is remarkable and humbling.

Jun 24, 2014

Mind over bladder: to hold or not to hold

Be warned, reading this may cause an unavoidable urge to go to the bathroom. Don’t look any further unless you can take the necessary break.

Jun 24, 2014

Michael Huckabee, Ph.D.

UNMC to strengthen education on sexual misconduct

After the Board of Regents passed a new, university-wide sexual misconduct policy this month, they called for each campus to engage in strong educational programs on the topic.

Jun 24, 2014

Construction update – Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center

With over half of the structural foundation piers in place, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is going vertical. The addition of the second crane located in the northeast corner of the project site allows crews to expand the footprint of the concrete structure facility. Over the next few months, horizontal slabs will be poured to form the lower levels of the Suzanne and Walter Scott Research Tower.

Jun 24, 2014

Surgeon sees alarming rise in baseball injuries

As an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in the elbow and shoulder, it bothers Matt Teusink, M.D., to see the alarming rate of elbow and shoulder injuries in baseball pitchers — from Little League to professional. He said many of the injuries are preventable.

Jun 24, 2014