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COBRE renewal expands nanotechnology research

Federal grant is renewed for more than $11.2 million over five years.

Sep 17, 2013

LiveGreen: Summer energy curtailment efforts pay off

Peak energy usage dropped substantially during the year’s hottest months.

Sep 17, 2013

Investigators sought for Cancer Society seed grants

The Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center is soliciting grants of up to $50,000 for 2014.

Sep 17, 2013

Spring brings growth to UNMC

One building sprouted this spring and two more were planted in a series of unprecedented public and privately supported projects at the medical center – buildings that will put UNMC on the leading edge of patient care, education and research.

Sep 17, 2013

Swanson Hall’s swan song

Swanson Hall was created as a place to save lives. Its demise will lay the groundwork to save even more.

Sep 17, 2013

Thoracic and GI oncology conference set for October

Registration closes Sept. 23 for conference.

Sep 17, 2013

Holland Regenerative Medicine Program promotes innovative research

Regenerative medicine – a research area that will dramatically impact health and change disease outcomes – got a big boost at UNMC with a gift from Mary and Dick Holland.

Sep 17, 2013

Health policy expert is in the house

A minimalist by nature, Jim Stimpson, Ph.D., occupies an office with no papers on the desk, no pictures on the walls.

Sep 17, 2013

Fulfilling a dream

UNMC’s emergency department research director, who died in 2012, planned to return to his native Vietnam to teach the U.S. approach to graduate medical education. He was going to improve patient care through better education in the region where he was born. He was going to make a difference.

Sep 17, 2013

Power Wheels to Makeshift Power Wheelchairs

The idea to modify cars is not new. Just look at reality shows like “Trick My Truck.”

But the concept of adapting toy cars for children with disabilities? Now, that’s novel.

Sep 17, 2013