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Dr. Cornish receives universitywide teaching award
Kurtis Cornish, Ph.D., professor in the UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, has received the University of Nebraska’s Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award (OTICA) for 2011.
Mar 18, 2011
Sue Pope looks back on more than 40 years of Match Day
As she’s done every year since 1970, Sue Pope will help coordinate today’s campus Match Day ceremony, which starts at 11 a.m. in the Sorrell Center’s Truhlsen Campus Events Center.
Mar 17, 2011
National search starts for new academic affairs vice chancellor/graduate studies dean
A national firm will assist an 11-person UNMC committee in the search for a new vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean for graduate studies.
Mar 17, 2011
Lookin’ at U – Jenna Garrow
This week, we learn more about Jenna Garrow, office assistant with the UNMC College of Dentistry.
Mar 17, 2011
Wide selection of pieces to be featured at Music as Medicine
Members of the Omaha Chamber Music Society will play a broad variety of selections during their concert today at noon in the Durham Outpatient Center.
Mar 17, 2011
UNMC SHARING Clinic to offer ophthalmology services
Student-run clinic will provide low-cost eye exams for needy patients Beginning March 21, the student-run SHARING (Student Health Alliance Reaching Indigent Needy Groups) Clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center will now provide ophthalmology services to its patients. The ophthalmology night will be held at UNMC Physicians Eye Specialists, 3925 Dewey Ave., […]
Mar 17, 2011
109 UNMC senior medical students receive residency assignments
A total of 109 senior medical students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha received their residency assignments today during a Match Day ceremony held on campus. A residency is a training program for newly-graduated medical students in the medical area of their choice. Residencies range in length from three to six years. […]
Mar 17, 2011
Nebraska’s 2nd Annual Lymphomathon to be held April 30, proceeds to fund research, patient education
Nebraska’s 2nd Lymphomathon 5K walk will be held Saturday, April 30, at Mahoney State Park. The event, which is hosted by the Lymphoma Research Foundation, will begin at 10 a.m. with registration at 9 a.m. at the park pavilion. Mahoney State Park is located just off of I-80 at exit 426, between Omaha and Lincoln. […]
Mar 16, 2011
A list of aid organizations for Japan
If you’re interested in supporting relief efforts in Japan following Friday’s earthquake and tsunami, check out this story from Yahoo that lists aid organizations.
Mar 16, 2011
Primary care, research and rural medicine rise in U.S.News rankings
UNMC’s primary care, research and rural medicine education programs all moved up in the 2012 U.S.News & World Report rankings of the nation’s top graduate schools.
Mar 16, 2011