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Fall Learn@Lunch series to focus on teambuilding
UNMC will launch its fall sessions for the Learn@Lunch Series on Thursday, Sept. 10. The fall session will focus on teambuilding.
Aug 4, 2009
Questions due Thursday for health care reform forum
Employees have until 5 p.m. Thursday to submit questions to be asked during Friday’s employee forum on health care reform.
Aug 4, 2009
Father of transplant patient also gets new heart
Bruce Prenosil’s word for 2009 is “Believe.”
Since he was put on the top of the heart transplant list in April, Prenosil believed he would get a new heart in time to keep him alive.
Aug 4, 2009
UNMC receives more than $3 million in Recovery Act funds
The University of Nebraska Medical Center has been awarded more than $3.1 million in Stimulus (American Recovery Act and Reinvestment) funding for biomedical research. A large number of other UNMC proposals are still pending. The award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will provide funding for up to 67 jobs within the […]
Aug 4, 2009
Dr. Buehler to present next Omaha Science Cafe tonight
Bruce Buehler, M.D., former director of the Munroe-Meyer Institute, will present “Modifying our Genetic Blueprint, Nature versus Nutrition” today 7 p.m. at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. in Omaha.
Aug 4, 2009
Business entities the focus of Thursday seminar
UNeMed Corporation, the technology transfer leader for UNMC, will sponsor a free Webinar series for all researchers, post docs and graduates students. The seventh course in the 11-week series, ” The Advanced Essentials: Business Entities,” is scheduled for Thursday.
Aug 3, 2009
UNMC Off the Clock – MMI’s Askew likes to foil fencing foes
When James Askew was an undergraduate student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha in the early 1990s, he saw a flier on campus about a fencing club. He went to a club meeting and has swung a foil ever since.
Aug 3, 2009
UNMC names new chairman for biochemistry and molecular biology
One of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s top researchers, Surinder Batra, Ph.D., has been named chairman of the College of Medicine’s Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB). Dr. Batra, who also serves as senior associate dean for research and development for the College of Medicine, succeeds Judith Christman, Ph.D., who has been chairwoman […]
Aug 3, 2009
A schedule of UNMC/KETV News Watch 7 segments
A schedule of this weekend’s “Health Watch Asks, UNMC Answers” segments on KETV NewsWatch 7.
Jul 31, 2009
Summer interns provide foundation for research work
For many gifted high school students, the interest is there — but the opportunities are few. That’s why Oluwatoyin Asojo, Ph.D., assistant professor in UNMC’s pathology and microbiology department, participates in the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Project SEED program.
Jul 31, 2009