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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
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
Dr. Christman to step down as department chair
After 15 years as professor and chairwoman of the UNMC Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Judith Christman, Ph.D., will step down to devote more time to her research and mentoring graduate students.
Jul 31, 2009
Evidence of fun found during science camp
Twelve-year-old Agnes Warner stamps her fingerprints during a recent lesson on forensics investigation. The lesson was part of a three-day summer science camp at the medical center designed to strengthen math and science curriculum of youths on reservations in Nebraska and South Dakota.
Jul 31, 2009
UNMC research funding tops $100 million
Research funding at UNMC soared 22 percent to more than $100 million during the past fiscal year. More than $76 million of that funding came from federal sources.
Jul 31, 2009
UNMC research funding reaches major milestone of $100 million; increase of 22 percent
Research funding at the University of Nebraska Medical Center soared 22 percent to more than $100 million during the past fiscal year. More than $76 million of that funding came from federal sources. UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., said that UNMC’s net research funding support for fiscal year 2008-2009, was $100,474,000 – […]
Jul 31, 2009
21 Nebraska students participate in career workshop at UNMC
Twenty-one high school juniors and seniors from throughout Nebraska participated in the 2009 Summer Health Professions Career Workshop at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Applications come from across the state and students were selected to learn about health sciences and the health careers that are available to them. “We particularly like to expose […]
Jul 31, 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