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UNMC, Educare partnership includes adult health care

For weeks, Joe Grace heard the sales pitch from his five year-old great nephew, Xavier. The child education center were Xavier attends was having a health fair and Xavier wanted his great uncle to come.

Jun 9, 2008

Veterans Affairs secretary in Omaha today

Veterans Affairs Secretary James B. Peake, M.D., is in Omaha today touring the Omaha VA Medical Center and making an assessment of the physical condition of the facility.

Jun 9, 2008

UNMC students train in communities across Nebraska during summer

University of Nebraska Medical Center students are working with health professionals across Nebraska from June through August as part of their health care education requirements at UNMC.  The student rotations are part of the UNMC Rural Health Education Network (RHEN), an innovative program developed to help address the shortage of health professionals in rural Nebraska. […]

Jun 6, 2008

College of Dentistry to provide free services in the Panhandle

Eighty students, dental faculty and staff from the UNMC College of Dentistry will spend today and Saturday tending to the oral health of 200 children in western Nebraska.

Jun 6, 2008

The Sorrell Center count down has begun

Click here to see a new Web site dedicated to the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education.

Jun 6, 2008

John Gale: forum participants are pioneers of the new millennium

Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale said those who participated in this week’s International Student Research Forum (ISRF) at UNMC represent the next line of great explorers.

Jun 6, 2008

Volunteers needed for transplant reunion

The 2008 Solid Organ Transplant Reunion will be held Saturday, July 26 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center, 72nd and Grover streets. Many volunteers are needed to help make it a success.

Jun 6, 2008

And now for something completely different … Juggling!

Well, those looking for something to do this weekend can toss this into their schedules — the 2008 Flatland Juggling Festival will be held starting today at the UNMC Center for Healthy Living.

Jun 6, 2008

UNMC College of Pharmacy students earn dean’s list honors

Seventy-five students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy were named to the Spring 2008 dean’s list.   To qualify for the dean’s list, students must place in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above. The students and their hometowns are listed […]

Jun 6, 2008

Spring Discover now available online

The Spring 2008 edition of UNMC Discover can now be read online by clicking here.

Jun 5, 2008