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UNMC leadership team to visit 6 Nebraska communities June 8-9

Chancellor Harold M. Maurer M.D., and eight members of the UNMC leadership team, will visit six east-central and eastern Nebraska communities June 8 and 9. This is the seventh annual trip across Nebraska for the team. From Aurora, Grand Island and Kearney on June 8, to Hastings, Columbus and Blair on June 9, the group […]

Jun 3, 2009

Seventh Foundations for Success class graduates

Armed with new tools to advance careers and workplaces, 47 UNMC employees graduated May 6 from the seventh session of the Foundations for Success program.

Jun 3, 2009

Wellness Wednesday – Welcome to sunscreen season

As summer draws near, the UNMC safety council reminds medical center employees to be mindful of the sun and its ability to wreak havoc on skin.

Jun 3, 2009

Leave your computer on tonight

Information Technology Services (ITS) will send computer patches tonight to on-campus computers that are supported by ITS. If you use one of these computers, you should leave your computer on when you leave work.

Jun 2, 2009

Tickets still available for Cattlemen’s Ball

Tickets are still available for the 11th annual Cattlemen’s Ball — which will be held Saturday near Doniphan.

Jun 2, 2009

Dr. Anderson to present tonight’s Science Cafe

Dan Anderson, M.D, Ph.D., assistant professor of cardiology, will present “Diet, Exercise, Inflammation and Heart Disease: What’s the Connection” during a Science Cafe today at 7 p.m. at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. in Omaha.

Jun 2, 2009

Dr. Shull accepts post in Wisconsin

James Shull, Ph.D., professor and chairman of UNMC’s Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy, has been named chairman of the Department of Oncology/McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The appointment is effective Sept. 1.

Jun 2, 2009

Behavioral health bill to boost workforce, training, access to care

Nebraska is a step closer to a mental health workforce that can better serve families that deal with such behavioral health issues as depression, substance abuse, schizophrenia and addictions.

Jun 2, 2009

Panhandle children to receive free dental care

  Sixty students, dental faculty and staff from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry will travel 500 miles June 5-6 to serve the dental needs of 200 children in western Nebraska. This is the sixth year in which the dental college will travel across the state to offer dental services, at no […]

Jun 2, 2009

Path/micro graduate students honored

Four pathology and microbiology students were honored recently at the department’s graduate student research seminar.

Jun 1, 2009