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UNMC hosts 2007 State Science Meet Alumni Reunion
Seventeen Nebraska high school students recently attended a reunion for former participants of the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s State Science Meet. The students, who were eighth graders in 2004 and 2005, are now juniors and seniors in high school. From July 18 to 20, the students explored science and health care careers, visited […]
Jul 27, 2007
21- year-old who received liver transplant at 14 days old celebrates birthday, transplant anniversary
Twenty-one years ago, Morgan Smith-Dennis went home as a typical 7-pound newborn. His parents, Moses Dennis and Mary Smith-Dennis had all the joy and hope of new parents. Things were settling in with life with a newborn in Olathe, Kan. But they started to suspect something was wrong when their newborn would sleep most […]
Jul 27, 2007
Rare book featured tonight on NET program
John Schleicher of the McGoogan Library of Medicine will display and discuss a copy of Sir Isaac Newton’s book, Opticks, which was printed in 1730 and currently is part of UNMC’s rare book collection, tonight on a Nebraska Educational Television special titled “Saving Nebraska’s Treasures.”
Jul 26, 2007
New splash pad keeping MMI campers cool
Slowly the boy approaches the pole with the cone-shaped buckets at the top. He looks up.
Wait for it. One more second. Whoosh! A stream of water splashes down on his head. Laughing the boy in the bright red swim trunks runs to the next water station on the newly installed splash pad at the Munroe Meyer Institute (MMI).
Jul 26, 2007
Surgical education technologies highlight CAST symposium
A recent symposium hosted by the Center for Advanced Surgical Techniques (CAST) was designed to introduce participants to new areas of research and the enhanced educational capabilities that surgical simulation offers.
Jul 26, 2007
Fifth and sixth graders get hands on at science camp
If you told eleven-year-old Angelica Gutierrez that science camp is boring, she would beg to differ. “It’s a blast,” Gutierrez said. “I love science!” That was music to the ears of Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D., the UNMC associate professor of pediatrics who hosted the four-day July science camp at Liberty Elementary School in Omaha for fifth- and sixth-graders.
Jul 25, 2007
Spotlight on new faculty — meet Vijay Shivaswamy, M.D.
Vijay Shivaswamy, M.D., assistant professor in the diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism section, is one the many new faculty members at UNMC.
Jul 25, 2007
Dr. Persidsky’s $2.3 million NIH R01 grant renewed
Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., recently received renewal of an important grant that will allow him to continue his work on understanding the mechanisms of blood brain barrier injury caused by neuron-inflammation and HIV-1 brain infection.
Jul 25, 2007
Michelle Hess receives AGT Outstanding Achievement Award
Michelle Hess, human genetics lab supervisor for the Munroe-Meyer Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” at the recent National Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT) meeting in Denver. The award is given annually to one member of AGT who is committed to furthering the field of genetics. AGT […]
Jul 25, 2007
Pharmacy students looking for Omaha’s talent
The UNMC College of Pharmacy Class of 2009 is looking for people interested in competing in its Omaha’s Got Talent event Sept. 22, proceeds from which will go toward cancer research for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Jul 24, 2007