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Dr. Maurer: strategic focus guides UNMC

UNMC’s roadmap is its 59-word vision statement. Within those lines, six broad goals help guide and shape UNMC’s future.

Jun 3, 2008

Bel Canto’s ‘beautiful music’ to cap Music as Medicine season

The perfect harmonies of the Nebraska Children’s Chorus Bel Canto choir will once again emanate from the Durham Outpatient Center’s West Atrium as the group caps off the Music as Medicine concert season with a noon concert on Thursday.

Jun 3, 2008

Nebraskans favor health coverage for all, fear losing theirs

While nine in 10 Nebraskans have health care coverage, eight in 10 fear becoming uninsured, and nine in 10 support an affordable health care plan for all-regardless of health status. These are among key findings of the 2008 “Nebraskans on Health Care Issues” survey commissioned by the Nebraska Medical Association (NMA) and released at the Nebraska Health Care Summit last week.

Jun 3, 2008

A formal welcome to the forum

The International Student Research Forum kicked off Monday morning with opening ceremonies in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.

Jun 3, 2008

UNMC College of Dentistry to provide free dental services to Panhandle youths

Eighty students, dental faculty and staff from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry will spend June 6-7 tending to the oral health of 200 children in western Nebraska. This is the fifth year in which the dental college will travel across the state to offer dental services, at no cost, to children […]

Jun 3, 2008

UNMC hosts prestigious International Student Research Forum

Graduate students from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions are in Omaha this week for the International Student Research Forum at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.   This marks the first time the gathering has been held in the United States. For the past two years, UNMC has sent students to the forum […]

Jun 3, 2008

UNMC employee has special tie to Cattlemen’s Ball

This year’s Cattlemen’s Ball is extra special to Jim Temme.   Temme, associate director of the division of Radiation Science Technology Education in the School of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was born and raised in Petersburg, Neb., which is only about five miles from the site of this year’s […]

Jun 3, 2008

Summit draws 120 leaders to discuss health care for Nebraskans

Carl Lorenzen has experienced the high cost of health care and knows how devastating life would be without health insurance.

Jun 2, 2008

Regent Wilson to speak at June 11 UNMC Delegates Event

Charles Wilson, M.D., a member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents, will be the guest speaker at the UNMC Delegates Program event on Wednesday, June 11 at noon in University Tower Private Dining Room C.

Jun 2, 2008

UNMC employee has special tie to Cattlemen’s Ball

This year’s Cattlemen’s Ball is extra special to Jim Temme. A 34-year employee at UNMC, Temme plans to trek back to his old stomping grounds and work as a volunteer at the event Friday and Saturday to help raise money for cancer research at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center.

Jun 2, 2008