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Ruth and Bill Scott make another major gift to UNMC
They’ve done it again. Omaha philanthropists Ruth and Bill Scott have made another major investment – their third this year – to the University of Nebraska Foundation to advance the objectives of the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The latest Scotts’ gift honors their longtime friends, Fred Paustian, M.D., and his wife, Mary […]
Oct 25, 2006
UNMC emergency residency program proving fruitful
UNMC’s Emergency Medicine Residency Program is allowing the university and Scottsbluff’s Regional West Medical Center to improve health care in Nebraska.
Oct 24, 2006
Translating a diagnosis
For the past 14 years, second-year medical students at UNMC have gotten a taste of working with professional and non-professional interpreters and non-English speaking patients to better understand how to overcome communication barriers.
Oct 24, 2006
Employee forums Thursday and Friday
Campus forums for all UNMC employees and faculty will be held on Thursday and Friday in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.
Oct 24, 2006
UNMC, Chicano Awareness Center co-hosting the 16th Annual Latina/Latino Youth Conference Oct. 27 at UNMC
The University of Nebraska Medical Center and the Chicano Awareness Center are co-hosting the 16th Annual Latina/Latino Youth Conference Oct. 27 at the UNMC College of Nursing Cooper Auditorium. More than 200 students from 12 high schools and one middle school in Omaha and the greater metropolitan area, will learn about college and career […]
Oct 24, 2006
Vernellia Randall, nationally acclaimed educator on law and health care to speak at UNMC Oct. 30
The University of Nebraska Medical Center Office of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs announced that Vernellia Randall, professor of law at the University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio, and director of the university’s Academic Excellence Program will speak on campus. Her address is titled, “Discrimination Not Disparities: Using Civil Rights Law to Improve the Health of […]
Oct 24, 2006
Dr. Baldwin’s teaching honored at COP convocation
Jeffrey Baldwin, Pharm.D., associate professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy, received the college’s 2006 Distinguished Teacher Award on Thursday.
Oct 23, 2006
UNMC College of Nursing inducts new students
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing held induction ceremonies across the state Oct. 8 to recognize 129 new nursing students as they committed to academic integrity and begin assimilating the values and behaviors of the professional nurse.
Oct 23, 2006
President Milliken addresses Initiative 423
University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken addresses Initiative 423, a measure aimed at capping state spending.
Oct 23, 2006
Dr. Mueller has ideas about cutting health care costs
Keith Mueller, Ph.D., director of the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has a few ideas about cutting health care costs, including transforming how health care services are financed and delivered.
Oct 20, 2006