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Experts discuss moving on after tragedy
During a forum for employees and students on Friday, two experts from the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement discussed community reaction to the Westroads Mall Shooting.
Dec 26, 2007
Fremont Public Library Completes Go Local Nebraska Community Health Services Update
The Keene Memorial Library in Fremont was presented the first Go Local Nebraska Recognition Award last week by Marie Reidelbach, associate director of the McGoogan Library of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The librarians and staff of the Keene library received the award for their work on completing a comprehensive listing of […]
Dec 26, 2007
Number one New Year’s Resolution: Quitting Smoking
Number one New Year’s Resolution: Quitting Smoking Next to losing weight, quitting smoking tops the list of many people’s New Year’s resolutions. More than 20 million people will try to kick the habit in 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Luckily there is plenty of help in the form of gum, lozenges, pills […]
Dec 26, 2007
Student efforts net recycling drop-off point on campus
Thanks to efforts led by UNMC Student Senate President Jonathan Henning, a recycling drop-off point to be used by the entire Omaha community now sits near the Student Life Center.
Dec 21, 2007
Cookies, tea and cheese cubes … Oh my!
Boasting a spread of food and drink as appealing to the eye as it was the taste buds, the annual Chancellor’s Holiday Tea once again drew hundreds to Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium on Wednesday.
Dec 21, 2007
Tea for Dr. Buehler set for Jan. 3
A tea for Bruce Buehler, M.D., will be Thursday, Jan. 3 from 1 to 3 p.m. in University Tower’s Private Dining Room C.
Dec 21, 2007
Forum on mall shootings rescheduled for Friday
An employee/student forum about the Dec. 5 Westroads Mall shooting set for Thursday has been rescheduled for today at noon in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.
Dec 21, 2007
N.C. firm/UNMC partner to investigate potential new drugs
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Addrenex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has signed a licensing agreement with UNeMed Corporation, the technology transfer arm of UNMC, giving Addrenex exclusive rights to the medical center’s library of nearly 400 compounds that target “adrenergic” receptors — docking sites on cells that react with the hormones adrenalin and noradrenalin.
Dec 21, 2007
Dr. Langnas: Transplant patients can lead full lives
A Minnesota girl who was seriously injured in June when a pool drain sucked out her small intestine underwent a multi-organ transplant on Monday at UNMC’s hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center.
Dec 21, 2007
Dr. Pamies honored by Gershom Empowerment Center
Rubens Pamies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, recently received an inaugural award from Omaha’s new Gershom Empowerment Center. The award recognizes the unique contributions and service immigrants have made to the United States. Pamies, the son of Haitian immigrants, moved to Queens, N.Y., at the age […]
Dec 21, 2007