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Silver U recipients announced for April
To find out this month’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Silver ‘U’ Award click on Reward and Recognition (the left hand side of UNMC Today) and scroll to the Silver ‘U’ section.
Apr 28, 2006
Run/walk benefits SHARING Clinics
UNMC’s second annual SHARING the Trail run/walk recently raised about $5,600 to provide health care for the community’s indigent populations.
Apr 28, 2006
Boyden receives Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award
Marjorie Boyden jokes that football kept her at UNMC. In reality, it is the colleagues and graduate students with whom she has worked the past 35-plus years. For her outstanding performance and service, Boyden, an office associate II in UNMC’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology, has received the Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award for April.
Apr 28, 2006
Nebraska shows biotechnology prowess at BIO 2006
Nebraska’s high-tech pavilion at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s April 9-12 biotechnology convention caught the attention of thousands of biotechnology executives, investors, journalists, policymakers and scientists, with its life-sized talking robot, Sprockit; its computerized dog, Sonic; and a team of Nebraskans dressed in red “Bio’s Hot in Nebraska” shirts.
Apr 28, 2006
Chancellor Maurer delivers State-of-the-Campus Address at UNMC
Since becoming chancellor seven and a half years ago, Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has been committed to building the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s future. At Tuesday’s Annual Faculty Meeting at the Durham Research Center Auditorium, Dr. Maurer delivered a stirring state-of-the-campus address in which he spelled out his vision for the future, while […]
Apr 28, 2006
596 UNMC students to receive diplomas in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Scottsbluff at commencements
Diplomas will be conferred on 596 University of Nebraska Medical Center students next week during commencement ceremonies in Kearney, Lincoln, Omaha and Scottsbluff. On Thursday, May 4 at 7 p.m., commencement exercises for UNMC College of Nursing Kearney Division students will be held in Kearney in the Health and Sports Center on the University […]
Apr 28, 2006
Momentum continues to build at UNMC
Since becoming chancellor seven and a half years ago, Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has been committed to building UNMC’s future. At Tuesday’s Annual Faculty Meeting, Dr. Maurer spelled out his vision for the future, while outlining the accomplishments of the past year and detailing the challenges that lie ahead.
Apr 27, 2006
Joslyn announces photography exhibits
The Joslyn Art Museum invites UNMC, UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center employees, students and their families to a variety of cultural exhibits and activities. This spring and summer Joslyn is focused on photography as it hosts three photography exhibitions. See story for details.
Apr 27, 2006
Increase in term life insurance notice
Because of favorable experience in the group term life insurance program, Security Financial Life will increase by 40 percent the amount of coverage in excess of $20,000 that you possessed on Dec. 31, 2005.
Apr 27, 2006
Aging expert to speak at Harman Lectureship April 28
If you could find out about how long you will live, would you want to know? Though genetics plays a role in living to 100, centenarian study researchers say most people should be able to live to their late 80s in exceptional health. Aging expert Thomas Perls, M.D., will give Friday’s Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D. Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology at UNMC.
Apr 27, 2006