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Silver U recipients announced for December
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.
Dec 16, 2004
Adolf receives Chancellor’s Gold U Award
When she’s not meeting with nursing home patients, Vicki Adolf is traveling to another long-term care facility in her red Jeep Liberty. As a nurse coordinator in UNMC’s Department of Psychiatry, Adolf logs nearly 6,000 miles a year traveling between 11 Omaha-area nursing homes and her office on the Richard Young Center campus.
Dec 16, 2004
Golden Apple Awards announced
UNMC students Tuesday recognized two outstanding teachers with the 2003-04 Golden Apple Award. James Booth, Ph.D., associate professor in the UNMC Department of Pathology and Microbiology, received the award from the Class of 2006, while the Class of 2007 posthumously recognized Michael Dalton, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy.
Dec 16, 2004
Students deck the halls at the Ronald McDonald House
UNMC’s Radiation Science students decorate the Ronald McDonald House for the holidays. Click for photos.
Dec 15, 2004
Understanding refugee culture crux of Ghana trip
Valda Boyd Ford will spend the New Year in the largest refugee camp in Ghana. Ford, director of UNMC’s Community and Multicultural Affairs, will spend eight weeks in the 140-acre Buduburam Refugee Camp working with Unite for Sight, an organization dedicated to health promotion and disease prevention. She leaves at the end of the month.
Dec 15, 2004
Holiday tea draws crowd
On Tuesday, a large gathering of faculty, staff and students attended UNMC’s annual Holiday Tea. Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife Beverly hosted the two-hour event in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium.
Dec 15, 2004
Swarts helped bring Ronald McDonald House to Omaha
There would be no Ronald McDonald House in Omaha without Keith Swarts, says businessman Tony Diez. He should know. He worked alongside UNMC’s Director of Business Services to bring the Ronald McDonald House to Omaha 10 years ago.
Dec 14, 2004
UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute to host “Walk & Roll for Disabilities” to benefit families, caregivers of adults with developmental disabilities; Eric Crouch honorary team captain
For families and caregivers of adults with developmental disabilities, doing simple things like running errands and catching up on shopping is a welcome reprieve from constant demands of caring for a loved one. The University of Nebraska Medical Center Munroe-Meyer Institute and the C. Louis Meyer Foundation, invites the public to participate in its […]
Dec 14, 2004
UNMC training site for minimally invasive joint replacement surgery
Zimmer Holdings, Inc. Friday announced that it has entered into an agreement with UNMC to establish a Zimmer Institute training site at the school to collaborate on advancement of minimally invasive procedures and technologies for joint replacement surgery. UNMC becomes just the third U.S. training site for Zimmer.
Dec 13, 2004
UNMC College of Dentistry Scientist Receives $1.5 million grant from NIH to Continue Multiple Sclerosis Research
Kalipada Pahan, Ph.D., associate professor of biochemistry, oral biology and pharmacology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry in Lincoln, has received a five-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study potential new anti-neuroinflammatory drugs for multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects […]
Dec 13, 2004