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Dr. Maurer earns Lifetime Achievement Award from Children’s Oncology Group
UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has been named the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Children’s Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute-supported clinical cooperative cancer treatment and research group. Dr. Maurer is being recognized for his significant contributions to pediatric cancer research.
Mar 10, 2003
UNMC announces first phase of budget cuts
UNMC today announced its plans to reduce its budget by $2 million for the fiscal year 2003-2004. “None of these cuts are easy. We’ve tried to preserve our educational programs in these cuts, and I think that we’ve done a good job of selecting parts of the budget that will have the least impact on the overall vision of UNMC,” UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer said. See story for more details.
Mar 10, 2003
Q & A — UNMC’s budget-cutting plans
Learn more about UNMC’s budget-cutting plans in this Q & A.
Mar 10, 2003
UNMC College of Nursing Students Earn Dean’s List Honors
Students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing were named to the deans list following the fall semester 2002. To qualify for the deans list, students must have a grade point average of 3.8 or above. The UNMC College of Nursing, based in Omaha, with divisions in Lincoln, Kearney and Scottsbluff, […]
Mar 7, 2003
Wallace Thoreson, Ph.D., named 2003 winner of UNMC College of Medicine Joseph P. Gilmore Outstanding Investigator Award
Wallace Thoreson, Ph.D., recently received the 2003 University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Joseph P. Gilmore Outstanding Investigator Award for his research into understanding how the eye works. Dr. Gilmore, for whom the award is named, was professor and chairman of the UNMC department of physiology from 1970 to 1987. He was funded […]
Mar 7, 2003
UNMC Chancellor Earns Lifetime Achievement Award from National Children’s Oncology Group
Harold M. Maurer, M.D., chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Childrens Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute-supported clinical cooperative cancer treatment and research group. Im tremendously honored and humbled, Dr. Maurer said. To get a Lifetime Achievement Award from all of […]
Mar 7, 2003
College of Nursing moves to online testing
It’s test day in the College of Nursing. But for many students, that does not mean a trip to the classroom with a No. 2 pencil and an eraser. For some nursing students, it means a trip to the computer lab and about a hundred clicks of the mouse. This semester, 11 College of Nursing graduate and undergraduate classes are taking tests online using Perception software.
Mar 7, 2003
UNMC sends medical supplies to Afghanistan
The UNMC Bookstore has donated approximately 25 boxes of nursing and medical books, as well as lab coats and scrubs to hospitals in Afghanistan. It is the first donation being sent from UNMC to the impoverished area.
Mar 7, 2003
Officials compare Nebraska budget woes to surrounding states
Popular opinion and newspaper headlines would lead you to believe that the University of Nebraska’s budget woes are similar to every other state university in the country. But a look at surrounding states shows that the cuts to NU’s budget isolate the university on an island, where it is at a competitive disadvantage for recruiting new faculty and students. This is the last installment in a three-part series on the budget.
Mar 7, 2003
NU’s Smith issues letter to faculty, staff
Click to read University of Nebraska President L. Dennis Smith’s letter to all University of Nebraska faculty and staff regarding budget cuts.
Mar 7, 2003