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Omaha Virtual Reality Pipeline builds career pathways in immersive tech

Oct 13, 2025

NU update: Upcoming changes to 2026 university benefits

The University of Nebraska System sent out a message Friday with important information about NU health insurance plans.

Oct 13, 2025

NU Varner Hall

New investigator: Arpan Acharya, PhD

Dr. Acharya is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience.

Oct 13, 2025

Arpan Acharya, PhD

Remembering dentistry professor Myron Pudwill, DDS

Services are today for Dr. Pudwill, who joined the UNMC College of Dentistry faculty in 1967.

Oct 13, 2025

Myron Pudwill, DDS

Parking Services adopts new digital recognition system

With implementation of the license plate recognition technology next week, parking stickers for permits will go away.

Oct 13, 2025

A UNMC Parking Services patrol vehicle with the new license plate reader attached to the roof

UNMC site of mock drill Oct. 17

During the exercise, the public may see activity in and around the Maurer Center for Public Health on the Omaha campus.

Oct 13, 2025

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Interim dean: The excitement of a new academic year

Welcome to the UNMC fall 2025 semester. We’re excited to begin a new academic year and move forward together. The start of a new season brings opportunities and challenges, both within our campus and across the broader landscape of health sciences education. We’ve welcomed some new faces to the UNMC Office of Graduate Studies. Jered […]

Oct 10, 2025

Karen Gould, PhD

Graduate Studies welcomes new cohort at matriculation

UNMC Graduate Studies welcomed more than160 new students at its annual matriculation ceremony Aug. 19. Please see a photo album of the event here. “You have come here from six continents,” said David Crouse, PhD, professor emeritus, who helped welcome the new students. “And there are only seven.” Dr. Crouse was among a handful of […]

Oct 10, 2025

Moorthy Ponnusamy, PhD, gave the keynote address as the 2025 the Graduate Student Association’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Graduate Students Award honoree.

Relax, recharge, connect at Graduate Studies Wellness Hub

The UNMC Graduate Studies Wellness Hub, located in Durham Research Center I, is a welcoming space for graduate students to relax, recharge and connect. The space offers a kitchen area with coffee maker, microwave and ice machine. It also serves as a delivery site for the Maverick Food Pantry and offers an array of nonperishable […]

Oct 10, 2025

The UNMC Graduate Student Wellness Hub features several opportunities to unwind, including a foosball table.

How did you get that fellowship? One success story

Abigail Hall is a PhD student studying Staphylococcus aureus in the lab of Vinai Thomas, PhD, associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology. She recently earned a one-year predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. Let’s talk to her about how she earned this award and what receiving such a fellowship means to her career. […]

Oct 10, 2025

PhD student Abigail Hall