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Two additional MV Hondius passengers arrive at National Quarantine Unit

Eighteen individuals are now undergoing monitoring and assessment in Omaha.

May 15, 2026

Night shot of the Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center

Two honored with inaugural Staff Advisory Council awards

The chancellor’s May forum hosted the presentation of the inaugural UNMC Staff Advisory Council awards. This year, the UNMC Staff Advisory Council, which was created in 2025, established two staff awards – the Staff Excellence Award and the Above and Beyond Award. Maria Ball, communications specialist with the department of internal medicine, earned the Staff […]

May 15, 2026

From left are Jacqueline Hankins-Berry, community engagement administrative associate with the Munroe-Meyer Institute, UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and Maria Ball, communications specialist with the department of internal medicine.

MMI’s Autism Diagnostic Clinic: A new standard for access

We’ve transformed clinical operations, moving from evaluating 200 children a year to building a system capable of handling more than 1,000 evaluations annually for kids up to age 16.

May 15, 2026

Patricia Zemantic, PhD, director of Autism Diagnostic Clinic

Marley Brown recognized as outstanding provider by DHHS

Marley Brown, senior registered behavior technician in the Munroe-Meyer Institute Department of Specialized Behavior Intervention, was recognized as an outstanding provider by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

May 15, 2026

Marley Brown, center, poses for a photo after being recognized as an outstanding provider by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

Slate on May 14

Why Do We Keep Sending People to Omaha, Nebraska, to Quarantine?

May 15, 2026

UNMC, UNK celebrate opening of rural health education complex

Kearney facilities expand UNMC offerings in medicine, pharmacy, public health, nursing and allied health.

May 15, 2026

Ruth Scott and UNK Chancellor Emeritus Doug Kristensen, JD, stand in front of the Douglas A. Kristensen Rural Health Education Complex.

Pre-Dental Day a big success for UNMC student organizers

More than 100 undergraduate students attended the annual event at the UNMC College of Dentistry.

May 15, 2026

UNMC College of Dentistry Dean Gerard Kugel, DMD, PhD, at left, speaks to the undergraduate college students attending April’s annual Pre-Dental Day at the UNMC College of Dentistry.

Applications open for Interprofessional Academy of Educators

Applications for membership will be accepted through June 29 for academy and affiliate member levels.

May 15, 2026

An image of the Interprofessional Academy of Educators medallion and badge

UNMC for the record, May 15, 2026

BHECN gives out its annual awards during the 2026 B-CON Conference, and UNMC announces retirements.

May 15, 2026

A med center entrance sign that has the words UNMC | Nebraska Medicine and their shared shield logo with blooming trees in the foreground of the sign.

Beyond the Border: A Global Learning Experience

During the summer of 2025, siblings Eben and Esther Samuel, both M1s, joined 14 other UNMC medical students for the university’s inaugural Scott Scholars Global Immersion Program in Xalapa, Mexico. Through a strategic partnership between the UNMC Office of Global Engagement and the Universidad Anáhuac, Veracruz, the Scott Scholars Program successfully launched a new student […]

May 14, 2026

A DIF staff member shows students (standing left to right: Elias Smith, Caden Connealy, Nolan Zeger, Mitchell Blaine; sitting left to right: Eben Samuel & Jacob Rademacher) a plaster mold that was created. He will use this mold to design the prosthetic for this patient.