Academic Affairs

E-Learning announces 2025-26 cohort for funded awards program

The funded teams and their projects reflect new, collaborative approaches to learning.

Dec 5, 2025

Peggy Moore, director of interactive e-learning

Canvas Convergence project to launch in fall 2026

The initiative to unify NU’s four learning management systems will create a more seamless experience for faculty and students.

Dec 4, 2025

Logo of Nebraska outline that has word Canvas

Nominations due Feb. 27 for annual faculty awards

The UNMC Faculty Senate recognizes faculty for meritorious teaching, mentoring or service.

Dec 4, 2025

UNMC emblem

UNMC launches new faculty mentoring initiative 

UNMC Academic Affairs is fostering connections across campus to help build collaboration among faculty.

Dec 2, 2025

Jane Meza, PhD

Nominations for UNMC’s honorary degree remain open

The degrees, the highest honor that the university can bestow, will be awarded in 2026.

Oct 27, 2025

Barry Gold, PhD, emeritus professor and former chair of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, receives an Honorary Doctorate of Science degree at the May 2024 UNMC commencement.

InnovatED Symposium highlights collaboration, innovation

The event, held Sept. 30, brought together interprofessional educators and staff from across UNMC.

Oct 24, 2025

Thomas Tobin, PhD, founding member of the Center for Teaching, Learning & Mentoring at the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave the keynote presentation, “Three Ways to Take Work Off Your Plate,” during third annual InnovatED Symposium.

Drs. Cochran, Cook honored as 2025 Distinguished Educators

The Interprofessional Academy of Educators’ Distinguished Educator Award is the academy’s highest honor.

Oct 10, 2025

Teresa Cochran, DPT, PhD, and Kristen Cook, PharmD

International family medicine partnership marks ninth year

UNMC and the University of Anahuac expanded their collaboration to launch an academic observership in family medicine.

Oct 7, 2025

From left, Armando De Alba, MD, PhD, associate professor of family medicine at UNMC; Jeffrey Harrison, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Family Medicine; Tito Abiud Castro Candia; David Gabriel Delgado Castillo; UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD; Rommina Durante San Román; Bradley Britigan, MD, dean of the UNMC College of Medicine; and Ana Carolina Herrera Velázquez

UNMC’s IAE inducts a record 45 new members

The 2025 inductees join a group of nearly 300 members across Nebraska in the Interprofessional Academy of Educators.

Oct 3, 2025

Interprofessional Academy of Educators medallions

Applications open for funded e-learning program

An online informational session will be held this Friday for those interested in applying.

Sep 3, 2025

Peggy Moore