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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

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&period;

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&period;

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

UNMC-Streck partnership win-win grad studies alum says

When a top biotechnology company is located within a few miles of a leading academic medical center with a robust research portfolio – chock full of rising, ambitious graduate students – it only makes sense to strike up a series of win-win partnerships. So says Chris Connelly, PhD, director of business segment, molecular, at Streck, […]

Oct 10, 2025

Internship teaches Townsend PhD skills are transferable

Lou Townsend, an IGPBS PhD student in the lab of Wally Thoreson, PhD, took home one of the biggest lessons of his recent internship before it even began. “I’d applied for a completely different location,” Townsend said of his internship with Zoetis, a Fortune 500 animal health company that “discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes vaccines, […]

Oct 2, 2025