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Board of Regents approves second design phase for Project Health

Transformational academic health care facility will help shape the future of Nebraska.

Oct 3, 2025

The latest conceptual rendering of Project Health. All images courtesy HDR Inc.

UNMC leaders discuss defense collaborations at regents meeting

Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and John Lowe, PhD, spoke to board.

Oct 3, 2025

UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, addresses the Board of Regents Friday.

UNMC nurse practitioner emergency care program achieves national validation

New post-graduate certificate program approved by American Academy of Emergency Nurse Practitioners.

Oct 1, 2025

Haley Hays, DNP, UNMC College of Nursing, leads an intubation exercise with nursing students Laura Rogers and Jamie Granatowicz in the simulation lab at the Davis Global Center on the Omaha campus. The exercise will be part of the Emergency Nurse Practitioner Post-Graduate Certificate program, which welcomes its first cohort in January 2026.

Nebraska AHEC announces 2025 graduates

Program prepares health professions students to serve in rural and urban underserved areas. 

Aug 11, 2025

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UNMC announces spring 2025 dean’s list

List includes students enrolled in nursing, dentistry, pharmacy and allied health professions programs.

Jun 24, 2025

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Sarpy County, UNMC to team on state’s first forensic psychiatry fellowship

Fellowship, to begin in 2026, will improve outcomes where legal, mental health concerns meet.

Jun 24, 2025

From left, Howard Liu, MD, chair of the UNMC Department of Psychiatry; Kimberly Clawson, MD, founding forensic psychiatry fellowship director, UNMC Department of Psychiatry; Tom Dargy, Sarpy County assistant county administrator; and Jo Martin, Sarpy County corrections director

Developing research network designed to enhance rural informed care

Greater Nebraska Rural Research Network (GNRRN) will give Nebraska’s critical access hospitals tools and infrastructure to support research.

Jun 20, 2025

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Board of Regents approves Diabetes Center for Excellence in Diabetes Care, Research and Education

The center unifies research and education efforts across the university system and bolsters diabetes prevention and care.

Jun 19, 2025

Andjela Drincic, MD, professor of diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism at UNMC, has been named Wahl Presidential Endowed Chair and inaugural director of the C-DIACARE center.

UNMC College of Nursing in Omaha to offer twice-yearly admissions

The college will welcome its first spring cohort of incoming nursing students in January 2026.

Jun 10, 2025

Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, DNP

Munroe-Meyer Guild hosting 56th Annual Garden Walk on June 8

Tour six Omaha area gardens in fundraising event.

May 30, 2025

This garden in the Loveland neighborhood will be part of the 56th Annual Garden Walk.