Press Release

$300,000 grant to fund behavioral health internship training in underserved

The one-year grant will support stipends for 21 counseling interns from these four graduate counseling programs.

Oct 17, 2016

Possible HIV breakthrough published in Science

A University of Nebraska Medical Center scientist is part of a research team that has shown that they can achieve sustained control of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) infection in an animal model by supplementing antiretroviral drugs with an antibody during and after drug treatment. SIV is the animal version of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), the […]

Oct 14, 2016

Successful Opioid Summit Held in Omaha

Focus on prevention, treatment, and law enforcement

Oct 14, 2016

Cannabidiol is topic of Oct. 18 Omaha Science Cafe

Deepak Madhavan, M.D., associate professor of neurological sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, will discuss cannabidiol and its potential clinical use in treating patients suffering from epilepsy at the next Omaha Science Café at 7 p.m., Oct. 18 at the Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid that is extracted from […]

Oct 12, 2016

Rowen Zetterman, M.D., named chair of ACGME board

As the chair, Dr. Zetterman will lead several initiatives that the ACGME is currently exploring.

Oct 11, 2016

Rowen Zetterman, M.D.

UNMC to hold grand opening Monday for expanded, renovated fitness center

$6 million project will be a ‘game changer’ for UNMC students, faculty, employees

Oct 7, 2016

Omaha philanthropists Bill and Ruth Scott were the lead donors on the renovation/expansion of the UNMC Center for Healthy Living.

Fitness is important to former Husker football player who was paralyzed in 1990

Strength and fitness facility will continue to be named in honor of Tom Heiser, M.D., former Husker football player who suffered paralyzing injury in 1990

Oct 7, 2016

Tom Heiser, M.D.

Cattlemen’s Ball raises more than $800,000

Event has raised nearly $13 million over the past 19 years

Sep 27, 2016

This year's Cattlemen's Ball of Nebraska, which took place at the Lienetics Ranch near Princeton, Neb., raised $805,000 to go toward the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. Left to right are Cattlemen's Ball Chairmen Will and Tory Kerns and Jane Green, Dr. Ken Cowan, 2016 Cattlemen's Ball hosts Trevor and Torri Lienemann, and Chairmen DaNay and Tim Kalkowski.

Board of Regents approves two allied health measures for UNMC

New department created, master’s program established in teaching, technology

Sep 26, 2016

Kyle Meyer, Ph.D.