Press Release

UNMC to host national modeling, simulation meeting

Improving human performance, effectiveness will be focus of meeting

Aug 22, 2018

CON, CAHP offer free screenings Sept. 8 for Special Olympics athletes

UNMC nursing and allied health students will benefit through both the educational and service experience.

Aug 20, 2018

Mary Girard, College of Nursing Kearney Division

Ten undergraduate students awarded Holland Future Scientist prizes

Students competed for top prizes at annual scientific meeting.

Aug 14, 2018

Winner of the oral presentation pictured left to right are: Tyler Rollman, Andrew Pham, Mika Caplan, Molly Myers and Eilidh Chowanec

UNMC to award degrees Aug. 17 to 217 students

Summer 2018 commencement

Aug 14, 2018

Former UNMC faculty member named Nebraska Medicine CEO

The native Nebraskan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biochemistry and microbiology from Iowa State University and his medical degree with distinction from UNMC.

Aug 8, 2018

Kelly Betts, Ph.D., named assistant dean of College of Nursing in Scottsbluff

She will succeed Susan Wilhelm Ph.D., who has served as assistant dean since 2005.

Aug 7, 2018

Kelly Betts, Ed.D.

Nursing study to evaluate if smartphone can help rural men with weight loss

Study designed with input from northeast Nebraska men and will reflect their preferences for mobile health technologies that fit their unique lifestyle and workplace needs.

Aug 6, 2018

UNMC’s $135 million in research funding sets record, again

Increase in number of grants, number of unique principal investigators, average size of grants, and number of large (center) grants.

Aug 6, 2018

Jennifer Larsen, M.D.

ALS topic of Aug. 14 Omaha Science Cafe

Amy Nordness, Ph.D., director of speech-language pathology at the Munroe-Meyer Institute for Genetics and Rehabilitation, and Shannon Todd, M.S.W., a care services specialist with The ALS Association Mid-America Chapter, will discuss “The Eyes Have It – How the Eyes Keep People with ALS Connected to the World” at the next Omaha Science Cafe.

Aug 1, 2018

UNMC conducts biocontainment research, training for Department of Defense

Evaluating equipment, procedures used in airlifting patients in insolation systems

Jul 31, 2018

Airmen from the 628th and 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadrons transport a simulated highly infectious patient during a training exercise with UNMC-led investigators. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Joshua Maund)