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Thanks to UNMC faculty and staff and the staff and students at the UNMC Youth Learning Center, the annual Project Hope Food Drive that was conducted during the months of November and December was a huge success.

Feb 1, 2005

New treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer

Physicians at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and The Nebraska Medical Center have developed a unique protocol using high-dose radiation and chemotherapy to treat patients with advanced prostate cancer. The new treatment gives hope to a patient group whose prognosis always has been very poor.

Jan 31, 2005

Milliken: Future of Nebraska linked to vital University

James B. Milliken was installed Thursday as the sixth president of the University of Nebraska at a ceremony in the Strauss Performing Arts Center at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

Jan 28, 2005

UNMC College of Dentistry surpasses goals

Meeting milestone after milestone in 2004, the UNMC College of Dentistry is developing creative ways to circumvent the growing problems of access to oral health care and the shortage of dentists practicing in rural areas.

Jan 27, 2005

Life at the Buduburam Refugee Camp

Valda Boyd Ford, director of UNMC’s Community and Multicultural Affairs, has spent the past three weeks at the 140-acre Buduburam Refugee Camp, the largest camp in Ghana with roughly 42,000 people. Since her arrival, Ford has kept in touch with UNMC colleagues via e-mail, thanks to an Internet cafe near her “hotel” bungalow. UNMC Today will share some of Ford’s experiences at the Buduburam Refugee Camp, beginning today with some of her initial observations.

Jan 26, 2005

UNMC receives recognition for support of Guard, Reserve

Brig. Gen. Mark Musick, chief of staff, Joint Forces Headquarters, Nebraska Air National Guard, recently acknowledged UNMC for its support of “citizen-soldiers.”

Jan 25, 2005

Walk or don’t walk – a lesson in safety

Hospital representatives recently met with the city traffic engineer to discuss the timing of the cross walk light at 42nd Street and Dewey Avenue. Some employees have complained the light is not timed to allow them to cross. Although the traffic engineer will see if the timing of the signal can be adjusted, it was determined the timing is adequate for pedestrians to cross if they understand how the signal operates.

Jan 25, 2005

Soldier returns from Iraq, graduates from College of Pharmacy

While his classmates graduated from the College of Pharmacy in May 2003, Bob Moser, Pharm.D., commanded convoys of U.S. trucks between Kuwaiti ports and troops in Iraq. A year and a half later, Dr. Moser received his doctor of pharmacy degree at UNMC’s winter commencement ceremonies.

Jan 24, 2005

Sawyer Brown to perform at 2005 Cattlemen’s Ball

The country rock group Sawyer Brown will be featured at the 2005 Cattlemen’s Ball of Nebraska on Saturday, June 4, at the Herb Albers Feedlot six miles north of Wisner, Neb. The Cattlemen’s Ball is the premier fund-raising event for cancer research at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center.

Jan 21, 2005

No evidence contamination stems from Nebraska lab

Recent stories in the Boston Globe about three Boston University researchers who became infected last year with tularemia allege the contamination came from a lab at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. That’s not the case, said officials at UNL and UNMC, which comprise the University of Nebraska Center for Biosecurity.

Jan 21, 2005