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New EDGE District parking garage opens in midtown

The 753-space garage is available for daily neighborhood parking following an opening ceremony Wednesday.

Oct 9, 2025

 Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr. cuts the ribbon on the new city-owned parking garage in the EDGE District, with UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, at his side. Also in picture are, from left, Omaha City Councilman Danny Begley, Amy Thompson, director of campus development for UNMC, and Jen Bartholomew, assistant vice chancellor of facilities, management and planning for UNMC.

UNMC leaders discuss defense collaborations at regents meeting

Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and John Lowe, PhD, spoke to the NU Board of Regents at its Friday meeting at UNMC.

Oct 3, 2025

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

Discounts available for Omaha Performing Arts shows

Performances include ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Twilight in Concert’ and a special ‘She’s All That’ screening and conservation.

Sep 24, 2025

Promotional image for The Outsiders

Register today for SHARING Clinics’ golf tourney

The annual tournament to support UNMC’s student-run clinics will be held Oct. 10 at Eagle Hills Golf Course in Papillion.

Sep 24, 2025

Image of a golf club and golf ball

Omaha Symphony offers discount to UNMC

See some of the opportunities here for discounts during the 2025-26 season.

Sep 22, 2025

Scary Movie Music poster

Nominations open for UNMC’s J.G. Elliott Award

The award honors an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of medicine or health services in Nebraska.

Sep 19, 2025

UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, gives the J.G. Elliott Award to Byron Barksdale, MD, at UNMC's May 2025 commencement in recognition of his decades of service to his fellow Nebraskans in the areas of health care, outreach and public health.

UNMC’s 2025 employee giving campaign ends this week

There is still time to participate and help raise funds that directly support local agencies.

Sep 17, 2025

United Way of the Midlands logo

Virtual reality offers healthy challenge to camp participants

The Munroe-Meyer Institute’s HABIT Camp brought an added element – four campers participated using brain-computer interface.

Sep 16, 2025

Connor Strobel plays a virtual reality game during HABIT camp at the Munroe-Meyer Institute. The camp is designed to allow children with cerebral palsy and other conditions to work on using both hands to complete a task in the form of play.

Build relationships to build trust, lecturer urges

Suzanne Ortega, PhD, past president of the Council of Graduate Schools, gave the Bob and Helen Bartee Family Advocacy of Science Lecture.

Sep 15, 2025

Suzanne Ortega, PhD, past president of the Council of Graduate Schools, gave the Bob and Helen Bartee Family Advocacy of Science Lectureship on Sept. 11. Bob Bartee is in the foreground of the photograph.

Bob and Helen Bartee Family Lectureship is today

Suzanne Ortega, PhD, will present the science advocacy lecture at noon at the Maurer Center for Public Health.

Sep 11, 2025

Suzanne Ortega, PhD