Education

BHECN workforce report featured on new podcast

Leaders from the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska discuss the Licensed Behavioral Health Workforce Report for 2025.

Feb 16, 2026

Marley Doyle, MD, and Melissa Tibbits, PhD

Hartman retiring after career of connecting information

The UNMC community is invited to celebrate McGoogan Library’s Teri Hartman at a reception on Feb. 26.

Feb 11, 2026

Teri Hartman

Spotlight on Scholarship to be held March 31

UNMC innovators are invited to submit an abstract and poster for their educational research project.

Feb 11, 2026

A speaker speaks at a conference in front of a crowd with his laptops in front of him.

The future of health care is being built in Nebraska

Project Health is not just a hospital. It’s a vision.

Feb 10, 2026

Animated images of a hospital room, classroom and lab.

Nominations due Feb. 27 for annual faculty awards

The UNMC Faculty Senate recognizes faculty for meritorious teaching, mentoring or service.

Feb 10, 2026

UNMC emblem

Exhibit explores history of citizens fighting lead poisoning

The display, produced by the National Library of Medicine, runs Feb. 9-March 21 at the McGoogan Health Sciences Library.

Feb 9, 2026

Promotional image that says This Lead is Killing Us, a History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in their Communities, Located on Level 6, McGoogan Library, Wittson Hall. With the web link www.nlm.nih.gov/thisleadiskillingus.

Faculty and postdoctoral reviewers needed

Faculty and postdoctoral scholars can help evaluate presentations at the Midwest Student Biomedical Research Forum March 7.

Feb 5, 2026

A researcher looking at a glass slide of lab results

UNMC confers first Doctor of Medical Science degrees

The DMSc degree can be essential for some physician assistants to maintain clinical expertise and grow with standards.

Feb 5, 2026

Front, from left, Alicia Burns, DMSc, Darcy Jones, DMSc, Carissa Bowie, DMSc, Sam Dellinger, DMSc, Tamara Dietze, DMSc, Jasmin Butler, DMSc. Back, from left, Troy Cyr, DMSc, Michael Day, DMSc, Kyle Brown, DMSc, Elijah Geesaman, DMSc, Kurt Andree, DMSc.

Abbey Fingeret, MD, PhD, named Varner Educator Laureate

Dr. Fingeret, an associate professor of surgical oncology who joined UNMC in 2016, called the recognition an extraordinary honor.

Feb 4, 2026

Abbey Fingeret, MD, PhD

UNMC expands nursing partnership with UNO

The agreement with the University of Nebraska at Omaha will streamline nursing admissions.

Feb 3, 2026

Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, DNP, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing, and Melanie Bloom, PhD, dean of the UNO College of Arts and Sciences