{"id":21351,"date":"2004-03-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-18T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2004\/03\/18\/young-scholars-to-tour-campus-friday\/"},"modified":"2004-03-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-03-18T06:00:00","slug":"young-scholars-to-tour-campus-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2004\/03\/18\/young-scholars-to-tour-campus-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Young scholars to tour campus Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Nearly 100 students are expected to be on the UNMC campus Friday for the Third Annual Scholars Day.<\/p>\n<p>The students are pre-professional or science majors from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska at Kearney with a GPA of 3.5 or above. Students will learn about health care education, as well as what UNMC academic programs have to offer.  <\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Office of Student Equity and Multicultural Affairs, the Scholars Day program has grown in participation from 35 students last year and 30 in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>UNMC faculty and staff will give presentations on weight loss surgery, robotic surgery, mannequins designed to simulate patient conditions, X-ray crystallography, brain mapping and tumors, infant mortality, bioterrorism and drug delivery systems. <\/p>\n<p>Students select two presentations to attend. The most popular presentation is on brain mapping and tumors by Vikram Prabhu, M.D. Seating for Dr. Prabhu&#8217;s presentation was full within a week of registration. <\/p>\n<p>Recruiting representatives from UNMC&#8217;s colleges also will be available to answer questions and a panel of UNMC students will answer questions about life on the medical center campus.<\/p>\n<p>After lunch, students will divide into six tour groups and visit two of the following: the gross anatomy lab, protein structure core lab, Durham Research Center, electron microscopy lab, confocal microscopy core lab and robotic surgical tools lab. The tour route also includes an opportunity for students to suture a banana.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 college students are expected to be on the UNMC campus Friday for the Third Annual Scholars Day. 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