UNMC for the record

Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.

This poster from Jalen Wieseler of Wynot won the top prize during the Nebraska Tar Wars poster contest. Wieseler will soon take his poster to Washington to compete in the national Tar Wars contest.

Terry Huang, Ph.D.

Bob Bartee

Jalen Wieseler from Wynot was the winner of the Nebraska Tar Wars poster contest, which was sponsored by the Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians Foundation as well as the UNMC and Creighton University Family Medicine Interest Group. As a winner, Wieseler will attend the national tar wars poster contest in Washington.

Terry Huang, Ph.D., chairman of the UNMC College of Public Health’s Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health, was part of a team researchers from across the country that received an innovation award from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Dr. Huang, who has worked extensively for the National Institutes of Health in the area childhood obesity, and the team were honored for their collaborative work in this area. Their project was one of three selected by Sebelius herself to be recognized.

Bob Bartee, vice chancellor for external affairs, has been named a 2010 recipient of the Nebraska Career Education Distinguished Partner Award. Bartee was honored for his support of the Omaha Public Schools and for his contributions to career and technical education programs.

Twenty-one faculty and staff members from the College of Public Health will present their research at the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Annual Meeting and Exposition in November in Denver. The APHA’s Annual Meeting brings together more than 12,000 public health professionals to share research and ideas, and stands as the largest such gathering in the world.