UNMC for the record

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

Amy Yaroch, Ph.D., executive director of the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition and professor in the UNMC College of Public Health Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavior Health, was one of five researchers to receive the Lawrence W. Green Best Paper of the Year Award from the Society for Public Health Education. The award was for her article “Direct and Mediated Effects of Two Theoretically Based Interventions to Increase Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables in the Healthy Body Healthy Spirit Trail,” published in the October issue of Health Education & Behavior.

Angela Cassell and Tom Ashman

Angela Cassell — a Canadian Distance Learning Program (DLP) Masters of Physician Assistant student who graduates this month from UNMC — recently received the Tom Ashman PA of the year award from the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA). Ashman, for whom the award was named, developed a relationship between the Canadian Forces Military (CFM) and UNMC that has the medical center provide training to select CFM members.

Last month’s campus food drive goal to collect more than six tons of food was met. The medical center community gathered about 12,200 pounds — or just more than six tons — during the drive to support the Food Bank of the Midlands.