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Student Senate barbecue event supported Ronald McDonald House
The Student Senate barbecue, held in August, drew 528 students to the Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza. The event was also a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House, and the Student Senate raised more than $500 with a “VIP parking” drawing, Husker ticket drawing, and gift basket drawing.

Dr. Guthmiller honored as distinguished alumna by Northwestern College

Janet Guthmiller, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Northwestern College presented College of Dentistry Dean (and Northwestern College alum) Janet Guthmiller, D.D.S., Ph.D., with the Distinguished Professional Achievement Award during the college’s Raider Days Homecoming and Parents Weekend. Dr. Guthmiller will be honored, along with two other alumni, during the college’s annual Legacy Celebration Banquet on Friday, Oct. 2. Dr. Guthmiller graduated from Northwestern in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in natural science and earned her D.D.S. from the University of Iowa. She received her periodontics certificate and Ph.D. in cellular and structural biology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She is a fellow of both the American College of Dentists and the International College of Dentists and has received numerous professional awards from organizations that include the American Association for Dental Research and the American Dental Education Association.

Bud Shaw, M.D., has new book set to release on Tuesday

Bud Shaw, M.D.

Byers “Bud” Shaw, M.D., has a new book, “Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon’s Odyssey,” being released on Tuesday. In the book, which has already garnered strong reviews from Kirkus Reviews and authors such as Lee Gutkind, Dr. Shaw “relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients,” according to the publisher’s description. “He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient’s husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling to complete a 20-hour operation as mental and physical exhaustion inch closer and closer; and flying to retrieve a donor organ while the patient waits in the operating room. Within these more emotionally charged vignettes are quieter ones, too, like growing up in rural Ohio, and being awakened late at night by footsteps in the hall as his father, also a surgeon, slipped out of the house to attend to a patient in the ER.” The book is published by Plume and will be available in stores, online and by order through the UNMC Bookstore.