Coming events

Nov. 2 – Open house, Mind and Brain Health Labs, first floor, Clarkson Doctors Office Building North, 4:30-6 p.m. with remarks at 5 p.m. by Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, M.D., College of Medicine Dean Brad Britigan, M.D., and Matthew Rizzo, M.D., chairman of neurological sciences.

Nov. 3 – Dr. Gold has community conversation in North Omaha at Love’s Jazz and Arts Center, 2510 N. 24th St., from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Event is open to the public.

Nov. 3 – University of Nebraska President’s Advisory Council at Sorrell Center; Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, is one of two noon presenters.

Nov. 3 – E-learning student lunch

Nov. 9-13 – International Week

Nov. 17 – Transdisciplinary Conversations, Gen. Bob Hinson and Ken Bayles, Ph.D., speak re NSRI, Sorrell Center, Room 1001, 4:30-6 p.m.

Nov. 19 – Great American Smokeout

Dec. 3 – Board of Regents meeting

Dec. 9 Holiday tea from 2 to 4 p.m., West Atrium, Durham Outpatient Center

Dec. 10 – Faculty Council meeting, 5-6 p.m., Sorrell Center, Room 4053 (by invitation only)

Dec. 18 – Winter Commencement, 2 p.m., Joslyn Art Museum.

Jan. 27 – Student Wellbeing Symposium, Lotte Dyrbye, M.D., of the Mayo Clinic will be keynote speaker. She is an expert on burnout, quality of life, and depression as they pertain to medical students.

March 23 – Breakthrough Thinking Conference (formerly known as the UNMC Strategic Planning Retreat) 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hilton Omaha, 1001 Cass St. (by invitation only)

March 24-25 – Conference for high school students interested in the health professions. For more information, contact Heidi Kaschke, 402-559-1358, program director, UNMC High School Alliance.

April 1 – Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging, will deliver the Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D., Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology, at noon in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.

April 15-23 – Fourth annual Nebraska Science Festival.

April 25 – UNMC Board of Counselors (by invitation only)

May 7 – Commencement at Baxter Arena.