NOTE: This list is compiled well in advance of these events. Times and locations are subject to change. Please check UNMC Today calendar to insure you have the correct time and location.
Feb. 1-April 27 – Carnival of Contagion Comic Book Exhibition, McGoogan Library of Medicine. Book signing and reception will be 4-6 p.m. on Feb. 8. Bob Hall, author/illustrator, will sign. Judy Diamond, Ph.D., University of Nebraska State Museum, will make remarks. John West, Ph.D., Nebraska Center for Virology, also will participate.
Feb. 2 – Panel discussion for house officers/med students, "Medical marriages: how to stay resilient"
Feb. 4 – UNMC Ice Rink closes
Feb. 9 – Heart Walk Dodgeball Tournament with UNMC, UNO & Nebraska Medicine
Feb. 12 – Campus forum, 1-2 p.m., http://events.unmc.edu/ Sorrell Center, Room 3002 (UNO forum will be from 2:30-3:30 p.m.)
Feb. 12-16 – Careerockit 2018, a weeklong event for high school students
Feb. 13 – Distinguished Scientist Award ceremony, 4 p.m., DRC Auditorium
Feb. 14 – University’s appropriations hearing at Nebraska State Legislature
Feb. 15 – Dr. Robert Wigton will speak on history of University Hospital, Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater, noon
Feb. 24-25 – The national Society of Student Run Free Clinics will host its 2018 conference at UNMC. COM students and other will be involved.
Feb. 24 – UNMC’s symphony sponsorship of "Back to the Future."
March 4 – Walk and Roll for Disabilities at Oak View Mall
March 9 – 3rd Annual Elevating the Conversation: Practical Tools for Restoring Balance. Faculty, staff and students can hear Compassion Resiliency consultants Kay Glidden and Beth Reynolds-Lewis lead the following sessions in the Sorrell Center, Truhlsen Events Center:
-Compassion in the Workplace has Big Benefits: 10-11:30 a.m. (This workshop is for university and clinical staff members, leadership, administrators, faculty, non-clinical professionals and students).
-Self-Care is not Selfish: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma: 1:30-3 p.m. (This CME/CE program is for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, fellows/residents, students and other interested health care professions).
March 15 – Joseph P. and Harriet K. Gilmore Distinguished New Investigator Award will be bestowed on Moorthy Ponnusamy, Ph.D., biochemistry & molecular biology, 2:30 p.m., Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater
March 16 – Match Day
March 19-20- UNMC/Nebraska Medicine host State Leadership Conference for Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA)
March 29 – Board of Regents meeting
April 4 – Chancellor’s Breakthrough Thinking Conference, 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., CenturyLInk Center
April 5 – Author reading with poet Adrian Koesters, Ph.D., 5 p.m., McGoogan Library
April 10 – Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., History of Medicine Lecture presented by Nancy Bristow, Ph.D., on the influenza epidemic of 1918
April 13 – Board of Regents campus visit at UNMC, 8 or 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
April 15 – 10th anniversary of Weigel Williamson Center for Visual Rehabilitation
April 19-28 – Nebraska Science Festival
–Student expo: April 19 -Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
–Student expo: April 23-24 – Morrill Hall in Lincoln
–Student expo: April 27 – The Durham Museum
April 24 – Annual Faculty Meeting, 4 p.m., DRC Auditorium
April 28 – UNMC’s symphony sponsorship of Jurassic Park.
June – Proposed start for EON Innovation Academy (to be located in Williams Science Hall). EON Reality is the world leader in virtual and augmented reality training.
June 1 – Board of Regents meeting
June 1-2 – Cattlemen’s Ball in Hebron, Neb. Headliner is Trace Adkins.
Aug. 1 – Board of Regents meeting
September 24-26 – National Modeling & Simulation Coalition National Meeting hosted by UNMC
Oct. 5 – Board of Regents meeting
Dec. 4 – Board of Regents meeting