UNMC for the record, Feb. 10, 2023

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Love data? Let’s talk

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library is co-hosting an event to coincide with Love Data Week, which runs from February 13 through 17.

The library’s Love Data Week Open Mic event will be held on Feb. 14 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. The session will start with flash talks about the FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) Data Principles. Then the floor will be open to hear from audience members on their love of data, including how they collect, clean, analyze, preserve or share their data.

Faculty, staff and students from all University of Nebraska campuses are invited to join via Zoom. Registration is required. A recording will be made available for those who cannot attend the session.

This event is hosted by the University of Nebraska Consortium of Libraries Research Data Services group. 

NASA Nebraska EPSCoR research mini-grant available

Proposals are due Feb. 28 by 5 p.m. CT for NASA Nebraska Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) research mini-grants.

The program’s goals are to elevate the aerospace-related research being conducted in Nebraska for future infrastructure building and workforce development opportunities and to help lead to future proposals to NASA or other federal, state or private organizations for funding. These Mini-Grants are different than the NASA Nebraska Space Grant Research Mini-Grant program.

Faculty and full-time research staff at all institutions of higher education in Nebraska are eligible for NASA EPSCoR research funds. It is expected that there will be five awards at the $17,000 funding level and three awards at the $6,000 funding level.

For complete details and to apply, visit this link.

With questions, contact the NASA Nebraska Space Grant staff members by phone at 402-554-3772 or by email.

Buy one-get one deal for UNO hockey

UNMC faculty and staff can receive a buy one-get one discount for tickets to the University of Nebraska at Omaha Mavericks hockey Saturday match at 7:07 p.m. versus Colorado College at Baxter Arena.

To get tickets, use this link. Enter promo code HOCBOGO.

Tickets also are available by calling 402-554-MAVS (6287) or by visiting the Baxter Arena box office on Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Retirements announced

Two retirements were announced this month by the UNMC Department of Human Resources.

Paul Sammut, MD, UNMC Division of Pediatric Pulmonology, retired on Jan. 1 after more than three decades at UNMC. His starting date was Aug. 1, 1988.

Ann Haskins Olney, MD, is scheduled to retire on July 1 from the Munroe Meyer Institute Department of Genetic Medicine. Dr. Olney joined UNMC on July 1, 1986 – when she retires this summer, she will have been at the medical center for 37 years.