The UNMC Faculty Senate will hold the annual faculty meeting today (April 16) at 3 p.m. in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.
UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will give his annual address to the faculty during the meeting. His address is titled, “From Excellent to Exceptional: A Decade-Long Journey.”
Dr. Gold became UNMC’s eighth chancellor on Feb. 1, 2014, as well as chair of the board of UNMC’s principal clinical care academic health system partner, Nebraska Medicine.
Recipients of this year’s faculty awards for meritorious teaching and mentoring also will be honored during the meeting, along with faculty honored with awards for years of service.
Honorees for the UNMC Faculty Awards are:
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Graduate Students Award: Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, UNMC College of Medicine
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Graduate Students Award: Siddappa Byrareddy, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, UNMC College of Medicine
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Graduate Students Award: Don Ronning, PhD, professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UNMC College of Pharmacy
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor of Junior Faculty Award: Rebecca Oberley-Deegan, PhD, professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UNMC College of Medicine
- Outstanding Teacher Award: Jianghu (James) Dong, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Biostatistics and Division of Nephrology, UNMC College of Public Health
- Outstanding Teacher Award: Lisa Ulrich Walters, clinical assistant professor, UNMC College of Nursing-Northern Division
- Outstanding Teacher Award: Amanda Ribeiro Wobido, DDS, assistant professor, UNMC College of Dentistry
A Zoom link for the meeting is available to UNMC on the UNMC Faculty Senate annual meeting webpage.
A reception hosted by Dr. Gold will follow in the Durham Research Center Atrium.