Ice cream and polka party at the plaza today

Scotty and the Grateful Meds will perform, the campus art feature will be named and free Dairy Queen Dilly Bars will be available at today’s Student Plaza Dedication Ceremony.

The UNMC Student Plaza dedication ceremony is today. Comments start at 11:45 a.m.

The band — led by Omaha philanthropist Bill Scott and composed largely of UNMC community members — will perform at 11:30 a.m. with comments from UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and others following at 11:45 a.m.

During the comments, the name of the campus art feature — which was chosen from submissions by UNMC employees — will be announced.

The band will play again after the comments.

Scott and his wife, Ruth, made the lead gifts that brought both the plaza and the art feature to campus. They also have made lead gifts on several other campus buildings including:

• The Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education;
  
• The Harold M. and Beverly Maurer Center for Public Health; and
  
• The Center for Nursing Science.

The Dilly Bars from Dairy Queen — a Berkshire Hathaway company — will be provided at the request of Bill Scott, a longtime executive with Berkshire Hathaway.