Below is a list of achievements, activities and happenings involving UNMC staff, faculty and students.
The Midwestern Global Health Conference will be held at UNMC on Saturday. The conference is for students, residents, faculty and staff in the health professions, students of pre-med, pre-dentistry and anyone interested in global health. Learn more about the conference online.
Maha Farid, president of College of Public Health Graduate Student Association, and Jeffrey Schmidt, in the Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases, have been selected to attend the Seventh Annual National Graduate Student Research Conference at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They will present posters on their research at the Oct. 9 – 10 conference on the main campus of the NIH in Bethesda, Md. The conference lets students meet NIH investigators with whom they may want to pursue postdoctoral training.
The first Circle of Distinction event for the College of Medicine was held at UNMC on Thursday to celebrate faculty who hold endowed chairs or professorships and the donors whose gifts created the endowed positions. See a list of the 46 College of Medicine faculty members who hold endowed chairs or professorships.
Brian Lowes, M.D., Ph.D., has received the first William D. Angle, M.D. Professorship in Cardiology. Dr. Angle was on the UNMC faculty from 1953 to 1971.