Students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy were named to the Fall 2008 dean’s list.
To qualify for the dean’s list, students must place in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above. The students and their hometowns are listed below. Maiden names are included in parenthesis.
Ashland — Amanda (Klauck) Gilbert
Beatrice — Emily Hays
Bellevue — Ryan Kolarik
Blair — Elizabeth (Perrigo) Eickman
Burwell — Margaret (Piper) Kucera
Columbus — Canice Coan and Matthew Recek
Creighton — Julie Sorensen
Crofton — Megan Poppe
Gering — Regan Pettijohn
Grand Island — Katherine (Frost) Miller
Gretna — Michelle Anderson
Hebron — Austin Farnstrom
Howells — Stacy (Vollmer) Ebel
Indianola — Jeanie Bayliss
Inland — Erin (Ablott) Kautz
Kearney — Tessa (Smolik) Deyle, Derek Deyle, and Danielle Reinke
Lincoln — Anna (Trosper) Foley, Monica Hollrah, Lonna Hughes, Robert Kurasawa, Dzuan Nguyen, and Ngoc-Thao Phan
Monroe — Matthew Schaecher
Norfolk — Megan (Renner) Altwine
Omaha — Sarah Cox, Rebecca (Seeba) Evans, Ryan Frickel, Mary (Witt) Gargano, Elizabeth Gwilt, Sarah (Vavra) Hebda, Kathryn (Harman) Hentzen, Patrick Mesenbrink, Stephanie (Lawton) Pestotnik, Evan Peterson, Julia Reffert, Daniel Schroeder, Corinne Shields, Adam Smith, Alvah Stahlnecker, Randi Taylor
Ord — Chad Bartholomew and Megan Nelson
Paxton — Tanner Anderson
Pierce — Mary Venteicher
Royal — Jordan Curtis
Schuyler — Megan Kehrli
Scottsbluff — Evan Wearne
South Sioux City — James Bower
St. Libory — Adam Placke
St. Paul — Jennifer Nesiba
Superior — Jennifer Warneking
Sutton — Beth Boals
Wahoo — Brent Cernik and Megan (Miller) Wiese
Wayne — Gregory Schardt
Glenwood, IA — Jessica Chardoulias
Sioux City, IA — Julia (Moeller) Hammer
Winger, MN — Jeremy Gieseke
Maryville, MO — Christy Hanna
Tyndall, SD — Jaclyn (Schuurmans) Dvoracek
South Korea — Jaeyeon Kim
UNMC is the only public health science center in the state. Its educational programs are responsible for training more health professionals practicing in Nebraska than any other institution. Through their commitment to education, research, patient care and outreach, UNMC and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, have established themselves as one of the country’s leading centers in cancer, transplantation biology, bioterrorism preparedness, neurodegenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases, genetics, biomedical technology and ophthalmology. UNMC’s research funding from external sources now exceeds $82 million annually and has resulted in the creation of more than 2,400 highly skilled jobs in the state. UNMC’s physician practice group, UNMC Physicians, includes 513 physicians in 50 specialties and subspecialties who practice primarily in The Nebraska Medical Center. For more information, go to UNMC’s Web site at www.unmc.edu.
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