April 3 – “Living with Cancer in Nebraska,” airs at 7 p.m. on NET1. Several UNMC oncologists are being interviewed for this special program.
April 9 – Culture Fest.
April 13 – Dr. Hank Bounds will begin as president of the University of Nebraska.
April 10-18 – Nebraska Science Festival. Learn more here.
April 16 – Strategic planning retreat for campus leadership team, Marriott Hotel.
April 18 – The Holi Festival, a Hindu spring festival, will be held from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza.
April 20 – Coalition for Lifesaving Cures luncheon to honor Wally and Barbara Weitz, Happy Hollow Club.
April 22 – Mark Vonnegut, M.D., a Quincy, Mass., pediatrician and author of two popular nonfiction books (“East of Eden” and “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So”), will deliver the Charles S. and Linda W. Wilson Lecture in Medical Humanities, noon, Paustian Amphitheater, Sorrell Center. His book on mental illness has been a favorite with medical students.
April 23 – Annual Faculty Senate meeting.
April 23 — 7TH Annual Richard B. Davis, M.D., Ph.D. History of Medicine Lecture, noon (box lunch available at 11:30), Eppley Science Hall Auditorium. Judith Leavitt, Ph.D., department of medical history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, will discuss medical and social issues in American childbirth history.
April 24 – Anatomical donor memorial service, 6 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center.
April 26-29 – LCME site visit for College of Medicine.
May 9 – UNMC commencement in Omaha.
June 4 – Nebraska Neuroscience Alliance Dinner and Celebration, 6 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center, Robert Gallo, M.D., legendary HIV researcher will speak. Call Robin Taylor at 402.559.3549 for more information.
August 23 – New Student BBQ, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza