Coming events

August 11 – Topping off ceremony/beam signing for Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, 3:30 – 5 p.m. Ceremony will take place in front of the Durham Research Center.

August 12-13 – University of Nebraska President Hank Bounds, Ph.D., will visit the UNMC campus.

August 18 – Premier Education Banquet (by invitation only), noon – 2 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center, Sorrell Center.

August 20 – Grand opening ceremony for the Health Science Education Complex on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus.

August 20 – New Student Organization Fair, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Center for Healthy Living.

August 21 – Noon, Fitness Friday – Yoga with Todd Gulizia on the Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza

August 22 – Great Nebraska Beer Fest to benefit the UNMC Global Blindness Prevention Division, Werner Park, more information.

August 23 New Student BBQ, 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza.

August 25 – New faculty orientation.

August 30 – 14th Annual Huntington's Disease Research Walk and Run, Lake Zorinsky Park, 156th & F streets.  Contact Mike DeBolt for more information about the walk/run at 402-980-0554.

Sept. 29 – Special dinner to celebrate School of Allied Health Professions becoming a college (by invitation only).

Oct. 19-23 – Innovation Week (awards ceremony, Oct. 22 at 4 p.m., Durham Research Center Auditorium)

April 15-23 – Nebraska Science Festival