Coming events

The UNMC Ice Rink opens on Nov. 30 and will remain open for approximately six weeks.

NOTE: This list is compiled well in advance of these events. Times and locations are subject to change. Please check UNMC Today calendar to insure you have the correct time and location.
 
Nov. 30 — UNMC Ice Rink opens
Dec. 4 – Board of Regents meeting
Dec. 5 – First performance of UNMC/Nebraska Medicine employee orchestra, Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium, 7:30 p.m.
Dec. 5 – Airing of movie, "Do No Harm," dealing with topic of physician suicide – for medical students, residents and physicians. There will be two airings – noon, Truhlsen Events Center and 5:30 p.m., Durham Research Center Auditorium.
Dec. 7 – Employee Skate Day, UNMC Ice Rink, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. (light refreshments and free UNMC winter hats to the first 200 attendees)
Dec. 10 – Dr. Robert Binhammer’s annual holiday sing-along, noon-1 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center 
 Dec. 11 – Student Senate event for all UNMC students – Free, all-you-can-eat pancakes by the Pancake Man, as well as sausage and orange juice, Sorrell Center Atrium, second floor, 3-6 p.m.
Dec. 11 – Chancellor’s Holiday Tea
Dec. 11 – Science on Screen at Film Streams, 7 p.m., "Home Alone" movie will air followed by discussion featuring Jonathon Sikorski, Ph.D., psychiatry, and Kacie Baum, public relations
Dec. 11 – 9th annual Nebraska Child Health & Education Summit, hosted by UNMC/Nebraska Medicine, 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sorrell Center. Keynote speaker is Sharon Hoover, Ph.D., University of Maryland, co-director at the National Center for School Mental Health.
Dec. 14 – Winter commencement, 2 p.m. Joslyn Art Museum
Dec. 18 – Chancellor Forum with Marjorie Kostelnik (Budget Response Team update), noon, Sorrell Center, Room 1005, will be livestreamed (tentative)
January – Impact in Education Awards ceremony – Date TBD
Jan. 4 – Gov. Pete Ricketts and Sen. Mark Kolterman of Seward, Neb. will tour the UNMC campus, 1:30-3:30 p.m.
Jan. 9 – American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) Research Fair for students, 3-5 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center, first floor, Sorrell Center
Jan. 15 – Chancellor Forum, noon (tentative), Sorrell Center, Room 1005, livestreamed
Jan. 25 – Board of Regents meeting
Jan. 25-26 – UNMC Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s, UNMC Ice Rink
Feb. 10 — UNMC Ice Rink closes
Feb. 15 – Wellness event, "The Ecology of Well-being in the Health Professions," 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Scott Conference Center, 6450 Pine St., open to all UNMC, Nebraska Medicine, and UNO faculty and staff. Guest speaker – Nancy Nankivil, American Medical Association
Feb. 16 – TedX event on resilience at UNO
April 5-28 – Nebraska Science Festival (April 18 – Student Expo at Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Ashland; April 26 – Student Expo at the Durham Museum; April 27 – Public expo at the Durham Museum)
April 15 – UNMC Board of Counselors, 4 p.m. (invitation only)
May 9-10 – Nebraska Medicine to host a Ragan Communications Conference on crisis communications.
May 30 or 31 – 1st EON VR Innovation Academy Graduation Ceremony, 2:30-4 p.m.
Oct. 18-19 – 50th anniversary of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation