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.
Jan. 25 – Board of Regents meeting (Drs. Brad Britigan and Paul Paulman will make a presentation on how UNMC is meeting the medical education and training needs of rural Nebraska.)
Jan. 25-26 – UNMC Skate-a-thon for Parkinson’s, UNMC Ice Rink
Feb. 7 – Impact in Education Awards, DRC Auditorium, 2 p.m.
Feb. 7 – Reception for Irving Zucker, Ph.D., who is stepping down as chair of cellular and integrative physiology department, 5-7 p.m., The Restaurant, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Feb. 8 – Dodge ball tournament for American Heart Walk
Feb. 9 – Leukemia & Lymphoma Society program re latest treatments in blood cancers/disorders, 8:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., Hilton Omaha (open to general public – sponsored by UNMC)
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
Feb. 27 – Chancellor forum (tentative), 1-2 p.m., location to be determined
Feb. 28 – Nebraska Center for Heart and Vascular Research reception, 5-7 p.m., DRC Commons
Feb. 28 – RFD-TV to air program on rural behavioral health, using behavioral health experts from UNMC
March 5 – Distinguished Scientists ceremony, DRC Auditorium, 4 p.m.
March 12 – Virtual Reality Innovation Academy (VRIA) open house
March 18 – Chancellor forum, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Sorrell Center Room 1005
March 25-April 5 – RESPECT Engagement Survey (HR’s employee engagement survey)
March 27 (tentative) – "I Love NU" Advocacy Day at Nebraska State Legislature
April 3 – Chancellor’s Annual Breakthrough Thinking Conference, 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Scott Conference Center (invitation only)
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)
April 19 – Campus blood drive, 7 a.m. – 1 p.m., Lower Storz Pavilion, Clarkson Tower; to make a reservation, contact Kari Lundeen, Nebraska Community Blood Bank, klundeen@ncbb.org, 402-486-9427
April 23 – Faculty Senate Annual Awards Meeting, DRC Auditorium, 4 p.m.
April 24 – Chancellor forum, noon-1 p.m., site to be determined
May 9-10 – Nebraska Medicine to host a Ragan Communications Conference on crisis communications.
May 14 – Virtual Reality Innovation Academy (VRIA) open house
May 23-24 – National Judicial Pandemic Conference at UNMC (for state supreme court chief justices)
May 30 or 31 – 1st EON Virtual Reality Innovation Academy Graduation Ceremony, 2:30-4 p.m.
July 18 – Campus blood drive, 7 a.m. – 1 p.m., Lower Storz Pavilion, Clarkson Tower; to make a reservation, contact Kari Lundeen, Nebraska Community Blood Bank, klundeen@ncbb.org, 402-486-9427
Aug. 1-2 – Heartland Interprofessional Education (IPE) Regional Conference (Devin Nickol, MD, organizing)
Aug. 6 – Virtual Reality Innovation Academy (VRIA) open house
September (tentatively week of Sept. 9 or 16) – Grand opening events for Davis Global Center
October 3 – Campus blood drive, 7 a.m. – 1 p.m., Lower Storz Pavilion, Clarkson Tower; to make a reservation, contact Kari Lundeen, Nebraska Community Blood Bank, klundeen@ncbb.org, 402-486-9427
Oct. 11-12 — Alumni Reunion Weekend (Medicine, Nursing, Graduate Studies); more information available here
Oct. 18-19 – 50th anniversary of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
October 3
Coming events
A reception for Irving Zucker, Ph.D., who is stepping down as chair of cellular and integrative physiology department will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Feb. 7 in The Restaurant on the first floor of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center.