Coming events

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.
 
Feb. 28 – House Officer Appreciation Day, includes free breakfast in Private Dining Room C between 6 a.m. and 9:30 a.m. and free coffee until 4:30 p.m.
Feb. 28 – Nebraska Center for Heart and Vascular Research reception, 5-7 p.m., remarks at 5:45 p.m., DRC Commons
Feb. 28 – RFD-TV to air program on rural behavioral health, featuring UNMC Chancellor Jeffery P. Gold, M.D., and Howard Liu, M.D., chair of the UNMC Department of Psychiatry
March 3 – Walk and Roll for Disabilities, 10:30 a.m., Oak View Mall, click here for more details.  
March 4 – Appropriations Committee hearing for University of Nebraska in the state legislature
March 5 – Distinguished Scientists ceremony, DRC Auditorium, 4 p.m.
March 12 – U.S. News & World Report Best Graduate Schools rankings released online
March 12 – Virtual Reality Innovation Academy (VRIA) open house
March 15 – Match Day for fourth-year medical students around the country
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 – "I Love NU" Advocacy Day at Nebraska State Legislature
April 2 – Welcome reception for Keith Olsen, Pharm.D., dean of the UNMC College of Pharmacy, Linder Reading Room, 2:30-4:30 p.m.
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 18 — Victor Dzau, M.D., president of the National Academy of Medicine, will present the Latta Lecture from noon to 1 p.m., Truhlsen Events Center, Sorrell Center  
April 19 – Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy will hold 90th birthday celebration for Robert Binhammer, Ph.D.
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 23 – “Do No Harm” documentary screening, Storz Pavilion, dinner at 5:30 p.m., film at 6 p.m., RSVP here
April 24 – Chancellor forum, noon-1 p.m., site to be determined
April 23-24 – Nebraska Healthy Kids Summit, Nebraska Innovation Campus Conference Center, 2021 Transformation Drive, Lincoln, register at www.ChildrensOmaha.org/Summit.
Some of the highlight activities at the summit include: a pre-summit workshop that will explore food security and access to healthy food and its impact on communities; and a showcase of Nebraska research projects and practice-focused evaluation efforts.
April 29 – Spring luncheon, Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures, honoring Rick and Carol Russell, Happy Hollow Club, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m., cost – $60/person; $600 for table of 10, RSVP here
May 4 – UNMC Omaha commencement, 9 a.m., Baxter Arena (approximately 500 students including the College of Medicine)
May 9-10 – Nebraska Medicine to host a Ragan Communications Conference on crisis communications.
May 14 – Chancellor’s forum, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Sorrell Center, Room 1005
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 – Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy will host educational symposium on campus
May 30 or 31 – 1st EON Virtual Reality Innovation Academy Graduation Ceremony, 2:30-4 p.m.
July 16 – Virtual Reality Innovation Academy (VRIA) open house
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 24 – Grand opening event 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