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Grant aims to improve youth farm safety education

Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health project will develop and expand materials to be used by educators nationally to help keep the next generation of farmers safe.

Jan 8, 2018

The grant will build upon and strengthen the Safety in Agriculture for Youth (SAY) program

Dr. Khan leads WHO disease monitoring efforts in support of Rohingya refugees

Dr. Khan was deployed to help fight outbreak of diphtheria.

Jan 8, 2018

Ali S. Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health, at left, is helping to develop treatment process for information reporting in a newly constructed Samaritan's Purse Diphtheria Treatment Center in the Rohingya camp in Bangladesh. He is working with colleagues from WHO and Building Resources Across Communities (BRAC).

Dr. Wigton to present history of University Hospital

Robert Wigton, M.D., will explore hospital’s 100-year history in Jan. 11 presentation.

Jan 2, 2018

Robert Wigton, M.D.

MMI wins UNMC’s NE 150 Challenge

As a whole, UNMC’s team for the NE 150 Challenge logged 207,237 miles.

Dec 28, 2017

Easi-CRISPR recipe outlined in Nature Protocols

Dr. Gurumurthy step-by-step protocol featured this month.

Dec 26, 2017

Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, M.V.S.C. (D.V.M.), Ph.D.

College of Public Health online master’s program ranks with best

Master’s Programs Guide of 2018 releases rankings.

Dec 19, 2017

New facility boosts accuracy of cellular experiments

Physiological Environment Research Facility offers a place to conduct cellular experiments under precise environmental parameters.

Nov 29, 2017

Christopher Collins, left, and Adam Case, Ph.D., work in the newly established Physiological Environment Research Facility (PERF) that accurately mimics a cell's home environment.

New public health scholarship is established

The Keith D. Swarts and Jayme D. Nekuda Scholarship in Public Health is created by Dr. Carol Swarts.

Nov 28, 2017

Celebrating the establishment of a new scholarship for public health students, from left, Keith Swarts, Jayme Nekuda, Ph.D., Ali S. Khan, M.D., M.P.H., and Carol Swarts, M.D.

Dr. Candice Chen presents HRSA 101

Dr. Chen is director of the Division of Medicine and Dentistry in the Bureau of Health Workforce at the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).

Nov 17, 2017

Candice Chen, M.D.

Book highlights first Native American physician

The Nov. 30 reading will highlight the life of Susan La Flesche.

Nov 14, 2017

Joe Starita will read from his book about Susan La Flesche, the first Native American physician, on Nov. 30.