John Keenan

Forecast: Awareness with a chance of flocking

Munroe-Meyer Institute’s Flamingo Flocking Fundraiser for Disabilities Awareness began this week.

Mar 6, 2020

From left, MMI Department of Community Engagement team members Nikki Hackendahl, Melonie Welsh and Jackie Hankins display an exapmle of the lawn flamingo flocks they will be using to spread awareness during Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.

UNMC for the record

News and notes from the UNMC community.

Mar 6, 2020

UNMC nursing student Patrick Nitchals takes Maria Alvizar's blood pressure.

Higher Learning Commission review a success

Peer reviewer visited Norfolk, Lincoln campuses in November multisite visit.

Mar 6, 2020

From left, Janet Guthmiller, D.D.S., Ph.D., dean of the UNMC College of Dentistry, and Juliann Sebastian, Ph.D., dean of the UNMC College of Nursing

Amy Drayton, Ph.D., to lead MMI pediatric feeding

Dr. Drayton currently directs the Interdisciplinary Pediatric Feeding Program at the University of Michigan Medical Center.

Mar 5, 2020

Amy Drayton, Ph.D.

16th annual Walk & Roll draws a crowd

Event raised more than $25,000 to fund programs at UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute.

Mar 5, 2020

The Burke High School cheerleaders were on hand for the 16th annual Walk & Roll for Disabilities.

CTR-MSP now accepting applications for scholars

Grants provide $25,000 to generate preliminary data needed for successful extramural grant applications.

Mar 5, 2020

Nominations open for student organization service awards

UNMC Office of Community Engagement Service Awards’ nominations will close March 27.

Mar 5, 2020

Heidi Keeler, Ph.D., director of the office of community engagement, Megan Vandergriend, president of UNMC's chapter of American Pharmacists Association - Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP), Kelsie Post, Operation Immunization co-chair, Emily Casey Tomes, Operation Immunization co-chair, and Dele Davies, M.D., senior vice chancellor of academic affairs, at last year's awards ceremony.

New faculty spotlight: Meghan Sheehan, M.D.

Dr. Sheehan is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Psychiatry, and a consult liaison psychiatrist at Nebraska Medicine.

Mar 4, 2020

Meghan Sheehan, M.D.

Clinical Trial Spotlight: Irritability in children, teens

Study will look for signals in brain areas that are responsible for irritability.

Mar 4, 2020

Nanostructures research earns CAREER award

Martin Conda Sheridan, Ph.D., honored for work in nanotechnology.

Mar 4, 2020

Martin Conda Sheridan, Ph.D.