Karen Burbach

UNMC’s second annual SHARING the Trail run/walk recently raised about $5,600 to provide health care for the community’s indigent populations.

Apr 28, 2006

Boyden receives Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award

Marjorie Boyden jokes that football kept her at UNMC. In reality, it is the colleagues and graduate students with whom she has worked the past 35-plus years. For her outstanding performance and service, Boyden, an office associate II in UNMC’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology, has received the Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award for April.

Apr 28, 2006

Increase in term life insurance notice

Because of favorable experience in the group term life insurance program, Security Financial Life will increase by 40 percent the amount of coverage in excess of $20,000 that you possessed on Dec. 31, 2005.

Apr 27, 2006

Nobel Prize winner worked to solve problems

Nobel Prize winner Irwin Rose, Ph.D., isn’t looking at the science of tomorrow. “I’m interested in the science of yesterday,” he told a near capacity crowd Monday in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.

Apr 27, 2006

Joslyn announces photography exhibits

The Joslyn Art Museum invites UNMC, UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center employees, students and their families to a variety of cultural exhibits and activities. This spring and summer Joslyn is focused on photography as it hosts three photography exhibitions. See story for details.

Apr 27, 2006

Schwartz Center Rounds come to UNMC

In an age of high-tech clinical and diagnostic equipment, UNMC’s Ruth Margalit, M.D., is taking steps to bring the human dimension back to medicine. That’s why it made sense for UNMC to be the first in the Midwest to introduce the Schwartz Center Rounds, a unique forum that serves as a reminder of how to practice good, empathetic, compassionate care, offering a unique inter-professional forum for caregivers to understand and support one another.

Apr 26, 2006

Events planned to carry on Dr. Meyer’s legacy

Funding of the LeeRoy Meyer Award Fund for Excellence in Internal Medicine – to carry on Dr. Meyer’s legacy of quality clinical education for future physicians – shifted into high gear with the recent establishment of the LeeRoy Meyer Web site. Read on to learn about the online auction and the June 3 event dedicated to the memory of Dr. Meyer.

Apr 26, 2006

On Friday, UNMC will sponsor a mini-symposium titled “Educating 21st Century Health Professionals: Clinical Skills Development through Simulation.” This will be the first in a series of mini-symposia, all focusing on contemporary issues in health science education especially in relationship to the anticipated opening of the new Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education. See article for presenters and registration information.

Apr 26, 2006

Summer funds available for Scholars

The University of Nebraska Rural Initiative intends to support a Community of Scholars drawn from various campuses and disciplines in order to build new relationships between NU faculty, Nebraska communities, institutions and regions and others beyond Nebraska’s borders interested in similar work. Proposals must be submitted no later than May 15.

Apr 26, 2006

Dr. Black receives 2005 Alvin Earle Award

Students say Joyce Black, Ph.D., is an outstanding nurse with a gift for public speaking. They also say the she has a knack for teaching. As a result, UNMC students honored Dr. Black last week with the 2005 Alvin M. Earle Outstanding Health Sciences Educator Award.

Apr 25, 2006