Ryan Shaw
Drs. Florescu, MacTaggart receive Innovation Awards
Marius Florescu, M.D., took home the 2014 Emerging Inventor Award, while Jason MacTaggart, M.D., received the Most Promising New Invention Award during UNeMed’s eighth annual Innovation Awards ceremony.
Oct 30, 2014
Storm chaser, Reed Timmer, to headline 2015 Nebraska Science Festival
Meteorologist and extreme storm chaser Reed Timmer — among the few to ever document both an F5 tornado and the most devastating hurricane in U.S. history — will headline the 2015 Nebraska Science Festival on April 10.
Oct 30, 2014
Dr. O’Dell receives prestigious arthritis award
James O’Dell, M.D., a national leader in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, recently received the 2014 Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Research in Arthritis. The award, bestowed by the Arthritis Foundation, recognizes team science in action that will lead to a faster cure for arthritis and related diseases.
Oct 30, 2014
COM Student of the Month – Gage Rensch, first-year medical student
Each month, InterCOM will highlight a “Student of the Month” from the College of Medicine. Students will be featured for their participation in activities outside of medical school and for making a difference in the community. The goal is to recognize students for what they are doing and to encourage other students to get involved in the community. After all, medical school should be much more than studying.
Oct 30, 2014
UNMC researcher heads $3.3 million national study in rare pediatric diseases
University of Nebraska Medical Center researcher, William Rizzo, M.D., has received a five-year, $3.3 million grant to study 10 rare diseases that affect children beginning in infancy or early childhood and throughout their life.
Oct 30, 2014
UNMC study in JAMA finds old drug still reliable, safe in treating Staph
A University of Nebraska Medical Center research team has determined that a longtime antibiotic, vancomycin, is still effective in treating Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections and that physicians should continue to use the drug even though several newer antibiotics are now available in the marketplace.
Oct 30, 2014
The following 16 awards representing nearly $5.5 million in new funding were awarded to the College of Medicine Faculty during the month of August.
Oct 30, 2014
Campaign for Nebraska tops $1.8 billion
The University of Nebraska and University of Nebraska Foundation announced Oct. 27 that the Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited Possibilities, which concludes Dec. 31, has raised more than $1.8 billion for the University of Nebraska.
Oct 30, 2014
Nov. 3-7 – International Week. Nov. 4 – Science Café, 7 p.m., Slowdown, 729 N. 14th St. Topic – Ebola; speaker – Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the UNMC College of Public Health. Nov. 4 – Joslyn Art Museum will host an Art Talk & Brown Bag Lunch event featuring its latest exhibit – […]
Oct 30, 2014
UNMC’s second Ebola patient, Ashoka Mukpo, was released from the Biocontainment Unit Wednesday after multiple tests confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that he was free of Ebola.
Oct 30, 2014
