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UNMC lands $2.6 million grant for vascular research on kidney transplant recipients
Identifying new risk factors for vascular disease may help kidney transplant recipients lead longer, healthier lives. A $2.6 million National Institutes of Health grant is enabling University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers to examine how non-traditional risk factors could play a role in vascular disease in kidney transplant recipients. Vascular disease is the main […]
Sep 11, 2006
UNMC to present 2006-2015 Facilities Development Plan
The University of Nebraska Medical Center of tomorrow will be a world-class academic health science center built from a visionary plan that includes a new comprehensive cancer center, additional research towers, more clinical facilities for patient care and new education facilities. It also will be strategically configured with the campus core – a crossroads […]
Sep 8, 2006
Dental Museum open house set for Sept. 25-30 at UNMC’s College of Dentistry in Lincoln
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry’s museum of dental artifacts will be open to the public for free with tours beginning Sept. 25 and lasting six days. The collection will be displayed in Room 31 on the lower level of the UNMC College of Dentistry at 40th and Holdrege streets in Lincoln. […]
Sep 8, 2006
UNMC student enrollment reaches record high
Student enrollment at the University of Nebraska Medical Center reached an all-time high for the second straight year, as 3,067 students are enrolled this fall, a 2.2 percent increase over last year’s total of 3,002. Rubens Pamies, M.D, UNMC vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies, said several factors contributed to […]
Sep 8, 2006
UNMC to ask Board of Regents to approve creation of emergency medicine department
University of Nebraska Medical Center officials will ask the Board of Regents to approve the establishment of a department of emergency medicine. Since 1997, emergency medicine has been a section assigned to the UNMC Department of Surgery. Prior to that, it was part of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine. “We’ve reached a critical […]
Sep 8, 2006
College of Medicine photo question — week 12 answer
Learn the answer to Wednesday’s College of Medicine historical photo question.
Sep 7, 2006
Boyd-Ford among Nebraska Women of Distinction
Valda Boyd-Ford, UNMC director of Community and Multicultural Affairs, recently was honored as one of the three 2006 Nebraska Women of Distinction.
Sep 7, 2006
College of Medicine photo question — week 12
The UNMC campus continues its celebration of the College of Medicine’s 125th anniversary today with another historical photo question.
Sep 6, 2006
College of Medicine photo question — week 11 answer
Learn the answer to Wednesday’s College of Medicine historical photo question.
Aug 31, 2006
Dr. William Berndt, former UNMC chancellor, dies
William Berndt, Ph.D., former chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died Thursday at The Nebraska Medical Center due to ongoing lung complications. Dr. Berndt, 73, joined UNMC in 1982 and held several key administrative posts over the next 20 plus years, serving as chancellor from 1996 to 1998. He was the seventh […]
Aug 31, 2006