UNMC Today
Square dancing is way of life for UNMC employee
Confined to her hospital bed, unable to walk due to an automobile accident that injured her husband and killed their dog, Barbara Harrison thought one thing. It wasn’t about being ejected from the pickup she was driving or about being life-flighted to the hospital. Instead, it was, ‘I’m lucky to have my leg […]
Jun 12, 2008
“Rite Care” clinics at UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute help children communicate
Three-year-old Ajay only had a vocabulary of about four words when he attended the Scottish Rite speech and language disorder clinic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute for the first time almost two years ago. Ajay was born without femur bones in his legs, the result of a rare genetic disorder […]
Jun 12, 2008
UNMC leadership team to visit seven western Nebraska communities June 23-24
Chancellor Harold M. Maurer M.D., and eight other members of the UNMC leadership team will visit seven western Nebraska communities June 23 and 24. This is the fifth time UNMC leaders have visited communities around the state. “This is one of my favorite trips of the year,” said Dr. Maurer. “It’s a chance to visit […]
Jun 11, 2008
UNMC Community Academy students honored
Three minority students in the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Community Academy recently received the 2008 Outstanding Youth Volunteer award in the group category through the United Way of the Midlands. African Americans Ehiamen Okoruwa and Alexis Dickerson and Native American, Aunum Akhter, were nominated by Lisa Jewell, director of the UNMC Youth Learning […]
Jun 11, 2008
UNMC students train in communities across Nebraska during summer
University of Nebraska Medical Center students are working with health professionals across Nebraska from June through August as part of their health care education requirements at UNMC. The student rotations are part of the UNMC Rural Health Education Network (RHEN), an innovative program developed to help address the shortage of health professionals in rural Nebraska. […]
Jun 6, 2008
UNMC College of Pharmacy students earn dean’s list honors
Seventy-five students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy were named to the Spring 2008 dean’s list. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must place in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above. The students and their hometowns are listed […]
Jun 6, 2008
UNMC employee has special tie to Cattlemen’s Ball
This year’s Cattlemen’s Ball is extra special to Jim Temme. Temme, associate director of the division of Radiation Science Technology Education in the School of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, was born and raised in Petersburg, Neb., which is only about five miles from the site of this year’s […]
Jun 3, 2008
UNMC hosts prestigious International Student Research Forum
Graduate students from some of the world’s most prestigious institutions are in Omaha this week for the International Student Research Forum at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. This marks the first time the gathering has been held in the United States. For the past two years, UNMC has sent students to the forum […]
Jun 3, 2008
UNMC College of Dentistry to provide free dental services to Panhandle youths
Eighty students, dental faculty and staff from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry will spend June 6-7 tending to the oral health of 200 children in western Nebraska. This is the fifth year in which the dental college will travel across the state to offer dental services, at no cost, to children […]
Jun 3, 2008
UNMC pediatric neurologist, Paul Larsen, M.D., receives the 2007 Alvin Earle Award
Paul Larsen, M.D., professor of pediatrics and neurological sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has received the Alvin M. Earle Outstanding Health Sciences Educator Award, the only teaching award initiated and given by UNMC students. The Alvin Earle Award is presented annually to an instructor who demonstrates sincere interest in his or her […]
May 30, 2008