Chuck Brown

UNMC raises nearly $10,000 at Night of a Thousand Stars party

Nearly $10,000 was raised this year at UNMC’s “Night of a Thousand Stars” party held at Pauli’s Blueroom on Dec. 6. The event was attended by 115 people with proceeds going toward the Nebraska AIDS Project.

Dec 9, 2008

Clinical trials office lauded as West Nile study wraps up

Mark Rupp, infectious diseases specialist at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center, recently praised the hospital’s Clinical Trials Office for its efforts during a four-year study of West Nile Virus.

Dec 8, 2008

Campus events center available for university use

The Truhlsen Campus Events Center is now available for use for university functions, as well as events for UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center.

Dec 8, 2008

UNeMed and UNO announce collaborative grant program

UNeMed Corporation, the technology licensing arm for UNMC, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science and Technology have established a joint grant program for researchers, students and staff.

Dec 5, 2008

Tips to help ensure a secure campus

Many of us have found ourselves in a potentially unsafe situation on campus from time to time. You may have come in early or stayed late when the parking lots are nearly empty and it is dark.

Dec 5, 2008

UNMC Off the Clock – nursing student moonlights as a songbird

It doesn’t take much imagination to envision first-year nursing student Katrina Schultz and her fellow members of the Omaha group, 3-2-1, on MTV or in front of thousands of screaming fans.

Dec 5, 2008

Dr. Zetterman named dean of Creighton medical school

Rowen Zetterman, M.D., professor of internal medicine and the associate dean for veterans affairs at UNMC and Creighton University, has been named dean of the Creighton University School of Medicine.

Dec 5, 2008

Sara Pirtle co-authors guidebook on global health

They say the world is getting smaller and for Sara Pirtle that is true in more ways than one.

Dec 4, 2008

This gnome loves UNMC, do you?

You want to know how much I love UNMC? So much so that I’d dress up like a gnome and let my good friend Andrew Nelson manipulate my image in such a way that video now exists of a one-foot tall version of me professing my love for UNMC from the top of a water cooler.

Dec 2, 2008

Dr. Carlson co-writes book on minimally invasive surgery

A new book on minimally invasive surgery by UNMC’s Mark Carlson, M.D, is likely the first full-length operative atlas to include video on how to perform each of the procedures described in the text.

Dec 1, 2008