Chuck Brown
Wellness Wednesday — benefits for student dependents
We’re going to abandon the fitness talk this week and venture into another area of wellness — employee benefits.
Aug 20, 2008
Football 101 raises $25,000 for cancer center
Mary Pat Pelini, wife of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini, presented a check for $25,000 to UNMC Eppley Cancer Center Director Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., on Monday.
Aug 19, 2008
Rural, minority women need more breast, cervical cancer screenings
Health disparities for Nebraska’s rural and minority women still persist, according to a 10-year study of the state’s Every Woman Matters program. The study’s results are published in the August edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Aug 18, 2008
Ground to break Thursday for new public health building
Most people are used to one-on-one, doctor-patient relationships. But a public health professional takes a broader look at the health trends, problems and solutions for a community, state or region.
Aug 18, 2008
CTR seminar to focus on supercomputers
Mark Furtney, Ph.D., vice president of research and development at the Holland Computing Center, will present “High-Performance Computing: Chess, the Life Sciences, Pringles and the Singularity,” at noon today in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.
Aug 18, 2008
High-performance computers = high-performance research
Supercomputers — such as the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Firefly — can help scientists and researchers make research breakthroughs. Supercomputing tends to be transformative in nature — allowing researchers to look at problems they could not even dream about before.
Aug 15, 2008
Remembering Gordy Hauptman
I’m lucky. I probably have the best job in the world. I get to tell the UNMC story. I get to run around the medical center and interact with our incredible health professionals and learn about some of their remarkable successes. This week, I was saddened to hear that one of UNMC’s biggest champions, Gordon Hauptman, had passed away after a five-year battle with prostate cancer.
Aug 15, 2008
UNMC’s facilities and administration reimbursement rate increases
UNMC Business and Finance has successfully negotiated the first increase in its federal Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate since 2000.
Aug 13, 2008
Wellness Wednesday — CFHL to be better than ever after repairs
Jayme Nekuda considers it a case of taking lemons and making lemonade. A broken chiller pipe that caused significant damage to the Center for Healthy Living was certainly an inconvenience for members and many others who regularly use the facility. But the silver lining is that when the center reopens, it will be better than ever.
Aug 13, 2008
Air Force Surgeon General to visit his alma mater UNMC
Lt. Gen. James Roudebush, M.D., surgeon general of the United States Air Force, will be back in Nebraska on Wednesday to speak about advances in military medicine and to see the latest in advances in patient care and medical education.
Aug 13, 2008