College of Medicine
UNMC team confirms COVID-19’s airborne transmission in leading scientific journal
UNMC’s findings on airborne transmission have passed scientific peer review and been accepted for publication by Nature’s Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology.
Aug 26, 2021
![Joshua Santarpia, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Josh_Santarpia_1043.jpg)
Pilot grant provides impetus for health inequities curriculum
A recently published paper described the development of the curriculum.
Aug 26, 2021
![From left, Rohan Khazanchi and Jasmine Marcelin, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/KhazanchiMarcelin082521.jpg)
Tyler Evans, MD, a dermatology resident, is a former wide receiver for the Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Aug 26, 2021
![Tyler Evans, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/EvansIC.jpg)
Fellowship program director of the month
Dr. Green Hines is the director of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.
Aug 26, 2021
![Andrea Green Hines, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GreenHines082021.jpg)
Karle Olnes is the administrative business associate for the UNMC Department of Dermatology.
Aug 26, 2021
![Karle Olnes](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/OlnesIC.jpg)
![Prasanth Ravipati, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Ravipati082521.jpg)
The UNMC College of Medicine received grant and funding awards representing $11,037,387 in new funding in June.
Aug 26, 2021
![Xinglong Wang, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Wang082521.jpg)
MD-PhD program supports future physician-scientists
The program continues to evolve to serve the medical students who can’t bear to leave the lab.
Aug 26, 2021
![Linda Huynh is an MD-PhD student who will be moving into the lab next year.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Huynh082521.jpg)
COM holds design thinking workshop for students
Theme of event was ‘interprofessional care.’
Aug 26, 2021
![Kate Fiandt, PhD, of the UNMC College of Nursing, was one of the faculty members who worked with medical students at the workshop.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Fiandt082521.jpg)
Immersive Spanish course adapts for COVID-19
COM DEI teams with the Office of Global Engagement to continue the course despite travel bans.
Aug 26, 2021
![Sara Pirtle, at right, with a tour guide (third from left) and students in Xalapa in 2019.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Xalapa082521.jpg)