College of Public Health
UNMC enrollment sets record for 21st straight year
This year’s enrollment of 4,387 students is 3.5% higher than last year’s record.
Sep 9, 2021
![This year's enrollment of 4,387 students is a new record for UNMC.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Students090921.jpg)
UNMC enrollment at 4,387, sets record for 21st straight year
This represents an increase of 148 students, or 3.5% over last year’s record of 4,239.
Sep 8, 2021
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The Wigton Heritage Center is now open for tours, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.
Sep 3, 2021
![Tours of the Wigton Heritage Center are now available to the campus community.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Tour090321.jpg)
Tropical diseases course now open for registration
Presentations are aimed at tropical medicine and global health professionals.
Sep 1, 2021
![Jana Broadhurst, MD, PhD, assistant professor of pathology and microbiology in the UNMC College of Medicine, and David Brett-Major, MD, professor of epidemiology in the UNMC College of Public Health](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/BroadhurstBrettMajor.jpg)
UNMC study confirms COVID air transmission
UNMC’s findings on airborne transmission have passed scientific peer review.
Aug 27, 2021
![From left, Joshua Santarpia, PhD, John Lowe, PhD and St. Patrick Reid, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Aerosol082721.jpg)
Forum: Delta variant requires continued precautions
Chancellor: UNMC will continue to follow the science in setting campus policy.
Aug 18, 2021
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Under the microscope: Siobhan Wescott, MD
Chancellor Gold speaks to Dr. Wescott about her role as the inaugural holder of the Dr. Susan and Susette LaFlesche Professorship in Public Health at UNMC.
Aug 12, 2021
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Student Senate officers announced
Medical student Taylor Kratochvil is Student Senate president and will serve as student regent.
Aug 11, 2021
![UNMC Student Senate officers for 2021-22 are, from left, Taylor Kratochvil (president), Hannah Tandon (vice president), Katie Schultis (chief of staff) and Estefania Lanza Rodriguez (treasurer).](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Senate081121.jpg)
Chancellor’s forum set for Aug. 16
Jane Meza, PhD, interim executive director for health security, and Mark Rupp, MD, chief of the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases, will join Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD.
Aug 6, 2021
![UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GoldAOneicon.jpg)
UNMC, iEXCEL offer new look at Delta variant
James Lawler, MD, unveiled new video animation explaining how Delta variant attacks healthy cells and why COVID vaccines are the best defense.
Aug 6, 2021
![James Lawler, MD, uses video animation developed at UNMC's Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning to show how the COVID-19 Delta variant attacks cells and affects patients' lungs.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lungs080621.jpg)