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Retirement celebration set for Selaba Travis
Internal medicine administrator left mark on department in many ways.
Oct 31, 2017
![Selaba Travis](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Travis0131.jpg)
Leaders named in academic affairs, graduate studies
Rowen Zetterman, M.D., Kendra Schmid, Ph.D., and Pamela Carmines, Ph.D., take on new or expanded leadership roles.
Oct 30, 2017
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BHECN receives $1.1 million grant to increase behavioral health workers
Grant will provide full tuition and laptops for 70 non-traditional students each year to become community health workers and provisionally licensed addiction counselors.
Oct 30, 2017
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Dr. Bertoni is keynote at Parkinson’s symposium Monday
A record 950 participants will attend event.
Oct 27, 2017
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Cardiovascular medicine celebrates new endowed chairs
Three new chairs and donors were honored at recent event.
Oct 27, 2017
![From left: Greg Pavlides, M.D., Ph.D., John Windle, M.D., and Samer Sayyed, M.D.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/cardiovascular_endowedchairs_6783.jpg)
Nanofiber sutures may prevent surgical site infections
Jingwei Xie, Ph.D., has been awarded $1.3 million NIH grant to determine if vitamin D can produce infection-fighting peptide.
Oct 27, 2017
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New program offers a badge of achievement
The Service-Learning/Interprofessional Education Badge Program empowers graduate students to document important activities that advance their careers.
Oct 27, 2017
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Dr. Nasir leads group of physicians in delivering two-day continuing medical education course in the Gaza Strip.
Oct 26, 2017
![Arwa Nasir, M.D.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Arwa_Nasir_Pediatrics_2013e.jpg)
UNMC experts needed for Nebraska Science Festival
Event, which will be held at sites across the state, offers opportunity to share your love of science.
Oct 26, 2017
![Elizabeth Kumru of the UNMC public relations department shows children how to make "DNA bracelets" at last year's Nebraska Science Festival.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Fest1026.jpg)
Postdoc empowers others through science
The undergraduate teaching experience may be the start of an academic career.
Oct 26, 2017
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