Press Release

BHECN ARPA support helps bring therapists into rural schools

South Sioux City-based Heartland Counseling Services working with three Northeast Nebraska districts to serve students.

Jan 21, 2025

Krista Roeber, left, and Lora Heithold, right

Scottsbluff, Norfolk nursing divisions to accept international students

Starting in the fall semester, the two divisions can accept international students into BSN programs.

Jan 20, 2025

Lepaine Sharp-McHenry, DNP, dean of the UNMC College of Nursing

Community invited to med center Martin Luther King Jr. Day event

Registration open for Jan. 20 event for in-person, virtual attendance.

Jan 10, 2025

Christopher McCroy, executive director of 100 Black Men of Omaha Inc.

UNMC Ice Rink’s skating season opens Friday

The UNMC Ice Rink will open for the skating season Friday, Dec. 6, with a new signature feature and further improvements to the icing system. The visible change is the installation of a canopy over the ice rink, serving as a new decorative centerpiece for the rink, covering it during winter and setting up an […]

Dec 5, 2024

Workers prepared the ice under the new canopy earlier this week at the UNMC ice rink.

Keith Olsen, PharmD, to retire as pharmacy dean

Donald Klepser, PhD, will become interim dean effective Jan. 1, 2025.

Nov 8, 2024

Keith Olsen, PharmD, will retire as the dean of the UNMC College of Pharmacy at the end of the year.

UNMC breaks ground on student housing facility

Under overcast skies, University of Nebraska Medical Center and community leaders broke ground Monday on a new on-campus student housing facility, fulfilling a longstanding request from its biomedical graduate and health profession students. Construction work already has begun on the $66 million, 200,000-plus-square-foot residence hall that will accommodate approximately 300 UNMC students on the east […]

Nov 6, 2024

From left, Phil Covington, EdD, UNMC associate vice chancellor for student success; Pranita Devaraju, president, UNMC Student Senate; Curt Witzenburg of Holland Basham Architects; UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD; University of Nebraska President Jeffrey P. Gold, MD; and Dan Ridder of Hausmann Construction.

BHECN-sponsored Wholeness Healing Center program helps behavioral health providers build resilience

Grand Island-area program helps clinicians deal with stress so they can better serve their patients.

Oct 24, 2024

Jessica Kingsley of Wholeness Healing Center

uBEATS program now reaches across country as use soars

UNMC’s free online program for middle and high school is reaching more students and more states.

Oct 15, 2024

Peggy Moore, EdD, director of the UNMC Office of Interactive E-Learning

Learn about the science of fingerprints at next Science Café

Josh Connelly will discuss fingerprinting at Oct. 15 event.

Oct 11, 2024

Josh Connelly, latent print examiner and technical lead with the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Services Bureau

EDGE District is new name of UNMC development west of Saddle Creek

District will become a dynamic hub for health-focused scientific discovery.

Oct 10, 2024

View north of Farnam Street looking south into EDGE District and main UNMC campus.