Press Release
13 Nebraska students participate in career workshop at UNMC
Thirteen high school juniors and seniors spent Aug. 2-5 at the University of Nebraska Medical Center participating in the annual Summer Health Professions Workshop hosted by the UNMC Youth Learning Center. Along with time spent in the lab, the students learned how to suture using bananas, about forensic medicine and the wide variety of […]
Aug 4, 2011
UNMC Home Instead Center to hold Country Fair for seniors on Aug. 9-11
Social activities will include talent show, musical performance and informational presentation Older adults are invited to attend the 2011 Country Fair on Aug. 9-11 at the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging, 730 S. 38th Ave. (Leavenworth at 38th Ave.), at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The event — which is sponsored by the […]
Aug 2, 2011
Aug 9. Omaha Science Cafe: ‘Microbiology of cheese: The good, the bad, and the smelly’
“Microbiology of cheese: The good, the bad, and the smelly,” will be the topic of the next Science Cafe in Omaha
Jul 29, 2011
UNMC researcher published in Nature Neuroscience
Research unlocks new details on how signals are transmitted in the brain
Jul 28, 2011
Will work on health planning, policy and finance
Jul 27, 2011
UNMC holds Youth Expression of Health (YEOH) workshop
Banquet and community sexual education forum will close workshop on July 29 The annual Youth Expression of Health (YEOH) workshop will be held July 26 to 29 at Omaha North High School. One of the most successful health education and personal development youth programs in north Omaha, the workshop is sponsored by the […]
Jul 27, 2011
Dr. Peck plays key role in developing women’s health recommendations
National committee recommends eight preventive health services
Jul 21, 2011
UNMC physician co-authors new recommended mammogram guidelines
Jennifer Griffin, M.D., co-authored guidelines that change annual recommendations for mammography for women beginning at age 40
Jul 21, 2011
UNMC receives grant to better prepare future health professionals
A grant will help faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical Center better educate Nebraska’s future health professionals. The Fred J. Kelly Fund, established by Mabel Elizabeth Kelly in memory of her late husband, is an endowed fund to foster research that improves teaching. Administered by the University of Nebraska, the grant will help UNMC […]
Jul 19, 2011
UNMC lab assistant receives research fellowship from Society for Vascular Surgery® Foundation
Will be studying abdominal aortic aneurysms in UNMC surgery laboratory CHICAGO – John Mitchell, a laboratory assistant at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, is one of eight students to receive a $3,000 stipend from The Society for Vascular Surgery® Foundation for a research fellowship. The stipends were awarded at the Vascular Annual Meeting® held […]
Jul 19, 2011