Press Release
Public invited to free presentation on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Oct. 5
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society invites the public to a free presentation Oct. 5, on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Patients, family members, friends and health professionals are invited to attend. The presentation will be transmitted live from Omaha via telemedicine to Lincoln, Grand Island, Kearney, North Platte and Scottsbluff. […]
Sep 12, 2006
University of Nebraska Foundation awards UNMC $237,000 in grants for research equipment
Contact: Robb Crouch, Director of Public Relations, University of Nebraska Foundation Office 402-458-1142 Mobile 402-304-3085, rcrouch@nufoundation.org The University of Nebraska Medical Center has received three grants totaling $237,000 from the University of Nebraska Foundation to acquire and upgrade biomedical research equipment. The foundation awards grants each year to worthy campus projects. Paula Turpen, […]
Sep 11, 2006
UNMC lands $2.6 million grant for vascular research on kidney transplant recipients
Identifying new risk factors for vascular disease may help kidney transplant recipients lead longer, healthier lives. A $2.6 million National Institutes of Health grant is enabling University of Nebraska Medical Center researchers to examine how non-traditional risk factors could play a role in vascular disease in kidney transplant recipients. Vascular disease is the main […]
Sep 11, 2006
UNMC student enrollment reaches record high
Student enrollment at the University of Nebraska Medical Center reached an all-time high for the second straight year, as 3,067 students are enrolled this fall, a 2.2 percent increase over last year’s total of 3,002. Rubens Pamies, M.D, UNMC vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies, said several factors contributed to […]
Sep 8, 2006
UNMC to ask Board of Regents to approve creation of emergency medicine department
University of Nebraska Medical Center officials will ask the Board of Regents to approve the establishment of a department of emergency medicine. Since 1997, emergency medicine has been a section assigned to the UNMC Department of Surgery. Prior to that, it was part of the UNMC Department of Internal Medicine. “We’ve reached a critical […]
Sep 8, 2006
UNMC to present 2006-2015 Facilities Development Plan
The University of Nebraska Medical Center of tomorrow will be a world-class academic health science center built from a visionary plan that includes a new comprehensive cancer center, additional research towers, more clinical facilities for patient care and new education facilities. It also will be strategically configured with the campus core – a crossroads […]
Sep 8, 2006
Dental Museum open house set for Sept. 25-30 at UNMC’s College of Dentistry in Lincoln
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry’s museum of dental artifacts will be open to the public for free with tours beginning Sept. 25 and lasting six days. The collection will be displayed in Room 31 on the lower level of the UNMC College of Dentistry at 40th and Holdrege streets in Lincoln. […]
Sep 8, 2006
Dr. William Berndt, former UNMC chancellor, dies
William Berndt, Ph.D., former chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, died Thursday at The Nebraska Medical Center due to ongoing lung complications. Dr. Berndt, 73, joined UNMC in 1982 and held several key administrative posts over the next 20 plus years, serving as chancellor from 1996 to 1998. He was the seventh […]
Aug 31, 2006
Undergraduate students take part in research opportunities through UNMC BRIN Scholars Program
The vision of the Nebraska’s Institutional Development Awards (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) project is to enhance the competitiveness of biomedical research in the state by providing research opportunities for students and faculty at Nebraska’s institutions of higher education. For the past five years 120 students from seven undergraduate institutions and two community […]
Aug 30, 2006
UNMC transplant surgeon elected president of Nebraska Chapter of the American College of Surgeons
Debra Sudan, M.D., a transplant surgeon and director of the Intestinal Rehabilitation Program for the University of Nebraska Medical Center and its hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center, has been elected president of the Nebraska Chapter of the American College of Surgeons. She will serve a two-year term, which ends in January 2008. Founded […]
Aug 29, 2006