Press Release
UNMC College of Dentistry, dental, dental hygiene students honored at annual Professionals Day event
The University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Dentistry in Lincoln, honored students at its 17th Annual Professionals Day, March 21. The event provided students, faculty and the dental community an opportunity to share professional and academic activities. HONORS CONVOCATION–The following students were recognized for their cumulative grade point average of 3.6 or above […]
Mar 25, 2003
Committee appointed for UNMC College of Medicine dean search
University of Nebraska Medical Center Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has appointed a 15-member search committee to identify candidates for the position of dean of the College of Medicine. James Armitage, M.D., recently announced he would retire from the position Sept. 1. He plans to stay at UNMC, focusing his efforts on teaching, clinical research […]
Mar 13, 2003
UNMC Chancellor Earns Lifetime Achievement Award from National Children’s Oncology Group
Harold M. Maurer, M.D., chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been named a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Childrens Oncology Group, a National Cancer Institute-supported clinical cooperative cancer treatment and research group. Im tremendously honored and humbled, Dr. Maurer said. To get a Lifetime Achievement Award from all of […]
Mar 7, 2003
UNMC College of Nursing Students Earn Dean’s List Honors
Students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Nursing were named to the deans list following the fall semester 2002. To qualify for the deans list, students must have a grade point average of 3.8 or above. The UNMC College of Nursing, based in Omaha, with divisions in Lincoln, Kearney and Scottsbluff, […]
Mar 7, 2003
Wallace Thoreson, Ph.D., recently received the 2003 University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine Joseph P. Gilmore Outstanding Investigator Award for his research into understanding how the eye works. Dr. Gilmore, for whom the award is named, was professor and chairman of the UNMC department of physiology from 1970 to 1987. He was funded […]
Mar 7, 2003
UNMC second quarter research grants total $10 million
The University of Nebraska Medical Center received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03. The second quarter includes the months of October, November and December. We are pleased with the continuing growth of the research enterprise. said Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research for UNMC. The apparent […]
Mar 6, 2003
Researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are collaborating on a $100,000 pilot study to conduct basic research on Francisella tularensis an organism that if used as a bioweapon, can cause tularemia, a potentially fatal disease. The project is supported by the University of Nebraska and Tobacco Settlement Funds […]
Mar 5, 2003
James O. Armitage, M.D., an internationally recognized expert in the research and treatment of lymphoma, has resigned as dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, effective Sept. 1. He plans to stay at UNMC, focusing his efforts on medical students and his clinical and research interests. I have held […]
Feb 28, 2003
The University of Nebraska Medical Center received $10 million in federal research grants during the second quarter of fiscal year 2002-03, which includes the months of October, November and December. We are pleased with the continuing growth of the research enterprise. said Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D., vice chancellor for research for UNMC. The apparent drop-off in […]
Feb 28, 2003
UNMC College of Pharmacy Students Earn Dean’s List Honors
Fifty-two students from the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy were named to the dean’s list following the fall semester 2002. To qualify for the dean’s list, students must place in the top 20 percent of their class and maintain a grade point average of 3.5 or above. The students that qualified for […]
Feb 28, 2003