Press Release
The Olson Center for Womens Health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center invites the public to a seminar on menopause titled, Making Sense of Midlife Changes, on Thursday, May 8, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Omaha Marriott in Regency, 10220 Regency Circle. The seminar will include dinner and keynote speaker Terri Malucci, […]
Apr 10, 2003
Munroe-Meyer Institute Guild to hold 36th Annual Garden Walk on June 8
The 36th Annual Garden Walk will be held Sunday, June 8, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (rain or shine). Sponsored by the Munroe-Meyer Institute Guild at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, proceeds will support MMIs therapeutic, training, and research activities benefiting children, youth and adults with developmental disabilities and chronic handicapping conditions. Advance […]
Apr 7, 2003
A UNMC cancer researcher, Ercole Cavalieri, D.Sc., is heading a $5.6 million multi-institutional research study to investigate the role estrogen plays in causing breast cancer and look for new approaches to detecting and preventing the disease. The four-year grant is called the Breast Cancer Center of Excellence Award and comes from the Department of Defense […]
Apr 7, 2003
UNMC programs rank among the best
U.S. News &World Report has ranked five colleges or programs at the University of Nebraska Medical Center among the top graduate programs in the country, as well as recognizing the UNMC College of Medicine as 67th among the top research medical schools. Rankings of graduate programs include all post-baccalaureate areas, including those in the health […]
Apr 4, 2003
118 UNMC Medical Students Receive Residency Training Assignments Through Match Day Program
A total of 118 senior medical students at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine have received their residency assignments in 30 states through the National Resident Matching Program. The program, a private, not-for-profit corporation, was established in 1952 to provide a uniform date of appointment to residency positions, which last from three […]
Mar 26, 2003
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 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 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