Press Release
Undergrads from across the state attend AHEC workshop at UNMC
The students were on campus for a week-long, one-credit course, “Health Professions Opportunities Workshop: Integration of Prevention and Population Health Across the Health Professions,” led by AHEC in the Department of Family Medicine.
May 17, 2019
![Reacting to a simulated cardiac arrest are, from left, Tobi Lawani, Emily Hand, Madison Coulter and Jarred Glinn.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Sim_photo.jpg)
Popular Owl Ride event returns on Saturday, July 13
Nighttime bike ride assists adults with developmental disabilities
May 16, 2019
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Fremont group donates $60,000 to support Alzheimer’s research at UNMC
Group’s total contribution now exceeds $215,000 since 2014
May 16, 2019
![Marv Welstead, 98, has been a driving force in raising money in the Fremont area that will go toward Alzheimer's research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Welstead's wife, Jean, died in 2009 after an eight-year battle with Alzheimer's.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Marvin_Welstead_2014_horizontal.jpg)
Potential disease-modifying drug for osteoarthritis is identified
Breakthrough by UNMC/Children’s researchers is published in major scientific journal
May 15, 2019
![Anna Spagnoli, M.D., and Tieshi Li, Ph.D., headed the research team that discovered a potential disease-modifying drug for osteoarthritis.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LiSpag0515.jpg)
Zachary Meyer, M.D., of Grand Island receives 2019 Koefoot Award
The Koefoot Award was created in 2005 in memory of Theodore Koefoot, M.D. He was a charter preceptor for UNMC’s Rural Family Medicine Preceptorship.
May 13, 2019
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All of Us Research Program visiting Omaha and Grand Island
Nebraskans encouraged to help accelerate, improve research during May stops
May 10, 2019
![The traveling "All of Us" Journey research buses will be in Omaha May 14-17 and in Grand Island May 21-24.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/BusPhoto.jpg)
Nebraska LEAD Fellows visit UNMC
Tour Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center as well as research laboratory
May 10, 2019
![Here's the group of Nebraska LEAD Fellows who visited UNMC recently.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/LEADFellows2019.jpg)
UNMC/Nebraska Medicine/UNO have more than $5 billion impact on state’s economy
Three organizations have far-reaching impact on Nebraska’s growth, prosperity
May 9, 2019
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Well owners in flooded areas advised to have well water tested
Licensed water well contractors should be hired to do testing
May 7, 2019
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Hearing loss is topic of May 14 Omaha Science Cafe
UNMC neurotologist, Jonathan Hatch,M.D., is featured speaker.
May 6, 2019
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