Press Release
BHECN awarded $375,000 grant to address suicide among veterans
Suicide prevention among Nebraska veterans goal of grant.
Jan 16, 2019
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UNMC graduate nursing online program makes big jump in national rankings
Moves up 16 spots to No. 42 out of 170 ranked schools
Jan 15, 2019
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World-renowned UNMC pathologist, Sonny Johansson, M.D., Ph.D., dies at age 76
His expertise included kidney, thyroid disease as well as head and neck cancer
Jan 15, 2019
![Sonny Johansson, M.D., Ph.D.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Sonny_JohannsonCROP.jpg)
BHECN receives $3.7 million grant
Five-year grant aimed at providing mental health training and technical assistance to groups and professionals in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.
Jan 15, 2019
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University of Nebraska partners with Dept. of Defense to develop drug therapies
Goal is to protect military service members from effects of radiation exposure
Jan 14, 2019
![Rebecca Oberley Deegan, Ph.D., UNMC, Kenneth Bayles, Ph.D., associate vice chancellor for basic science research at UNMC, and David Berkowitz, Ph.D., professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are three of the key NU scientists involved in a project with the U.S. Department of Defense to develop drugs that would protect U.S. troops from radiation exposure.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/DeeganBaylesBerkowitz.jpg)
Jessica Nielsen, D.N.P., remembered as relentless, energetic, mindful, loving
Juliann Sebastian, Ph.D., dean of the UNMC College of Nursing, said Dr. Nielsen was a stellar faculty member and wonderful human being.
Jan 14, 2019
![Photo cutline: Jessica Nielsen, D.N.P., received the UNMC College of Nursing's Kathryn Sandahl Philp Award for Creativity and Innovation in May, 2017.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Nielsen20109.jpg)
UNMC boosts research stature by adding most advanced MRI scanner in Nebraska
Allows UNMC to compete with elite institutions, better understand complexities of brain
Jan 9, 2019
![The new research-dedicated MRI will allow UNMC to compete with elite research institutions around the country and should help the medical center bring in millions of more dollars in research funding.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/MRI1.jpg)
Patients, caregivers invited to program Feb. 9 on latest in cancer treatment
Free program features national experts
Jan 8, 2019
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Climate Change is topic of Jan. 15 Omaha Science Cafe
UNMC College of Public Health professor, Jesse Bell, Ph.D., is the featured speaker.
Jan 7, 2019
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UNMC/Nebraska Medicine to host annual Martin Luther King Jr. event Jan. 21
Omaha City Council President Ben Gray is featured speaker.
Jan 4, 2019
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