Press Release

New UNMC scholarship honors contributions of two employees

Keith Swarts and wife Jayme Nekuda, Ph.D., are recognized with a named scholarship for their commitment to UNMC.

Nov 30, 2017

Oddities in medicine to be focus of Dec. 5 Omaha Science Cafe

Lydia Kang, M.D., will be featured speaker at Dec. 5 Omaha Science Cafe.

Nov 29, 2017

CBS Sunday Morning expected to air Dec. 3 feature on cancer center

Will explore healing arts program, include interview with Warren and Pamela Buffett

Nov 29, 2017

Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, left, escorts Jane Pauley of "CBS Sunday Morning."

UNMC delays opening of ice rink due to warm weather; scheduled to open Nov. 29

Temperatures need to stay consistently below 50 degrees for the layers of ice to form properly.

Nov 27, 2017

Warm weather rest of this week will further delay opening of UNMC ice rink

The forecast calls for temperatures in the 50s for the rest of the week.

Nov 27, 2017

UNMC seeks participants for Alzheimer’s disease prevention trial

November is National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month

Nov 22, 2017

Daniel Murman, M.D.

UNMC Munroe-Meyer Institute adds 3 genetic counselors

Indicative of how genetics field is exploding

Nov 16, 2017

Omar Rahman, M.D., is director of the Department of Genetic Medicine at UNMC's Munroe-Meyer Institute.

$75,000 gift to enhance UNMC training for rural first responders, health care

Program makes use of vehicles outfitted with realistic equipment and high-fidelity patient simulators

Nov 16, 2017

Two common mental illness meds could pose health risk for certain individuals

Combined UNMC, Vanderbilt research team reports results in leading scientific journal

Nov 14, 2017

Zeljka Korade, D.V.M., Ph.D. (left), and Karoly Mirnics, M.D., Ph.D.
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