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Gold U winner Aurelie Villard is a star

Villard, UNMC’s digital media manager, is excited to keep learning and enjoys showing people what UNMC is about.

Feb 7, 2024

Aurelie Villard, UNMC’s digital media manager

Retirement reception for Mark Bowen is Feb. 12

Bowen served as UNMC’s director of government relations for 16 years.

Feb 6, 2024

Mark Bowen

Dr. Ng leverages RAPID program to help obtain first R01 grant

UNMC’s Caroline Ng, PhD, shows her resilience and finds helpful connections on the way to receiving the NIH grant.

Feb 5, 2024

Caroline Ng, PhD

Autism self-advocate Temple Grandin, PhD, to headline SciFest

The animal scientist will kick off the Nebraska Science Festival with her presentation March 26 in Omaha.

Feb 2, 2024

Temple Grandin, PhD

Celebrating 10 years as chancellor

The work of Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, continues in leading UNMC from excellence to eminence.

Feb 1, 2024

Drs. Lowe, Romanik discuss COVID-19, Mpox response

UNMC’s Abbey Lowe, PhD, and the White House’s Nikki Romanik, DO, held a grand rounds presentation in December.

Jan 31, 2024

Abbey Lowe, PhD, assistant professor in the UNMC College of Allied Health Professions and scholar with the Global Center for Health Security, and Nikki Romanik, DO, special assistant to the president, deputy director and chief of staff for the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy

Allison Cushman-Vokoun, MD, PhD, named Varner Educator Laureate

Dr. Cushman-Vokoun and other recipients of the UNMC Impact in Education Awards will be honored at a ceremony Feb. 29.

Jan 18, 2024

Allison Cushman-Vokoun, MD, PhD

Erin Schneider, EdD, named BHECN deputy director

The promotion recognizes Dr. Schneider’s work guiding the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska.

Jan 16, 2024

Erin Schneider, EdD

UNMC welcomes Defense Health Agency for health security tour

A DHA team heard about the med center’s military and federal partnerships and biosecurity expertise.

Jan 15, 2024

At center, Lt. Col Elizabeth Schnaubelt, MD, led (at left) Major Gen. George Appenzeller, MD, special assistant to the Defense Health Agency director, on a tour of the negatively pressurized CONEX unit in December along with (at right) Chris Kratochvil, MD, UNMC vice chancellor for external relations.

Jennifer Blackford, PhD, named chair of NIH study section

Dr. Blackford, the Munroe-Meyer Institute’s director of research, will chair the NIH behavioral neuroscience fellowship study section.

Jan 12, 2024

Jennifer Blackford, PhD