UNMC Today - Today's Headlines

Lookin’ at U – Anne Rivas

UNMC staffer’s longtime Big Ten ties don’t make her a football fan.

Oct 30, 2014

Anne Rivas

ID card changes will take time

Attempts to “pin” new logo to cards may ruin access coding.

Oct 29, 2014

Halloween event will support medical aid to children

Student Alliance for Global Health event will feature food, fun and ghost stories read by Robert Binhammer, Ph.D.

Oct 29, 2014

A young patient and some UNMC students who traveled last year to Cochabamba, Bolivia, during spring break to conduct medical service.

Drs. Florescu, MacTaggart receive Innovation Awards

Marius Florescu, M.D., is 2014 Emerging Inventor, and Jason MacTaggart, M.D., gets Most Promising New Invention Award.

Oct 29, 2014

Expert offers unique perspective on U.S. history

Smithsonian’s Richard Kurin, Ph.D., will look at history of America in 101 objects on Nov. 3.

Oct 29, 2014

Historian Richard Kurin, Ph.D., and Dorothy's ruby slippers from "The Wizard of Oz," one (or two?) objects in "The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects."

Workshop marks decade of nanomedicine research

Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine’s founding director, Alexander Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sc., returns for conference.

Oct 28, 2014

Alexander "Sasha" Kabanov, Ph.D., D.Sc., will return to UNMC for a conference marking the 10th anniversary of the Center for Drug Delivery and Nanomedicine.

Girls Inc., SHARING collaboration a winner

Presentations on health care topics draw interest from youngsters.

Oct 28, 2014

Nora Kovar, a second-year medical student, speaks with young girls at a SHARING Clinics presentation at Girls Inc.

Ebola the subject of Nov. 4 Omaha Science Cafe

Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the College of Public Health, will discuss the virus, its symptoms and how it is treated.

Oct 28, 2014

Ali Khan, M.D., M.P.H., dean of the UNMC College of Public Health

LiveGreen: A green Halloween

Tips for a ecologically friendly Oct. 31.

Oct 28, 2014

Campaign for Nebraska tops $1.8 billion

Effort marks best fundraising year ever for University of Nebraska Foundation.

Oct 28, 2014

Interim University of Nebraska President James Linder, M.D.