UNMC Today - Today's Headlines

Two UNMC students named Presidential Graduate Fellows

Jesse Cox, a Ph.D. candidate in cancer research, and Parama Dey, a Ph.D. candidate in biochemistry and molecular biology, are two of the eight recipients of the University of Nebraska’s 2011-12 Presidential Graduate Fellowships.

Jul 19, 2011

Facilities thanks employees for their energy-saving efforts

Facilities Management and Planning thanks employees who have helped save energy during this particularly demanding heat wave. It’s making a difference.

Jul 19, 2011

Dr. Cowan seeks contributors risk factors database

To date all of the data collected in the Great Plains Health Informatics Database and Biospecimen Bank has come from people with cancers. Now data from people who have no history of cancer is sought.

Jul 18, 2011

Benefit ‘U’ in focus — 10 percent off at CRAVE

From Sunday through Thursday each week in 2011, UNMC employees get a 10 percent discount at CRAVE — the midtown eatery at 200 S. 31st Ave.

Jul 18, 2011

Reminder – Keep the heat off the cooling system

It’ll be hot again today and as such, employees are reminded to help keep the load off the campus cooling system.

Jul 18, 2011

Update your directory information

Employees are asked to update information for the enhanced web directory that can be found at http://d.unmc.edu/.

Jul 18, 2011

Core facility helps Drs. Fox and Sarvetnick secure $3 million NIH grant

Howard Fox, M.D., Ph.D., and Nora Sarvetnick, Ph.D., recently secured a $3 million National Institutes of Health grant thanks in large part to the support of the UNMC Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Core Facility and its director Pawel Ciborowski, Ph.D.

Jul 15, 2011

Last day to renew parking

Today is the last day employees can renew their parking.

Jul 15, 2011

College of Public Health launches electronic newsletter

What you should know about flood safety, preparedness and cleanup is outlined in stories featured in the College of Public Health’s new electronic newsletter, GroundBreaker.

Jul 15, 2011

Employees asked to help campus weather heat spell

Employees have been asked to take some steps to help keep the stress off the campus cooling system during the heat spell that will hit Omaha in the coming days.

Jul 15, 2011