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UNMC nursing students in Lincoln recruit 57 donors during blood drive

During the month of November, members of the Lincoln Division Student Nurses Association (SNA) held a competition that involved nursing students, faculty and staff.

Dec 8, 2008

Burke High choir to present holiday Music as Medicine concert

Sounds of the holiday will fill the Durham Outpatient Center’s West Atrium on Thursday when Burke High School’s Burke Ensemble performs.

Dec 8, 2008

Spotlight on new faculty – Pam Schaffart

Pam Schaffart, instructor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, is one of the many new faculty members at UNMC.

Dec 8, 2008

Clinical trials office lauded as West Nile study wraps up

Mark Rupp, infectious diseases specialist at UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center, recently praised the hospital’s Clinical Trials Office for its efforts during a four-year study of West Nile Virus.

Dec 8, 2008

UNeMed and UNO announce collaborative grant program

UNeMed Corporation, the technology licensing arm for UNMC, and the University of Nebraska at Omaha College of Information Science and Technology have established a joint grant program for researchers, students and staff.

Dec 5, 2008

Tips to help ensure a secure campus

Many of us have found ourselves in a potentially unsafe situation on campus from time to time. You may have come in early or stayed late when the parking lots are nearly empty and it is dark.

Dec 5, 2008

UNMC Off the Clock – nursing student moonlights as a songbird

It doesn’t take much imagination to envision first-year nursing student Katrina Schultz and her fellow members of the Omaha group, 3-2-1, on MTV or in front of thousands of screaming fans.

Dec 5, 2008

Museum of Nebraska art pieces to leave Sorrell Center soon

Works from the Museum of Nebraska Art that currently hang in the Sorrell Center will be taken down the week of Dec. 15.

Dec 5, 2008

Dr. Zetterman named dean of Creighton medical school

Rowen Zetterman, M.D., professor of internal medicine and the associate dean for veterans affairs at UNMC and Creighton University, has been named dean of the Creighton University School of Medicine.

Dec 5, 2008

Portraits of Care – Essay 4

Today we feature an essay by Michael J. Krainak, an art critic who composed the following essay for the exhibition catalogue for Mark Gilbert’s “Here I Am and Nowhere Else: Portraits of Care” exhibit.

Dec 4, 2008