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UNMC students receive Harris scholarship awards

Twenty-five UNMC nursing students and graduate students who study cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and dementia recently were honored with scholarships from Norman Harris, an Omaha native who lives in San Diego.

May 12, 2009

UNMC provides psychiatric care to airmen via telehealth

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken a toll on the mental health resources available to troops in the United States Air Force.

May 12, 2009

Schmit-Pokorny receives award from national nursing society

PITTSBURGH — Kim Schmit-Pokorny, nurse manager and case manager in the section of oncology/hematology, has received the 2009 Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Excellence in Blood and Marrow Transplantation Award.

May 12, 2009

VA pharmacists receive preceptor of the year award

Lourdes Heuermann, Pharm.D., Janelle Sellers, Pharm.D., and Jeremy McIntyre, Pharm.D., clinical pharmacists at the Veteras Affairs Medical Center in Grand Island, received the Preceptor of the Year award during the recent College of Pharmacy Honors Convocation.

May 11, 2009

COPH hands out year-end awards

A UNMC researcher, a master’s of public health (MPH) student and a Spanish/Latin American studies student from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln were among those who received awards at the recent College of Public Health awards banquet.

May 11, 2009

Think Green — Sorrell Center awarded LEED Certification

The Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education building has achieved LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.

May 11, 2009

Dr. Achutan leads study that deals smoking a blow in Vegas casinos

Second hand smoking has been dealt another blow — this time in some Las Vegas casinos.

May 11, 2009

Truhlsens honored for their support of research

Research is vital to improving society. That was the message delivered by Stan Truhlsen, M.D., longtime UNMC ophthalmologist, who along with his wife, Dorothy, was honored for their support of research at a luncheon on April 27 at Happy Hollow Country Club.

May 8, 2009

UNeMed celebrates sale of license, creates new jobs for Nebraska

The creation of new jobs in these difficult times was cause for a celebration at a recent ceremonial ribbon-cutting in Plattsmouth that involved UNMC.

May 8, 2009

May 12 workshop to feature Durham Museum photo archives

Join The Durham Museum’s Curator Carrie Wieners on a walk through more than 100 years of photography as you tour the museum’s photo archives in “Eyewitness to History — The Durham Museum Photo Archives.”

May 8, 2009