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Student Senate elections Nov. 11-12
Ballots will be cast this week for another presidential election. But, this time, UNMC students will vote for a new Student Senate president, who also will serve as a non-voting member of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents; as well as a student senate vice president and senators from the various colleges.
Nov 10, 2008
Spotlight on new faculty – Hesham Basma, Ph.D.
Hesham Basma, Ph.D., instructor in the pulmonary section of the internal medicine department, is one of the many new faculty members at UNMC.
Nov 10, 2008
The best present is one filled with meaning. Purchase such a gift at the Holiday Vendor Fair on Nov. 13 in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium.
Nov 7, 2008
Friday Husker pick’em — Kansas
You gotta love Lisa Runco and Chad Kelsay. Last week they went with their hearts and picked Nebraska to upset Oklahoma. To be perfectly honest, I was right there with them. … Needless to say, by the end of the first quarter, Oklahoma was leading 35-0 and Runco, Kelsay and I all had to come to grips with the fact that our hearts had gotten the best of us.
Nov 7, 2008
Native American Heritage Month celebrations at UNMC
The Diversity Lectures and Cultural Arts Series will present two events on the UNMC campus in celebration of Native American Heritage Month, which is November.
Nov 7, 2008
Tuition assistance = the opportunity of a lifetime
Like the MasterCard saying goes, some things are just priceless. Such as the opportunity I was given on Oct. 17 to meet the richest man in the world, the Oracle of Omaha, the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Mr. Warren Buffett.
Nov 7, 2008
Memorial service for Dr. Skultety set for Saturday
F. Miles Skultety, M.D., Ph.D., one of the key physicians who helped begin the transformation of UNMC from a hospital primarily providing indigent care into a major academic health science center during the 1970s and 1980s, died Monday at his home in Omaha after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 86.
Nov 7, 2008
Quick, think of five things others should know about you. That’s the theme behind a series in UNMC Today called “Lookin’ at U.” This week, we feature Lisa Allen, an office associate in the department of internal medicine.
Nov 6, 2008
Western Nebraska to access to UNMC cancer clinical trials
A formal affiliation agreement with hospitals in Grand Island, North Platte and Scottsbluff will expand all cancer clinical trials at UNMC to people in those communities.
Nov 6, 2008
Below are photos from recent Halloween festivities at the Munroe-Meyer Institute.
Nov 6, 2008