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Sharon Stoolman, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics, presents Cassandra Susman, M.D., house officer III in the department of pediatrics, with the 2008 House Officer Clerkship Teaching Award at the sixth annual Pediatric Research Forum.
Aug 19, 2008
UNMC seeks nominations for J.G. (Jack) Elliott Award
UNMC is currently accepting nominations for the 2009 J.G. (Jack) Elliott Award.
Aug 19, 2008
Football 101 raises $25,000 for cancer center
Mary Pat Pelini, wife of Nebraska football coach Bo Pelini, presented a check for $25,000 to UNMC Eppley Cancer Center Director Ken Cowan, M.D., Ph.D., on Monday.
Aug 19, 2008
Wife of UNMC dental student hurdles into Olympic finals
Priscilla Lopes-Schliep — wife of UNMC dental student, Bronsen Schliep — kept her Olympic dream alive on Monday night in Beijing (or Monday morning in Nebraska).
Aug 19, 2008
Rural, minority women need more breast, cervical cancer screenings
Health disparities for Nebraska’s rural and minority women still persist, according to a 10-year study of the state’s Every Woman Matters program. The study’s results are published in the August edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
Aug 18, 2008
Ground to break Thursday for new public health building
Most people are used to one-on-one, doctor-patient relationships. But a public health professional takes a broader look at the health trends, problems and solutions for a community, state or region.
Aug 18, 2008
CTR seminar to focus on supercomputers
Mark Furtney, Ph.D., vice president of research and development at the Holland Computing Center, will present “High-Performance Computing: Chess, the Life Sciences, Pringles and the Singularity,” at noon today in the Eppley Science Hall Amphitheater.
Aug 18, 2008
Latest Silver ‘U’ recipients announced
To find out this month’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Silver ‘U’ Award click on Reward and Recognition (the left hand side of UNMC Today) and scroll to the Silver ‘U’ section.
Aug 18, 2008
High-performance computers = high-performance research
Supercomputers — such as the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Firefly — can help scientists and researchers make research breakthroughs. Supercomputing tends to be transformative in nature — allowing researchers to look at problems they could not even dream about before.
Aug 15, 2008
UNMC selected for Heritage Award
For its active role to improve the community, UNMC received this year’s Heritage Award from Ak-Sar-Ben’s River City Roundup (ARCR). UNMC accepted the Heritage Award during the Ninth Annual Buckaroo Bash fundraiser on Saturday.
Aug 15, 2008