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UNMC Today Sweetheart’s Package – meaningful moments
Excuse me for a second while I hop up on my heart-shaped soap box.
Feb 11, 2008
Million-step Monday – Carstens takes command, editor loses track of shoe
With 602,528 steps for the month of January, Julie Carstens has stepped up and stepped into the Gold Shoe.
Feb 11, 2008
Search for latte leads to recruit
They were in search of a latte, but found so much more during a chance encounter at a small kiosk in Paxton, Neb.
Feb 11, 2008
Rural science education programs get boost from grant
LINCOLN — Rural Nebraska teachers will learn how to improve their science courses thanks to an ongoing federal grant designed to improve teachers’ professional skills. UNMC’s Rural Health Education Network (RHEN) has received $59,420 in 2007-2008 funding from the Federal Improving Teacher Quality Grant, which is administered on behalf of the state by the Nebraska Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education (CCPE).
Feb 11, 2008
UNMC, Mark Gilbert to be featured on Friday’s CBS Evening News
A story by about UNMC Artist in Residence Mark Gilbert will air at the tail end of Friday’s 5:30 p.m. broadcast of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
Feb 8, 2008
UNMC physician omitted from Best Doctors list story
One UNMC physician, James Gigantelli, M.D., in ophthalmology, who made the Best Doctor’s in America list, was inadvertently omitted from the initial story that ran in UNMC Today on Jan. 31.
Feb 8, 2008
N.Y. cop in a Nebraska state of mind after UNMC experience
Nebraska nurse Roseann Mastio intended to make good on a promise to donate her kidney to her brother-in-law, retired New York City street cop Michael Manley. But there was a caveat. “You can have my kidney, but it’s in Nebraska if you want it,” she told Manley.
Feb 8, 2008
Raimondo impressed by UNMC’s team spirit
UNMC Board of Counselors member and chairman of Behlen Manufacturing Co. Tony Raimondo visited the medical center on Wednesday.
Feb 8, 2008
New Yorkers find there is no place like Nebraska
Former New York City policeman Michael Manley recently received a kidney transplant at UNMC’s hospital partner, The Nebraska Medical Center.
Feb 8, 2008
UNMC researchers: Estrogen derivative may initiate certain cancers
UNMC researchers are part of a team that studied simple urine samples and found that certain estrogen derivatives can react with DNA to cause damage that may initiate breast, prostate and other cancers.
Feb 7, 2008