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UNMC Off The Clock — Gretchen Fry loves to show off her shelties

Dogs may be considered man’s best friends but Gretchen Fry’s shelties are a part of her award winning family. Fry — a research technologist in the UNMC Joint Cardiology Radiology Laboratory — has raised and shown shelties since 1979.

Oct 3, 2007

Want to recognize a super co-worker? Think gold

Do you a have a co-worker or colleague at work that without whom the office would cease to run smoothly? Why not take the time to nominate him or her for the Chancellor’s Gold U award?

Oct 3, 2007

UNMC team part of landmark teen depression study

UNMC’s Chris Kratochvil, M.D., and his research team from the department of psychiatry were significant contributors to a landmark national study that shows a combination of antidepressant drugs and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is the most effective approach in treating teens suffering from major depressive disorder.

Oct 3, 2007

Cross-check it out — Hockey 101 on campus today

If you don’t know what a cross-check is — you could find out today during a one-time class offered to all medical center employees and students on an icy subject — hockey.

Oct 2, 2007

Registration still open for campus alert system

UNMC employees and students can still register for the new e2Campus security system that would quickly alert them should a shooting, tornado or other life-threatening development occur on campus.

Oct 2, 2007

Cattlemen’s Ball raises $480,000 for UNMC cancer research

Thanks to the dedicated people of western Nebraska, the 2007 Cattlemen’s Ball raised $480,000 for research at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center.

Oct 2, 2007

UNMC receives formal notice for continued accreditation

UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has received formal notice of reaccreditation by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (HLC-NCA).

Oct 1, 2007

Million-step Monday — Two teams reach Chimney Rock

Two teams — Varney Express from the pathology and microbiology department and Toews’ Travellers from the pharmacology and experimental neuroscience department — recently had all their members complete the UNMC 1 Million Step Challenge.

Oct 1, 2007

Goal reached and winners announced

UNMC employees demonstrated their generosity on Friday by supplying a final surge of donations that allowed the medical center to surpass its United Way campaign goal of $128,000.

Oct 1, 2007

Sunday health fair to target underserved in south Omaha

UNMC medical students will host the first American Medical Association Medical Student Section Omaha Health Fair at Assumption Elementary School on Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sep 28, 2007