Newsroom
Rare book featured tonight on NET program
John Schleicher of the McGoogan Library of Medicine will display and discuss a copy of Sir Isaac Newton’s book, Opticks, which was printed in 1730 and currently is part of UNMC’s rare book collection, tonight on a Nebraska Educational Television special titled “Saving Nebraska’s Treasures.”
Jul 26, 2007
New splash pad keeping MMI campers cool
Slowly the boy approaches the pole with the cone-shaped buckets at the top. He looks up.
Wait for it. One more second. Whoosh! A stream of water splashes down on his head. Laughing the boy in the bright red swim trunks runs to the next water station on the newly installed splash pad at the Munroe Meyer Institute (MMI).
Jul 26, 2007
Fifth and sixth graders get hands on at science camp
If you told eleven-year-old Angelica Gutierrez that science camp is boring, she would beg to differ. “It’s a blast,” Gutierrez said. “I love science!” That was music to the ears of Maurice Godfrey, Ph.D., the UNMC associate professor of pediatrics who hosted the four-day July science camp at Liberty Elementary School in Omaha for fifth- and sixth-graders.
Jul 25, 2007
Spotlight on new faculty — meet Vijay Shivaswamy, M.D.
Vijay Shivaswamy, M.D., assistant professor in the diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism section, is one the many new faculty members at UNMC.
Jul 25, 2007
Dr. Persidsky’s $2.3 million NIH R01 grant renewed
Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., recently received renewal of an important grant that will allow him to continue his work on understanding the mechanisms of blood brain barrier injury caused by neuron-inflammation and HIV-1 brain infection.
Jul 25, 2007
Pharmacy students looking for Omaha’s talent
The UNMC College of Pharmacy Class of 2009 is looking for people interested in competing in its Omaha’s Got Talent event Sept. 22, proceeds from which will go toward cancer research for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Jul 24, 2007
Durham Western Heritage Museum display comes to UNMC
Starting in August, the Durham Outpatient Center will be filled with historical photos dating back to the origins of the Omaha Medical College, the precursor of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.
Jul 24, 2007
UNMC and UNO combine to operate new core facility
UNMC and the College of Information Science and Technology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha have formed a new partnership for the operation of the Genetic Sequence Analysis Facility (GSAF), a core facility for the computational analysis of DNA sequences.
Jul 24, 2007
Quadruplets born at The Nebraska Medical Center
A Nebraska family is growing by leaps and bounds. Jason and Jodi Cast of Beaver Crossing welcomed four tiny miracles, a set of healthy quadruplets, on Thursday.
Jul 24, 2007
Million-step Monday — Upper Peninsula pedometer!
Rita Mansfield, a project associate in the UNMC Health Professions Tracking Center, modeled her pedometer for some pictures during her recent vacation in the scenic Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
Jul 23, 2007