Newsroom

A list of UNMC employees who have recently reached one of the 250,000-step markers in the 1 Million Step Challenge.

Jun 25, 2007

Web cams show progress on Sorrell Center, RCE II

Construction progress on the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education and the Research Center of Excellence II can be tracked as it happens on the Construction Blog thanks to Web camera’s focused on the two work sites.

Jun 25, 2007

Second class of Chinese nursing students spend a month at UNMC

For the second-straight year, a group of four nursing students from China spent about a month at UNMC. The students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (SJTUSM) arrived in Omaha on April 13 and left on May 12.

Jun 22, 2007

Spotlight on new faculty — Michael Brattain, Ph.D.

Michael Brattain, Ph.D., associate director of basic research at the Eppley Cancer Center, is among the many new faculty members at UNMC.

Jun 22, 2007

Last chance to renew parking passes online

Friday is the last day UNMC employees can renew parking passes online.

Jun 22, 2007

Dr. Yarington, first chair of otolaryngology, dies

Brig. Gen. C. Thomas Yarington Jr., M.D., who started the UNMC Department of Otolaryngology in 1968, died May 30, in Seattle. He was 73.

Jun 21, 2007

BRIN scholars on campus — meet Richie Nelson

Twenty-five students from eight different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/ Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program. … Today, we meet Richie Nelson, one of the new BRIN scholars on campus.

Jun 21, 2007

MMI’s Anderson brother of a real space cadet

Scientists at the cytogenetics laboratory at the Munroe-Meyer Institute recently took a call from the International Space Station. … The only problem was the scientist whom the call was intended for, Kirby Anderson, wasn’t in the office. He was still in Florida as part of a vacation during which he saw his older brother, astronaut Clayton Anderson, launched into orbit on the Space Shuttle Atlantis.

Jun 21, 2007

BRIN scholars on campus — meet Helen Kraye

Twenty-five students from eight different undergraduate and community college programs have joined the Institutional Development Award Program (IDeA) Networks of Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE)/ Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (BRIN) program. …
Today, we meet Helen Kraye, one of the new BRIN scholars on campus.

Jun 20, 2007

Program aimed at effectively using new teaching technology

With technologically enhanced classrooms and enough computerized gadgets to make NASA jealous, UNMC faculty will confront a new world of educational technology when the Michael F. Sorrell Center for Health Science Education opens in 2008.

Jun 20, 2007