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Dental graduate students receive awards at professional’s day
Sixteen graduate, dental and dental hygiene students received $1,400 in cash awards for their table top presentations at the 21st Annual Professional’s Day 40th Annual Student Scientific Program at the UNMC College of Dentistry in April.
May 23, 2007
Maurers celebrate birth of twin granddaughters
Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife, Beverly, welcomed two new grandchildren into their lives on Sunday when their daughter, Wendy Linsky, gave birth to identical twin girls in Tampa, Fla.
May 23, 2007
Nursing endowed chair named for Grand Island’s Pankratz
UNMC’s College of Nursing has established the Bertha Pankratz Endowed Chair in Nursing with a gift of more than $600,000 from Pankratz’s estate made through the University of Nebraska Foundation.
May 23, 2007
Rho Chi Pharmacy Honor Society initiates new members
Fifteen new members were initiated into the Alpha Epsilon Chapter of the College of Pharmacy’s Rho Chi Honor Society during the organization’s 64th Annual Initiation Banquet at the Omaha Press Club on April 12.
May 22, 2007
Pharmacy alumnus finds college lessons still apply
Bob Craig, Pharm.D., had barely graduated from the UNMC College of Pharmacy in 1983 when another pharmacy alumnus, Robert Marshall, Pharm.D., asked him to help out on an unusual project.
May 22, 2007
UNMC to be site for non-Hodgkins lymphoma immunotherapy trial
FREMONT, Calif. — Genitope Corporation has initiated a phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the use of an immunotherapy method for some with follicular non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (fNHL).
May 22, 2007
Heineman approves 4 percent increase in NU’s 2008 budget
The University of Nebraska will receive a 4 percent budget increase in 2008 and a 4.1 percent increase in 2009 according to a budget signed by Gov. Dave Heineman on Monday.
May 22, 2007
Fighting cancer in Grand Island
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story originally appeared in The Grand Island Independent on April 20.)GRAND ISLAND — Even more cutting-edge cancer research and clinical trials will soon be available to patients in Central Nebraska.
May 21, 2007
Red Dress dinner and seminar draws record crowd
More than 600 women attended the Second Annual Heart and Soul Red Dress Dinner and Seminar under the Mutual of Omaha Dome last month.
May 21, 2007
Ground breaks on new Bellevue Medical Center
Community leaders, hospital founders, board members and others officially broke ground Thursday on Bellevue Medical Center.
May 21, 2007