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Durham Western Heritage Museum activities
UNMC, The Nebraska Medical Center and UNMC Physicians employees and their families, as well as students, will receive free admission to a variety of Durham Western Heritage Museum events with a valid student / employee ID. Learn more about reading, dancing, jazz and nursing activities and exhibits.
May 2, 2006
Three to be honored at May 6 commencement
A legendary Omaha businessman, an accomplished surgeon who has worked to improve health care delivery systems, and a longtime rural health advocate from Broken Bow will be honored at UNMC’s commencement May 6 in Omaha.
May 1, 2006
Silver U recipients announced for April
To find out this month’s recipients of the Chancellor’s Silver ‘U’ Award click on Reward and Recognition (the left hand side of UNMC Today) and scroll to the Silver ‘U’ section.
Apr 28, 2006
Run/walk benefits SHARING Clinics
UNMC’s second annual SHARING the Trail run/walk recently raised about $5,600 to provide health care for the community’s indigent populations.
Apr 28, 2006
Boyden receives Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award
Marjorie Boyden jokes that football kept her at UNMC. In reality, it is the colleagues and graduate students with whom she has worked the past 35-plus years. For her outstanding performance and service, Boyden, an office associate II in UNMC’s Department of Pathology and Microbiology, has received the Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award for April.
Apr 28, 2006
Nebraska shows biotechnology prowess at BIO 2006
Nebraska’s high-tech pavilion at the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s April 9-12 biotechnology convention caught the attention of thousands of biotechnology executives, investors, journalists, policymakers and scientists, with its life-sized talking robot, Sprockit; its computerized dog, Sonic; and a team of Nebraskans dressed in red “Bio’s Hot in Nebraska” shirts.
Apr 28, 2006
Increase in term life insurance notice
Because of favorable experience in the group term life insurance program, Security Financial Life will increase by 40 percent the amount of coverage in excess of $20,000 that you possessed on Dec. 31, 2005.
Apr 27, 2006
Aging expert to speak at Harman Lectureship April 28
If you could find out about how long you will live, would you want to know? Though genetics plays a role in living to 100, centenarian study researchers say most people should be able to live to their late 80s in exceptional health. Aging expert Thomas Perls, M.D., will give Friday’s Denham Harman, M.D., Ph.D. Lectureship in Biomedical Gerontology at UNMC.
Apr 27, 2006
Nobel Prize winner worked to solve problems
Nobel Prize winner Irwin Rose, Ph.D., isn’t looking at the science of tomorrow. “I’m interested in the science of yesterday,” he told a near capacity crowd Monday in the Durham Research Center Auditorium.
Apr 27, 2006
Momentum continues to build at UNMC
Since becoming chancellor seven and a half years ago, Harold M. Maurer, M.D., has been committed to building UNMC’s future. At Tuesday’s Annual Faculty Meeting, Dr. Maurer spelled out his vision for the future, while outlining the accomplishments of the past year and detailing the challenges that lie ahead.
Apr 27, 2006