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Thirty-seven people took advantage of a free screening for oral, head and neck cancer April 21st at the UNMC College of Dentistry in Lincoln.

May 2, 2006

Alzheimer’s research, scholarship awards announced

Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D., delves into the beginnings of Alzheimer’s disease at the cellular level. Heather Titman, M.D., explores how to improve end-of-life clinical care of patients with the neurological disease. Both have received Alzheimer’s research awards established by the late Col. Barney Oldfield for their promising and innovative work.

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