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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

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

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

Joslyn announces photography exhibits

The Joslyn Art Museum invites UNMC, UNMC Physicians and The Nebraska Medical Center employees, students and their families to a variety of cultural exhibits and activities. This spring and summer Joslyn is focused on photography as it hosts three photography exhibitions. See story for details.

Apr 27, 2006

Schwartz Center Rounds come to UNMC

In an age of high-tech clinical and diagnostic equipment, UNMC’s Ruth Margalit, M.D., is taking steps to bring the human dimension back to medicine. That’s why it made sense for UNMC to be the first in the Midwest to introduce the Schwartz Center Rounds, a unique forum that serves as a reminder of how to practice good, empathetic, compassionate care, offering a unique inter-professional forum for caregivers to understand and support one another.

Apr 26, 2006