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Health Professions Tracking Center lands contract
The UNMC Health Professions Tracking Center, a unique service for tracking health professionals, will seek approval of the University of Nebraska Board of Regents today to start providing its services to the Wyoming Health Care Commission. The one-year contract would be renewable on an annual basis.
Sep 16, 2005
Constitution and Citizenship Day: Fundamental rights affecting health care
On Sept. 17, the United States will celebrate Constitution and Citizenship Day to recognize the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787. All educational institutions receiving federal funding are required to provide educational programming on the U.S. Constitution on or around Sept. 17 of every year.
Sep 16, 2005
Crews prepare area for demolition
Concrete barricades and a 10-foot tall chain-linked fence are going up where a handful of UNMC buildings will be coming down. Anderson Excavating employees have been installing the chain-linked fence between 40th and 41st Street for the first phase of demolition, which will begin Sept. 17.
Sep 16, 2005
UNMC major accomplishments — 2004-2005
UNMC’s actions and outcomes list, as well as its major accomplishments for 2004-2005, are as follows: A. Enhance and expand the educational environment. Rubens Pamies, M.D. 1.Increase the flexibility of the traditional disciplinary curricula. Virginia Tilden, D.N.Sc., Yvette Holly Major Accomplishments: Determined feasibility and utility of implementing an interdisciplinary scholars track; CON has initiated an […]
Sep 16, 2005
Silver U recipients announced for September
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.
Sep 15, 2005
Nursing research receives boost with renovations
Research in the UNMC College of Nursing will get a boost with the newly renovated Niedfelt Nursing Research Center. The college will host a ribbon-cutting/open house Friday at 2 p.m. in the 5th floor lobby in the College of Nursing. The expanded center provides space and support for faculty and student research.
Sep 15, 2005
Deadly medicine: How the Nazis influenced modern medical ethics
Next week, UNMC faculty, staff and students will have several opportunities to hear Alan Wells, Ph.D., an expert in medical ethics formerly with the American Medical Association’s Institute for Ethics and Patricia Heberer, Ph.D., historian at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, present “The Nazis and Medical Ethics: Context and Lesson.”
Sep 14, 2005
NU offers tuition scholarships to Katrina victims
University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken has announced a new scholarship initiative to benefit students and families affected by Hurricane Katrina. The University of Nebraska’s “NU Katrina Student Assistance Fund” has been established to make scholarships for the fall semester available to help students in a variety of circumstances.
Sep 14, 2005
Minority youth seminar set for Sept. 14
More than 70 minority middle school and high school students are expected to attend the sixth annual Stepping Forward/Reaching Back youth mentoring seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 14, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at UNMC. This year’s keynote speaker is Pfizer, Inc. District Manager James Anthony “Tony” Gates.
Sep 13, 2005
Omaha native returns from Louisiana to attend UNMC
When Mykayla Garrison left Omaha in 2000 to attend Xavier University in New Orleans, she couldn’t have dreamt of the circumstances surrounding her return. With Hurricane Katrina an all-too-recent memory, Garrison is trying to re-acclimate herself to Omaha. The third-year pharmacy student has enrolled as a visiting student at the UNMC College of Pharmacy.
Sep 13, 2005