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NU campuses to establish Center for Biosecurity at UNMC
In an effort to capitalize on its growing expertise in the area of bioterrorism preparedness, the University of Nebraska will establish a university-wide Center for Biosecurity to be administered at UNMC.
Dec 16, 2002
Dental, dental hygiene students take oath of professionalism
Forty-seven second-year dental students and 20 third-year dental hygiene students recently signed pledges committing themselves to a higher level of professional responsibility as they begin their clinical experiences at the UNMC College of Dentistry.
Dec 13, 2002
Three Nebraska state senators were on campus Wednesday to try their hand using UNMC’s computer-assisted surgical equipment, reading X-rays and diagnosing conditions through problem-based learning.
Dec 13, 2002
Holiday tea draws UNMC/NHS employees
UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife, Beverly, greeted hundreds of UNMC/NHS employees Thursday during the annual Holiday Tea.
Dec 13, 2002
Davises honored as College of Medicine’s first ‘legacy family’
A family being honored as the College of Medicine’s first “legacy family” has service ties to the College that date back more than a century, before the College was part of the University of Nebraska system.
The Davis family — with three generations of physicians, including Byron Bennett Davis, M.D., Herbert Haywood Davis, M.D., and John Byron Davis, M.D. — is being honored as the College’s first “legacy family,” as part of the College’s 100th anniversary since becoming part of the University of Nebraska.
Dec 13, 2002
Chancellor’s Silver U recipients announced
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.
Dec 12, 2002
UNMC to hold campus blood drive Jan. 2
UNMC will host an extra blood drive on campus from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 2, at the Center for Healthy Living.
Peter Pellerito, who organizes the campus blood drives, said that the extra blood drive was scheduled in response to a request from the Red Cross and with the consent of NHS. The NHS blood drive that is set for Jan. 22 will take place as scheduled.See story for more details.
Dec 12, 2002
UNMC Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., and his wife, Beverly, will host the annual Holiday Tea for all UNMC and NHS employees Thursday, Dec. 12, from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the Durham Outpatient Center West Atrium.
Dec 12, 2002
NHS among first to use ‘camera in a pill’
NHS is among the first in the region to use a new medical technology — capsule endoscope — that allows physicians to see what no one has been able to fully capture before — the entire length of the human small intestine. NHS began offering the diagnostic procedure in mid-November.
Dec 11, 2002
UNMC nurse practitioner named to state board
Lynne M. Buchanan, Ph.D., assistant professor of nursing in UNMC’s College of Nursing, recently was appointed to serve on the Board of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses for a four-year term. The State Board of Health, Nebraska Health and Human Services System appointed her.
Dec 11, 2002