Newsroom
UNMC/NHS segment not on ABC’s Good Morning America
UNMC/NHS did not appear Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America as planned. Bill Cunningham, ABC producer, contacted UNMC Public Affairs Monday to say the segment was bumped because of time constraints. “So sorry,” he said in an e-mail. “It’s a winner.”
Sep 4, 2002
Fourth quarter research grants lift year-end total to record $50.8 million
UNMC received fourth quarter grant awards totaling $15.1 million, bringing the year-end total to $50.8 million — its best year ever. The $50 million milestone represents a 23 percent increase in funding over last year’s $41.3 million total.
Sep 3, 2002
Project to improve housing facilities for UNMC laboratory rodents
At UNMC and across the country, the burgeoning field of genomics has led to an explosion in laboratory mouse populations. Researchers are hopeful it also may lead to an unprecedented potential in identifying genes that cause disease or in possible treatments.
On Friday, the University of Nebraska Board of Regents approved UNMC’s most pressing research infrastructure need — a $1.5 million containment and isolation facility for laboratory rodents in the existing 4230 Building on campus.
Sep 3, 2002
UNMC’s 2002-03 budget completed
The 2002-03 UNMC operating budget has been balanced and loaded into the SAP financial management system. UNMC continued to be mainly self-supporting, with only 29 percent of its funding coming from state general fund appropriations.
Aug 30, 2002
Minority summer research interns grateful for UNMC experience
When 11 minority undergraduate students came to UNMC in June for summer research internships, they had a host of misconceptions and fears.
Aug 30, 2002
Students receive white coats at recent ceremonies
Incoming medical, pharmacy and physician assistant students at UNMC recently received white coats as a symbol of their entry into their respective health professions.
Aug 30, 2002
Inclusive campus calendar available online
UNMC’s Center for Continuing Education, Information Technology Services and Public Affairs have developed an online all-inclusive calendar of events for UNMC.
The calendar, available through UNMC Today, includes all continuing education events, as well as other campus events. Visit the site at http://calendar.unmc.edu/ or click on Calendar of Events on the Intranet.
Aug 29, 2002
Drs. Shaw, Armitage seek help in raising cancer funds
Two of UNMC’s leading physicians — Byers (Bud) Shaw, M.D., and James Armitage, M.D. — will be riding in the Ride Fore Recovery fund-raising event for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Read the story to find out how you can make a pledge or donation.
Aug 29, 2002
Discovery may lead to treating aneurysms with drugs, not surgery
A new discovery by a team of researchers at UNMC will be the featured cover story in the Sept. 3 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, a peer-reviewed biomedical research journal published by the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI). The two-year study was funded, in part, by a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a $300,000 grant from the American Heart Association.
Aug 28, 2002
Prominent UNMC physician fights cancer with bike ride challenge
As the man who started UNMC’s liver transplant program in 1985, Byers (Bud) Shaw, M.D., has used his skillful hands to save the lives of countless patients. Now, faced with his own battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Dr. Shaw is hoping to get a little help from his friends.
Aug 28, 2002