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Brenda Kouba’s biggest challenge in recruiting medical technologists is that the program is a mystery to teachers and students.

“People don’t know who we are and what we do,” she said. “That’s our biggest hurdle.”

But, Kouba, a staff assistant in UNMC’s medical technology program, is helping to change that by promoting the role and importance of medical technologists to students, guidance counselors and all who will listen. For her dedication, outstanding office management and recruiting skills in the School of Allied Health Professions, Kouba has received the Chancellor’s Gold ‘U’ Award for April.

Apr 16, 2002

Dr. Maurer maps UNMC’s DNA of excellence

In all living things, it is DNA that spells out the instructions to create a particular organism with its own unique traits. Chancellor Harold M. Maurer, M.D., said UNMC’s DNA spells out a grand vision of what the state’s only public health center eventually will become.

“We must realize that people are the organization and everything else is an asset,” Dr. Maurer said Thursday during the Annual Faculty Meeting. “It’s critically important to the success of the institution. Employee loyalty and satisfaction is what makes this place hum.”

Apr 15, 2002

Beukelman receives speech-language-hearing group’s top honor

David R. Beukelman, professor of pediatrics and director of speech-language pathology for UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute of Genetics and Rehabilitation, has received the 2001 Honors of the Association from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.

Apr 12, 2002

College of Dentistry provides dental care to 185 needy children

For six hours Monday approximately 185 children received dental care they might otherwise not have gotten thanks to 200 UNMC dental and dental hygiene students and residents.

Apr 12, 2002

UNMC graduate programs rank among best in country

Five graduate programs at UNMC have been ranked by U.S. News and World Report among the top programs in the country. The rankings appear in the April 8 issue of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” guidebook.

Apr 12, 2002

NU to cut 31/2 percent from budget; legislators spare deeper cuts

The University of Nebraska must cut 31/2 percent from its 2002-2003 budget, as a result of legislative actions taken this week in the Nebraska Unicameral.

Apr 12, 2002

UNMC’s RHOP program among top rural development initiatives

The UNMC Rural Health Opportunities Program was named recently as one of the Top 10 Rural Development Initiatives for 2001 by the Nebraska Rural Development Commission.

In recognition of the honor, Gov. Mike Johanns presented a plaque on April 4 to RHOP representatives Dan Chambers, RHEN program coordinator, and Jeanne Bishop, director of special projects for Chadron State College.

Apr 11, 2002

UNMC student touts advantages of RHOP program

Candice Dziowgo’s story is a prototype of how the UNMC Rural Health Opportunities Program works to bring better health care to rural communities.

Apr 11, 2002

College of Nursing Kearney Division to celebrate 25th anniversary April 13

The UNMC College of Nursing Kearney Division will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a variety of activities Saturday, April 13. The division, located on the University of Nebraska at Kearney campus in the West Center Building, draws nursing students from a 100-125-mile radius around Kearney.

Apr 10, 2002

Ice cream social April 18 kicks off UNMC College of Medicine centennial

At the turn of the 20th century, pneumonia was usually fatal and insulin, antibiotics and treatment for high blood pressure didn’t exist. Physicians donated their time teaching in the gas lit College of Medicine and students spent their first two years in Lincoln and the second two in Omaha at the medical school campus at 12th and Pacific Streets — home today to the downtown post office.

Much has changed since April 18, 1902, when the College of Medicine joined the University of Nebraska system.

Apr 10, 2002