Newsroom
UNMC sponsors free week of Omaha.com content
Partnership with the Omaha World-Herald allows open access to digital content over the holiday week.
Dec 21, 2021
![Ava Thomas (center), publisher of the Lincoln Journal Star and Omaha World-Herald, toured the Davis Global Center with Vice Chancellor for External Relations Bob Bartee, at right, and Michael Hollins, director of community and business engagement with iEXCEL.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/AvaThomas121321.jpg)
Dr. Lunning helps lead clinical research under new title
UNMC’s new assistant vice chancellor for clinical research will expand his work in the area.
Dec 20, 2021
![Matthew Lunning, DO, assistant vice chancellor for clinical research.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MatthewLunning1220211.jpg)
UNMC discount offered for Shen Yun
Performances at the Orpheum Theater will be Jan. 25 and 26.
Dec 20, 2021
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Shirley Wiggins, PhD, caps 43-year nursing career
Dr. Wiggins, associate professor in the UNMC College of Nursing Lincoln Division, will retire this month.
Dec 20, 2021
![Shirley Wiggins, PhD, associate professor in the UNMC College of Nursing Lincoln Division.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ShirleyWiggins122021.jpg)
College of Pharmacy celebrates inaugural award winners
College names its Scholars of the Year and its College Impact Award winner.
Dec 20, 2021
![Kim Scarsi, PharmD, who received the College of Pharmacy's Scholar of the Year honor, is pictured with Keith Olsen, PharmD, dean of the college.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Scarsi1220211.jpg)
Brandwise requests due today, and no food trucks on break. Plus nursing scholarships awarded and retirements announced.
Dec 17, 2021
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Longstanding UNMC-military partnership will continue
The Interservice Physician Assistant Program, renewed for five more years, originally was established in 1996.
Dec 17, 2021
![IPAP graduates at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center were conferred master's degrees in 2011 from the University of Nebraska and became Army physician assistants.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IPAPgraduates121721.jpg)
Toyota and UNMC to study medical data from high-tech cars
Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center will work with the university to find signs of diseases from driving behavior.
Dec 17, 2021
![The Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center calls the project, "My Car the Doctor."](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MyCarTheDoctor121721.jpg)
UNMC co-sponsors international COVID-19 conference
Abstract submissions on Middle East/North Africa region sought for May forum in Turkey.
Dec 17, 2021
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Nancy Waltman, PhD, retiring after 42-year nursing career
Professor developed an appreciation for nursing, learned at the College of Nursing herself and passed on that knowledge.
Dec 16, 2021
![Nancy Waltman, PhD, professor in the UNMC College of Nursing.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Waltman121321.jpg)