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Marcia Shade, PhD, and team win innovation award
The National Institute of Aging prize will help develop an app for patients to receive pain assessment and evaluation.
Apr 4, 2024
![Marcia Shade, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MarciaShade040424-900x600.jpg)
UNMC graduates 42 new community health workers
The trainees took part in the UNMC College of Public Health’s three-year Community Health Worker Training Program.
Apr 4, 2024
![Dejun Su, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/DejunSu102422-900x600.jpg)
Student Appreciation Day activities set for Monday
Activities on UNMC’s Omaha campus, including therapy dogs, snacks and a de-stress station, will be in the Sorrell Center.
Apr 3, 2024
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UNMC, Creighton receive AAMC grant
Both universities will work with the AAMC Principles of Trustworthiness Toolkit in outreach to community partners in North Omaha.
Apr 3, 2024
![UNMC's Keyonna King, DrPH, and Creighton University's Scott Shipman, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/KingShipman040324.jpg)
UNMC to mark World Health Day on Thursday
Two speakers will emphasize the significance of collective efforts in addressing worldwide health.
Apr 3, 2024
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UNMC hosting course on clinical trials involving high consequence pathogens
The course will take place July 30-Aug. 1 at UNMC’s Training, Simulation and Quarantine Center. Virtual attendance also is available.
Apr 3, 2024
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Brain and spine cancer symposium set for April 19
The symposium will update providers on the current approach to patients with newly diagnosed or recurrent gliomas.
Apr 3, 2024
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UNK, UNMC celebrate future of health care education during beam-raising ceremony
Dr. Gold: The Rural Health Education Building sends a ‘powerful message’ to students who want to live and work in rural communities.
Apr 2, 2024
![The final structural beam for the new Rural Health Education Building is placed Monday morning during a ceremony at the University of Nebraska at Kearney.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BeamRaising8040224-900x600.jpg)
UNMC’s Munroe-Meyer Institute pilots new autism diagnostic tool
EarliPoint™ Evaluation for Autism technology could drastically cut wait times for diagnoses.
Apr 2, 2024
![EarliPoint™️ Evaluation for Autism tracks eye movement 120 times per second and has shown a high degree of accuracy in identifying children on the autism spectrum. (Photo courtesy EarliTec Diagnostics Inc.)](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Diagnoses-900x600.jpeg)
Chancellor’s all-campus forum for April is next Monday
UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, will be joined by Chris Kratochvil, MD, UNMC’s vice chancellor for external relations.
Apr 2, 2024
![UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, and Chris Kratochvil, MD, UNMC’s vice chancellor for external relations](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GoldKratochvil020724-900x600.jpg)