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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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UNMC keeping up COVID safety, campus growth
Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, offers updates on campus pandemic protocols and development initiatives in his latest forum.
Dec 16, 2021
![Jane Meza, PhD, interim executive director for health security for UNMC, joined UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD, in Monday's virtual forum.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/MezaGold111121.jpg)
Internationally recognized physician-scientist to lead pancreas cancer program
Sunil Hingorani, MD, PhD, is inaugural Nancy Armitage Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research Presidential Chair.
Dec 16, 2021
![Sunil Hingorani, MD, PhD, is the inaugural recipient of the Nancy Armitage Pancreas Cancer Clinical Research Presidential Chair and the first director of the Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Hingorani121621.jpg)