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Grant to increase COVID-19 testing availability
UNMC, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center awarded NIH grant to help migrant agricultural workers, families stay healthy.
Aug 9, 2021
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Talk IT Thru: Managing Zoom through the IT software center
Users can install Zoom Desktop client, Zoom Outlook calendar plugin.
Aug 9, 2021
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Cloth masks available for new faculty, staff and students.
Aug 9, 2021
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Former chief of the UNMC Division of Surgical Oncology was “consummate clinician and educator.”
Aug 9, 2021
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Chancellor’s forum set for Aug. 16
Jane Meza, PhD, interim executive director for health security, and Mark Rupp, MD, chief of the UNMC Division of Infectious Diseases, will join Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD.
Aug 6, 2021
![UNMC Chancellor Jeffrey P. Gold, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/GoldAOneicon.jpg)
Buffett Early Childhood Institute leader Meisels to retire in 2022
Samuel Meisels, EdD, was founding executive director of NU institute.
Aug 6, 2021
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UNMC, iEXCEL offer new look at Delta variant
James Lawler, MD, unveiled new video animation explaining how Delta variant attacks healthy cells and why COVID vaccines are the best defense.
Aug 6, 2021
![James Lawler, MD, uses video animation developed at UNMC's Interprofessional Experiential Center for Enduring Learning to show how the COVID-19 Delta variant attacks cells and affects patients' lungs.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lungs080621.jpg)
Midwest Radiation Oncology Symposium now virtual
Registration remains open for Aug. 20-21 event.
Aug 6, 2021
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Mentors needed, internal medicine residency awards, and other news and notes from the UNMC community.
Aug 6, 2021
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Nursing’s Lesiak is awarded Gold U
Lesiak is the administrative coordinator in the Niedfelt Nursing Research Center.
Aug 5, 2021
![Lauren Lesiak](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Lesiak073021.jpg)