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AI is focus of Breakthrough Thinking session Dec. 5
Maria Langworthy, PhD, co-founder of CampusEvolve, will discuss the potential and peril of generative AI in education.
Nov 29, 2023
![Maria Langworthy, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/MariaLangworthy112923.jpg)
Emerging professionals wrapping up year with two events
A membership forum today will include a presentation on financial wellness and managing stress during the holidays.
Nov 29, 2023
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Retired nursing professor writes book on Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
Nancy Waltman, PhD, wrote “Healer: Susan La Flesche Picotte” on the first Native American doctor in the U.S.
Nov 29, 2023
![Susan La Flesche Picotte, MD,](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Picotte111720-e1700588924853.jpg)
Give With Your Heart on Giving Tuesday
On this Giving Tuesday, the NU Foundation is offering the Give With Your Heart drive to support UNMC and Nebraska Medicine.
Nov 28, 2023
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Farnam Street to reopen this week
The newly improved street will help improve traffic flow through UNMC’s Saddle Creek District.
Nov 28, 2023
![UNMC/Nebraska Medicine signage overlooking the intersection of Farnam Street and Saddle Creek Road on the west side of campus.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Campus_Farnam112823-900x600.jpg)
NSRI receives $5 million for defense threat reduction work
UNMC’s Eric Carnes, PhD, is among those joining the work through NU’s National Strategic Research Institute.
Nov 28, 2023
![The new funding for the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska allows additional NU researchers to join the team developing projects to counter weapons of mass destruction, including NSRI Fellow Eric Carnes, PhD, an associate professor in the UNMC Department of Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/EricCarnes041723-900x600.jpg)
New faculty spotlight: Brittney Dickey, PhD
Dr. Dickey is an assistant professor in the UNMC Department of Epidemiology.
Nov 28, 2023
![Brittney Dickey, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/BrittneyDickey112223-900x600.jpg)
UNMC, Creighton to co-host interprofessional education conference
The Collaborating Across Borders Conference, set for 2025 in Omaha, is North America’s oldest and largest interprofessional education conference.
Nov 27, 2023
![Devin Nickol, MD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DevinNickol111623-900x600.jpg)
Nebraska landmarks go purple for pancreatic cancer awareness
Nebraskans saw some of the state’s most visible landmarks turn purple this month.
Nov 27, 2023
![The Dr. Edwin G. & Dorothy Balbach Davis Global Center marks Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/rj2VpUn1_2OuNa.jpeg)
Speaker to address Native American health care’s history
Mayo Clinic physician Jonathan Baines, MD, PhD, will give a hybrid presentation on Wednesday, Nov. 29.
Nov 27, 2023
![Jonathan Baines, MD, PhD](https://www.unmc.edu/newsroom/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/JonathanBaines112723.jpg)