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Inside UNMC

Send kids back to school with new supplies

An organization-wide drive for school supplies will be held through Aug. 8 and benefit more than 10 area nonprofits.

Jul 26, 2022

Rebekah Gundry, PhD, named interim department chair

Dr. Gundry will lead the UNMC Department of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, while Matthew Zimmerman, PhD, will be interim vice chair of the department.

Jul 26, 2022

Rebekah Gundry, PhD

Patio party will feature Taco Wednesday

Event will be at Nebraska Café on Wednesday, July 27.

Jul 25, 2022

Volunteers needed for all-campus barbecue

The 2022 #WeAreUNMC BBQ will be held Aug. 24 at the Ruth and Bill Scott Student Plaza.

Jul 25, 2022

NIH branch highlights Mohs lab innovation

The National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering featured a UNMC innovation to engineer an inexpensive, paper-based test to rapidly identify bacteria.

Jul 25, 2022

Aaron Mohs, PhD

Abraham Mengist, PhD, brings malaria work to Ethiopia

Dr. Mengist, of the UNMC College of Public Health, is collaborating with researchers from Addis Ababa University.

Jul 22, 2022

Abraham Mengist (back right), PhD, an assistant professor of epidemiology in the UNMC College of Public Health, works with his research team in Ethiopia.

LGBTQ+ Employee Alliance welcomes new leadership

Kari Zelenka of Nebraska Medicine is the new president of the med center’s LGBTQ+ Employee Alliance, and Meg Ryan of UNMC is vice president.

Jul 22, 2022

Kari Zelenka (left) is the new president of the med center's LGBTQ+ Employee Alliance, and Meg Ryan is vice president.

New innovation networking event draws a good mix

The event, sponsored by UNeMed, UNeTech and the Great Plains IDeA-CTR, attracted university innovators and local entrepreneurs.

Jul 21, 2022

Jason Johanning, MD, chatted with Michael Dixon, PhD, president and CEO of UNeMed, at the first Innovations and Libations networking event. Johanning is a professor in the UNMC Department of Surgery, a vascular surgeon with Nebraska Medicine and an inventor-entrepreneur who works with UNeMed.

Computer models show value in diagnosing dementia

UNMC researchers joined in publishing a study in Nature Communications looking at using deep learning computer models to identify Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.

Jul 21, 2022

Daniel Murman, MD, Arun Swaminathan, MD, and Olga Taraschenko, MD, PhD

J.P. Lord: A look at the person behind the name

John Prentiss Lord, MD, had a distinguished career serving the orthopedic patients of Nebraska.

Jul 21, 2022

John Prentiss Lord, MD