Outreach

Fostering the Future seeks student volunteers

The organization’s mission is to help children and young adults in the foster care system.

May 4, 2020

The annual Fall Blanket Drive, where students to help make blankets for organizations including Omaha Police Department, the Ronald McDonald House, the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, Project Harmony and the Siena/Francis House, is one of the organization's main events.

Dr. Shillcutt speaks on physician wellbeing during pandemic in global webinar

The webinar had more than 1,400 surgeon and anesthesiologist attendees from 102 countries.

May 4, 2020

Dr. Davies named to AAP team on COVID-19 procedures

The initiative is called “AAP COVID-19 ECHO: Emergency Readiness & Response.”

May 1, 2020

Dele Davies, M.D.

Six locations across Nebraska now decontaminating PPE

Method developed at UNMC combats a shortage of one-use N95 respirators.

May 1, 2020

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine developed a safe and effective method to use ultraviolet light to decontaminate N95 respirators.

Giving Tuesday Now comes at important time for UNMC

Annual “day of giving” now is set for May 5.

Apr 30, 2020

The Durham Research Center

Trial shows remdesivir accelerates recovery from advanced COVID-19

UNMC/Nebraska Medicine was first study site for NIH clinical trial.

Apr 30, 2020

Andre Kalil, M.D.

Experts develop guidelines for meat processing facilities regarding COVID-19

Infectious disease and public health experts at the University of Nebraska Medical Center Global Center for Health Security and College of Public Health have developed a set of guidelines for meat processing facilities that include strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 while the facilities continue to operate.   The guide is intended to provide […]

Apr 30, 2020

Jocelyn Herstein, Ph.D. and Shelly Schwedhelm

LiveGreen: Better together, better health

Earth Day, a pandemic and your health.

Apr 28, 2020

UNMC’s Rohan Khazanchi joins AMA medical education council

Khazanchi is a third-year student in the UNMC College of Medicine.

Apr 28, 2020

Rohan Khazanchi

Chancellor, extension dean to discuss COVID-19 on RFD-TV

Chuck Hibberd, dean of the Cooperative Extension Division of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will be the guest of Dr. Gold.

Apr 27, 2020