A Day in the Life at UNMC

My bone marrow donation story

Tom Blount, a fourth-year medical student, recently got to meet his bone marrow donation recipient a year and a half after the donation. Tom is a member of Decreasing the Donor Deficit (DDD), a service learning legacy project at UNMC, which partners with the “Be the Match” National Bone Marrow Donor registry. DDD will have […]

Feb 10, 2016

Stress-free stress relief

By Laura Zima “Are you still watching?” Netflix asked me at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 26. That morning, I had taken my first test this semester, and it was one of those rare afternoons in the life of a medical student where I had nothing to do. Yet when that simple question popped up […]

Feb 8, 2016

From refugee to M.D.: Dr. Nguyen and his family come to America

Dr. Quan Dong Nguyen’s first step toward becoming an American began when his father went in to report to the new communist government and disappeared for the next 42 months. During the early 1970s, despite the Vietnam War, Dr. Nguyen’s family lived a relatively normal life in South Vietnam. But after the fall of Saigon […]

Dec 14, 2015

Finding Ph.D. possibilities off the academic track

Looking for a job while you have an advanced degree sounds a lot like looking for a job without an advanced degree. “I beat my head against the wall until something gave,” said Austin Jelcick, Ph.D. And, as Dr. Jelcick said, “When you have your Ph.D., there can often be this odd chasm you have […]

Nov 16, 2015