Author: Fran Higgins
Former Faculty Retires
Mary Jo Mays, former SAHP PT faculty retired and this video tribute shows, according to one source, that she “hasn’t changed a bit!” http://www.bradley.edu/academics/ehs/dpt/maystribute.htm
Aug 25, 2010
Green Tips
Saving energy and money just makes good sense. Here are a couple of tips we can use here in the school to help out: 1) Turn off lights in the conference rooms, breakrooms, and offices when you leave. 2) Unplug appliances that are not in use (i.e., pencil sharpeners, hole punchers, coffee pots, toasters). They […]
Aug 24, 2010
Social Hour and Award Presentation
Last Tuesday morning, faculty and staff in the SAHP met in the Bennett Hall Reading Room to socialize over bagels and coffee, courtesy of our rewards and recognition committee. The gathering provided a great opportunity for the committee to present Sue Prusia with a framed Silver U poster, the first of its kind for the school. Prusia, […]
Aug 23, 2010
Publications from the SAHP
Faculty in the UNMC School of Allied Health Professions have recently published the following articles: Kim Michael, April Eikmeier, and Virginia Mueller, “Infantile Hemangiopericytoma,” Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, July/August 2010; vol. 26, 4: pp. 198-201., first published on June 25, 2010. Amanda Ann Reed and Kim Michael, “Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis,” Journal of Diagnostic Medical […]
Aug 19, 2010
Talent Tuesdays Starts Oct 5, 2010
We’re calling it Talent Tuesdays: an hour of entertainment provided by UNMC employees and students for other UNMC employees and students. I’d thought about playing a lunch-time gig in our Bennett Hall auditorium since we moved in after the renovation, and when I mentioned it to Chuck Brown, a fellow musician in public relations, he […]
Aug 18, 2010
Today's Research Seminar Postponed
Today’s research seminar scheduled at noon in BTH 2020 is being postponed. We will send rescheduling information at a later date.
Aug 18, 2010
Faculty members — get your picture taken on Sept. 15
A photographer will be available on Wednesday, Sept. 15 between 10 a.m. and noon to shoot free professional head shots for faculty members. The photo shoots — which should last just a few minutes each — will take place in the atrium outside of the Truhlsen Campus Events Center in the Sorrell Center. If you […]
Aug 16, 2010
Physical Therapy Student Wins Competition
As reported in the UNMC Today, Chuck Kasson, a UNMC Physical Therapy student, won the heavyweight division of the North American Highlander Competition last weekend. The competition was a strength contest similar to the World’s Strongest Man, in which Kasson and other competitors flipped tires, lifted logs and moved other objects that weighed hundreds of […]
Aug 6, 2010
Generation of curiosity isn't the problem…
“The problem is the generation of a curiosity that always asks a question that in turn spurs one on to a physical act in pursuit of an answer.” This quote comes from Back in Keith County, by John Janovy, Jr., Varner Professor of Biological Sciences at UNL. I’m reading the book for my English Master’s comps and […]
Jul 19, 2010
Thanks for all the support…
Thank you to all my supporters who donated and who came out to see me get my head shaved. In just a couple of days, we’ve raised over $400 for children’s cancer research. Not too shabby. You can watch the channel 6 news or check The Nebraska Medical Center website for video highlights. I’ll put pictures and links […]
Jul 16, 2010
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