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PT students among those named NASA Nebraska Fellows

In case you missed it in UNMC Today, we have some “rocket scientists” in our midst! Second-year UNMC Physical Therapy students, Melissa Parks and Trent Werner, have each been named NASA Fellowship recipients. Read full article>>

Sep 21, 2016

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Welcome new faculty: Megan Frazee

Megan Frazee, PT, DPT, OCS, MTC, FAAOMPT, is the newest faculty member in the division of physical therapy education. She was raised on a dairy farm on the Kansas-Nebraska border in Southern Pawnee county. She is a 2009 graduate of UNMC’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program and recently completed a fellowship in Orthopedic Manual Physical […]

Aug 8, 2016

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PT2 receives NASA fellowship

Trent Werner, a second-year UNMC physical therapy student and the 2018 PT class president, has been named a NASA Fellowship recipient. He is conducting research under the supervision of Chun-Kai Huang, PhD, investigating the effects of visual-spatial discordance on fine motor control in order to hopefully develop a visuomotor training paradigm for NASA astronauts. Trent […]

Jul 18, 2016

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