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Category: RSTE

Top ten reasons to go to the UNMC Ice Rink

It’s open and right here on campus! It’s free for students AND employees AND family this year! (For all others, the fee is $7, which includes skates.) It’s fun! It’s good exercise so it’s good for you and you’ll be warm even though it’s cold. (They have heaters, too, if you need a little help.) You […]

Dec 2, 2013

Another Successful “Coats and Caps for Kids” Drive

On November 21, 2013, the Radiation Science Technology Education (RSTE) students, with support from the RSTE Alumni, delivered coats, hats, and gloves to the Miller Park Elementary School. Each year, the students collect new and gently used winter coats, caps, gloves, and monetary donations for the purchase of stocking caps and gloves for the children. […]

Nov 26, 2013

CAST Open House this Friday

One of Dr. Joseph Siu’s research collaboration centers, Center for Advanced Surgical Technology (CAST), will have an Open House this Friday, November 22, 2013, from 1:00 PM-3:00 PM in Wittson Hall 3030. His research team will be showcasing several simulators for surgical skill acquisitions. Their technology and inventions might trigger some potential collaborations in the […]

Nov 20, 2013

Of note…

A couple of articles of note from UNMC Today, in case you missed them, and a bit of horn-tooting (self-promotion, which I can’t help because I run the blog): Student Spotlight – Meet Nick Baker (Cytotechnology student) Two School of Allied Health Professions faculty have recently been named president-elect… Fran Higgins has two poems in […]

Nov 1, 2013

Spirit Week a Success!

Okay, maybe that’s a subjective title. If you measure success in smiles, however, it’s spot on. Just look through the pictures UNMC posted to Flickr! Everybody was having a good time. Even the folks with whipped cream dripping off their faces were smiling. The money donated for a chance to “pie” someone did go to […]

Nov 1, 2013

Congratulations to Lisa Bartenhagen!

Submitted by Tanya Custer Lisa Bartenhagen, MS, RT(R)(T), program director in our Radiation Therapy program, recently collaborated with the American Society of Radiologic Technologist to create a teaching module on Image Guided Radiation Therapy. Lisa’s directed reading within the module was titled Image Guided Radiation Therapy: Overview. The module will help radiation therapy educators teach […]

Oct 31, 2013

Imaging is Important

Lisa Bartenhagen knows medical imaging is important not just because she is a registered radiographer and radiation therapist, but because this image is of her son, Broc’s, head after grid placement. These grids were surgically implanted to map Broc’s brain activity prior to a frontal lobectomy.    Not only did radiographers play a major role […]

Oct 29, 2013

Congratulations to Marcia Hess Smith, President-Elect

Marcia Hess Smith, BS, CNMT, program director of our Nuclear Medicine Technology Education program, won the position of President-Elect for the Board of Directors of the Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certification Board, their profession’s national certification body. Congratulations, Marcia!

Oct 28, 2013

SAHP Pumpkin Decorating Contest Winners

Congratulations to our winners of the 2nd annual SAHP Pumpkin Carving/Painting/Decorating Contest: Pat O’Neil – First place       Kim Michael – Second place

Oct 23, 2013

Stop #4 on the whirlwind tour…Kearney!

RSTE faculty enjoyed reminiscing with 1979 UNMC radiography program graduate, Kathy (Vinzenz) Wroblewski at the Kearney Clinic. Tour provided by Tyler Kann, Vascular Sonographer, and Julie Riese, Radiography Supervisor.  

Oct 15, 2013