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Since 1942, UNMC Graduate Studies has focused on training graduate students through exceptional health science educational and research programs, faculty mentoring, and professional skills development. Masters, doctoral, and certificate programs are administered by individual colleges but housed under UNMC Graduate Studies. The energy of our graduate students propels discoveries that change and save lives, whether through helping faculty design clinical trials for new vaccines, discovering new ways to repurpose existing medications, or by developing new diagnostic tools and therapies for cancer treatments. 

Graduate students are key contributors to the research that is done at UNMC every day. 

To commemorate the past 80 years of growth and achievement, the Office of Graduate Studies and the McGoogan Health Sciences Library partnered to produce an exhibition within the Wigton Heritage Center. The exhibition is now open and located near the Bennett/Sorrell/Wittson Hall skywalks on Level 4 of Wittson Hall. Accompanying the physical installations is an online exhibition accessible to a global audience at https://wigton.unmc.edu/GradStudies  

Legacy RefWorks will cease to exist in June 2023.  

How can you tell which version of RefWorks you’re using? If you see an orange circle in a blue banner above your reference list, you are using Legacy RefWorks.

If you are using Legacy RefWorks and are currently affiliated with UNMC or Children’s Hospital: 

• We encourage you to move your Legacy RefWorks account to New RefWorks soon, and to use your New RefWorks account for any new writing projects.
  • The instructions for moving to New RefWorks are here.  
  • The library has produced a guide to using New RefWorks and librarians are happy to provide one-on-one, New RefWorks training. 
  • New RefWorks: Getting Started classes will be offered on Oct 12 at 10 AM and Oct 26 at 12 (noon).  A recording of the class should be available by Oct 30).
• If you had been considering changing citation managers, this would be a good time to make that change.  
  • UNMC licenses EndNote, and Zotero is available without charge. 
  • The following upcoming classes may be of interest (recordings should be available by Oct 30):
    • Choosing a Citation Manager Oct 10 at 11 AM and Oct 24 at 11 AM
    • EndNote: Getting Started Oct 11 at 12 (noon) and Oct 25 at 12 (noon)
    • Zotero:  Getting Started  Oct 13 at 12 (noon) and Oct 27 at 1 PM
  •  The Library has produced EndNote and Zotero guides.

Questions? Contact askus@unmc.edu

As part of Research Month, the McGoogan Health Sciences Library will be presenting a series of educational sessions on citation managers, including RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero. Registration is not required. 

Choosing a Citation Manager  

Dates: October 10, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. and October 24, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. 

Learn more about RefWorks, EndNote, and Zotero so that you can choose the one that meets both your project needs and your long-term information management needs. We will introduce each system, discuss benefits and drawbacks of each, and suggest when you might prefer to use one or the other.  

RefWorks: Getting Started

Dates: October 12, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. and October 26, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. 

Learn how to use RefWorks to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the Write-n-Cite feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.   

EndNote: Getting Started

Dates: October 11, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. and October 25, 12 p.m.-1 p.m.  

Learn how to use EndNote to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the Cite While You Write feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.   

Zotero: Getting Started

Dates: October 13, 12 p.m.-1 p.m. and October 27, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. 

Learn how to use Zotero to manage your citations. We will demonstrate the basics of importing and managing citations, using the citing feature to create in-text citations and bibliographies, and customizing your folders and record view.   

A sensory room will be open for exploration in the McGoogan Health Sciences Library October 3-7. Developed in response to a Student Senate proposal, the sensory room is a place for library users to explore all five senses. The goals of the sensory room are to:  

• Create a welcoming and immersive environment for students to experience sensory learning 
• Promote a space where students can decompress before, after, or between study sessions 
• Identify different learning needs of the student body 

• Provide a comforting space for de-escalation and self-regulation 
• Introduce a failure-free environment where the mind can explore activities and relax 
• Encourage UNMC to continue to promote a culture where learners of all abilities are celebrated 

Located in WH classroom 6032, the room is open to students and the campus community.  

Engage the senses through art supplies, floor pillows, a variety of soothing lights, online visual experiences, kinetic sand, scratch-and-sniff stickers, and various snacks. Sensory room users are encouraged to adjust lights and white noise machines to their comfort levels. 

This sensory room pop-up will return to McGoogan Library November 14-18. 

The McGoogan Health Sciences Library is hosting an author talk on October 7, 12 p.m. – 1 p.m., with Loren A. Olson, MD, in support of his book No More Neckties: A Memoir in Essays. The presentation will be held on Zoom and requires registration.  

Dr. Olson will discuss life in Nebraska in the 1950-60s and how that delayed his coming to terms with his sexuality. He will discuss how family, religion, and culture continue to create a predicament for those who question their sexuality. 

Dr. Olson is the award-winning author of Finally Out: Letting Go of Living Straight and a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. A physician for over 50 years, he served as a flight surgeon in the US Navy and continues to practice psychiatry. A well-regarded essayist and popular speaker on mental health and LGBTQ issues, he has been interviewed on regional and national television, national and international radio, and in multiple print and online publications. Dr. Olson is the father of two daughters and a proud grandfather. A native of Wakefield, Nebraska, and a graduate of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, he lives in Des Moines, Iowa, with Doug Mortimer, his husband and life partner of 35 years. 

Copies of Dr. Olson’s book will be available via a drawing. Entries can be made online.