A Day in the Life at UNMC
One of the most well-read things we do here, at UNMC Today, is our Lookin’ at U, which features a closer look at your fellow UNMC employees. People love it! But it’s frustrating to come across someone who would be incredibly fascinating and fun for everyone to read about, only to have that person say, […]
Nov 4, 2015
How Dr. Lyubchenko’s lab invited the dean to a pizza party
Yuri Lyubchenko, Ph.D., professor of pharmaceutical sciences in the College of Pharmacy, said this quietly, almost with wonder: “It has been a really good year.” It has. Already this year his lab has been awarded a $620,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and another from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for more […]
Oct 26, 2015
Standardized patients make mission SimPossible
They’re still counting votes to see whether the team from the family medicine interest group or the team from the emergency medicine interest group came out on top in the Innovation & Research Week simulation contest, Mission SimPossible. You can view the videos of each team’s performance, and vote yourself, here. They’ll be tallying votes […]
Oct 21, 2015
The first days of medical school: A doctor looks back
By Brad Britigan, M.D. Dr. Britigan is the dean of the UNMC College of Medicine and the president of Nebraska Medicine. With the beginning of the new school year, the energy on campus has no doubt risen a few levels. The adrenaline is especially flowing for the nearly 130 first-year medical students, most of whom […]
Sep 3, 2015