Katie Weitz believes the College of Public Health can make the world a better place. But it’s hard to explain what it is: “I think everybody would care about public health if they knew what it was.”
Sharon Redding has traveled to more countries than she can count in her nursing career. Her experiences led her to create a planned gift allowing future nurses to travel internationally.
Simulators provide a controlled environment for learning to fly an aircraft or drive a car. In health care, visualization and simulation technology is teaching students to treat patients safely.
By Kalani Simpson, UNMC Strategic Communications UNMC, the College of Pharmacy and the University of Nebraska Foundation recently hosted a thank-you celebration honoring one of pharmacy’s
“If I could ever say anything, face to face, with the people who gave me the money to chase my dreams … it would be a very long handshake and possibly a hug,” says Parker Loghry, a Thompson Scholar at UNK. “I would just look them in the eye and say, ‘You have no idea.’”
Poverty. Science. Education. The arts. That’s where Dick Holland has put almost all of his money. “I feel there’s no point in leaving life without having done things for your fellow man.”
You deserve love. You matter. Those are messages Pamela Buffett wants to send to everyone out in the world who’s trying to overcome so much in their lives, like cancer.
For some children, dental care is too expensive for their families.
That’s why 13 years ago the UNMC College of Dentistry and its students began providing clinics that offer complimentary dental services just for kids—all on a fun filled day.
Learn how Children’s Dental Day is helping.
“Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart, because you’re going to make me a better doctor.”
Her dream was always the same.
“When I was a little girl, I remember being asked the infamous question: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’” Myrranda Essex says. “And unlike some children, I always gave the same answer: ‘I want to be a nurse.’”
Prince Amukamara and Jordan Larson have at least three things in common.
David Aresty, a bone marrow transplant and liver transplant patient who was also a prominent supporter of UNMC, died Oct. 23 at age 56.
An Arizona cowboy was just a few years into his career as a pro steer wrestler when he got attacked by some killers. The attacks were odd. This cowboy was 26 at the time and these particular killers – the killer cells of autoimmune Type 1 diabetes – usually go after kids.
Annette Markin’s passion was children. Her children. Other people’s children. Sick children. “Every other child she could find to help and hold,” says Dr. Rod Markin, her husband.
Fifteen years ago, Lindsay was diagnosed with glaucoma. He’s been a patient at UNMC since then. A grateful patient.
A new cancer center at the University of Nebraska will be named the Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, thanks to a gift from Pamela Buffett.
When you make a gift to the University of Nebraska Foundation you can trust that it will be used in the way in which it was intended. That’s a promise we’ve kept with our donors since our organization was founded in 1936.
The University of Nebraska Foundation (EIN: 47-0379839) is exempt from federal income tax under the provisions of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
