Show your #MavSpirit - become an RA!
Do you know a student who is energetic, engaging, empathetic, and is an enthusiastic Maverick? Encourage them to consider applying to serve as a Resident Assistant (RA)!
What Makes a Great RA?
Housing and Residence Life is looking for RAs for the 2021-2022 academic year. We are developing a pool of strong and diverse applicants and we need your help to identify talented student leaders. RA staff members are energetic students with a passion for helping others, developing community, connecting with fellow students, representing UNO, and sharing their #MavSpirit. The primary responsibility of an RA is to connect with, educate, and support students living on campus.
The enhanced COVID testing program is being made available to provide for your personal health and to allow you to stay focused on your work or education. If you believe you or your family members have been exposed to individuals with COVID-19, or need to be tested for safety, travel or peace of mind and are not displaying any symptoms of COVID-19, the following off-campus option is available. This service is provided in addition to COVID specimen collection sites that may be provided on campus.
General Information
What: COVID-19 testing offered for students, faculty, staff, and their families
Where: Universal Swab Center, 5710 S. 144th St., Omaha, NE 68137 (inside the former Super Saver grocery store)
The client met her consultants the way practically everyone has had to do in 2020. On a computer screen.
One by one, faces popped up on Microsoft Teams screens on a Tuesday morning in December, and the client, Salina Greene, gushed: “I’m seeing my consultants for the first time. This is exciting!”
Greene opened a meeting that had a two-fold purpose.
First was hearing what these “consultants,” a trio of University of Nebraska at Omaha MBA students, had to say about hate and extremist group presence in Omaha and the entities that exist to counter that presence and prevent violence. Greene was still new to town, having uprooted from Washington, D.C., to take a new job as regional prevention coordinator for Homeland Security’s Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (OTVTP).
Homegrown medtech company Centese develops game-changing device for surgery patients
A new Omaha-based medtech company has developed a self-cleaning chest tube system that provides more precise measurements for monitoring patients recovering from surgery on their heart or lungs. Startup Centese developed the device, called Thoraguard. Through a novel self-irrigating mechanism, Thoraguard eliminates one of the main hazards of analog chest tubes: the need for medical…
Photo courtesy Centese
A new Omaha-based medtech company has developed a self-cleaning chest tube system that provides more precise measurements for monitoring patients recovering from surgery on their heart or lungs.
Startup Centese developed the device, called Thoraguard. Through a novel self-irrigating mechanism, Thoraguard eliminates one of the main hazards of analog chest tubes: the need for medical personnel to keep a constant eye out for blockages and other irregularities. The system cleans itself, and