UNMC Building National Reputation As Biosecurity Leader

The University of Nebraska Medical Center's biosecurity teams - working with the National Strategic Research Institute at the University of Nebraska , Nebraska Medicine and Indiana University, Bloomington - have been busy this year conducting military research and training exercises for the Department of Defense and also providing training for civilian responders from across the nation. Assistant vice chancellor for interprofessional health security training and education John Lowe is heading a team of 11 investigators from Nebraska, Indiana and NSRI evaluating the equipment and procedures used to airlift patients in bio-isolation.

Shirley Louise Wentworth Shipley

Shirley Louise Wentworth Shipley, 56, of Bloomington passed away peacefully Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2016, at IU Bloomington Hospital Hospice House with her loving family at her side. Born March 31, 1960, in Seymour, she was the daughter of William Breckenridge Wentworth, who preceded her in death, and Phyllis Wentworth McNeal-Handley, who survives.