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The Prairie Portraits series features founders, funders and community builders from Nebraska's innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. 👋 Meet Mindy Ware, Advanced Certified Paralegal @ UNeMed ⚖️🥼🩺💡

Learn more about Mindy — 🔗 https://buff.ly/lqZ2akZ

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Great look at university tech transfer & how innovations created at Nebraska get from invention to impact
University of Nebraska System University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC University of Nebraska at Omaha University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Behind the scenes, tech transfer orgs help Nebraska university innovation turn into startups - Silicon Prairie News Nebraska’s entrepreneurship ecosystem is benefiting from startups that grow out of highly technical research at universities. Enabling that transition are tech transfer organizations that build relationships and infrastructure for complex work.

The self-pacing treadmill, from the world-class University of Nebraska at Omaha- Department of Biomechanics, is an incredible innovation. Impower is now one step closer to bringing it to a gym near you! University of Nebraska at Omaha

Impower lands new CEO, signs Boomerang to lead pre-seed round - UNeMed Impower Health, Inc., a startup built on a UNO innovation, recently secured pre-seed investment from Boomerang Ventures and added a new CEO.

Don't underestimate the power of collaboration! Innovation Ambassador, Joseph Sui:
"Everyone is creative and innovative...By sharing our innovative ideas with others, we may be able to change a good idea to a great idea."

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Check out this offering from our friends at Creighton University School of Law Innovation & Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic launches next week so there might still be time to sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ielc-launch-tickets-1982719033001

The first of six NIH SBIR/STTR Grant Writing Club meetings went well! It's open to any University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC or University of Nebraska at Omaha faculty staff or students looking for grant-writing help. Join us next week! Catalyst Omaha https://www.unemed.com/event/nih-sbir-sttr-grant-writing-club/2026-02-25

Really wish there was a louder way to shout this one, because it's super tough to imagine how this place would function without her. Congrats, Mindy!

Ware wins national tech transfer award - UNeMed UNeMed's Mindy Ware selected among a national pool of nominees for the Excellence in Office Operations Award by TechPipeline

No such thing as imposter syndrome in innovation. If you have an idea, get it out there! For those at University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC & University of Nebraska at Omaha look at what Beth Beam is doing with hers:

Napkin contest helps small ideas become big solutions - UNeMed Dr. Beam had the spark of an idea but was uncertain if it was worth catching fire. Too many inventors feel this way. Enter the napkin contest!

It's back! Our Back-o-the-Napkin contest returns, so get ready to submit your better ways and new ideas for making the world a better place!

Napkin contest returns, entries due in March - UNeMed UNeMed's “Back-o-the-Napkin” contest returns, calling for inventive UNMC and UNO faculty, staff & students to submit new inventions

Looking back, it was a pretty great year around here! Take a look at some of our highlights from 2025:

Year in Review: 2025 - UNeMed It's time again when we look back at 2025 to reflect on some of the more popular and important stories, events and developments.

Cool story about a University of Nebraska startup, Virtual Incision, reimagining surgical robotics. Started as a collaborative project between University of Nebraska Medical Center - UNMC & University of Nebraska-Lincoln h/t NUtech Ventures

Building a better robot: How Virtual Incision plans to challenge Intuitive Led by former Intuitive executive Jim Alecxih, Virtual Incision expects the miniaturized design of its robot to stand out in an increasingly crowded field of challengers.