For the 14th straight year, student enrollment at the University of Nebraska Medical Center set a record high with 3,681 students enrolled for the 2013-14 school year, an increase over last year’s record of 3,655.

“We are pleased that our overall enrollment continues to grow,” said Dele Davies, M.D., vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean of graduate studies. “Our public health programs in particular continue to attract excellent new students from across Nebraska, the U.S. and around the world. Several of our allied health programs and our doctor of nursing practice programs also experienced modest growths.”

Listed below are enrollment highlights from UNMC.

Graduate Studies

Enrollment in doctoral and master’s programs in graduate studies increased by 1.8 percent, going from 462 students in 2012 to 474 in 2013. The number of students enrolled in doctoral programs increased 3 percent, going from 389 to 401.

College of Dentistry

The College of Dentistry admitted 47 new dental students as well as 24 new dental hygiene students, bringing enrollment in the college to 278, including 41 graduate and post graduate students. This year’s GPA for entering dentistry students is 3.76 and the entering dental hygiene class had a 3.55 GPA. There were 796 applicants for the 47 slots in this year’s dental class.

College of Medicine

There are 133 new medical students entering their first year of medical school, bringing the total enrollment to 510, with 34 enrolled in the M.D./Ph.D. program. The new students were selected from a total of 1,568 applicants, one of the largest number of applicants in the last 19 years.

College of Nursing

A total of 993 students are enrolled in seven undergraduate and graduate nursing programs (including Ph.D. in nursing students) in Omaha, Lincoln, Kearney, Scottsbluff and Norfolk. The college received 642 qualified applicants this year for 391 slots in its bachelor’s degree in nursing programs. The incoming bachelor’s students’ GPA is 3.64 based on the students’ first two years in undergraduate college. The college also received 221 applications for the master’s degree in nursing and post master’s certificate programs for 100 slots.

College of Pharmacy

Fifty-eight new students with a GPA of 3.55 were accepted into the College of Pharmacy’s Doctor of Pharmacy degree program. The new students bring the total enrollment in the four-year program to 221 students.

College of Public Health

Enrollment in the College of Public Health this fall is 223, which includes 50 doctoral students, 138 master’s students, and 35 certificate and non-degree program students. This represents a 14 percent increase in enrollment over last fall.  The College of Public Health had 240 qualified applicants for its programs in fall 2013, a 95 percent increase over the fall of 2012.

School of Allied Health Professions

For the 2013-14 academic year, there are 231 new students. Total enrollment in the school’s traditional programs is 410 students, and 209 students are enrolled through distance education degree programs. There were 926 applicants this year — a 3.3 percent increase over last year.

In addition to student enrollment, Munroe-Meyer Institute provided interdisciplinary training, course work, and practicum experiences to 177 students in the 2012-2013 academic year. Trainees included 11undergraduate students, 52 master’s level students, 75 doctoral level interns, 38 post-doctoral fellows, and training for a family member to develop disability advocacy and community resource expertise.

Enrollment at UNMC since 2000

Year    Enrollment

2000        2,695

2001        2,724

2002        2,819

2003        2,865

2004        2,904

2005        3,002

2006        3,067

2007        3,128

2008        3,194

2009        3,237

2010        3,493

2011        3,626

2012        3,655

2013        3,681

(AP) — The other jury is in: A second periodical used for everything from predicting the weather to helping people lose weight agrees that this winter is shaping up to be cold and snowy.

The Dublin, N.H.-based Old Farmer’s Almanac, at 222, is believed to be the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It says a drop in solar activity and a change in ocean patterns are pointing to colder-than-average temperatures and higher-than-average snowfall totals.

Last month, the Maine-based Farmer’s Almanac, said much the same. The younger cousin has been publishing for a mere 197 years.

The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts a cold winter for every region but the lower Great Lakes, upper Midwest and the northern states of the Northeast.

The 2013 edition officially comes out Tuesday.

(AP) — A former guard at a Nebraska prison center for work release in Lincoln has been given probation for having a sexual relationship with a woman who became his girlfriend after she was parole.

Online court records say 28-year-old Anoroy Loyuk was given 18 months of probation at his sentencing on Monday. State law bars corrections employees from having sex with inmates or parolees, even if both parties agree.

Loyuk and the woman met while Loyuk was working at the Community Corrections Center in Lincoln. Loyuk’s lawyer says the relationship didn’t begin until more than a month after the woman was paroled and under the supervision of a parole officer. Loyuk and the woman saw each other at a grocery store and exchanged greetings. Then they exchanged addresses.

(AP) — A village board in southeast Nebraska is considering an ordinance that would restrict where convicted sex offenders may live and would fine landlords who rent to them.

A man convicted of sexually assaulting a child lives in Alexandria, just across an alley from the home of Jeremy and Kristine VanWesten and their two children. Kristine VanWesten went to the Village Board in July and asked for restrictions on sex offenders. Her husband sits on the board.

The ordinance would bar sex offenders from living within 500 feet of schools and parks and school bus stops on village property. A bus stop sits about two blocks away from the sex offender.

The ACLU of Nebraska has told the Village Board the proposed ordinance is unconstitutional.

(AP) — A federal judge has ruled there’s enough probable cause to move forward with the case of an Omaha woman accused of supplying ammunition to a man suspected of going on a three-week killing spree.

U.S. Magistrate Thomas Thalken on Monday ordered 39-year-old Christine Bordeaux to be held until more proceedings in her case are scheduled.

Bordeaux is accused of illegally buying two boxes of Brenneke Classic Magnum 12-gauge ammunition in early August. Authorities have linked the ammunition to several killings in the Omaha area. Nikko Jenkins is currently being held without bond on four counts of first-degree murder in the slayings.

Bordeaux faces a federal charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition. Court records do not indicate an attorney.

(AP) — Police have taken into custody the father of a severely disabled 3-year-old girl whose starvation death is being investigated as a homicide.

Homicide Capt. James Clark says Nathalyz Rivera weighed just 11 pounds when she died Monday.

Police say 30-year-old Carlos Rivera has been located in Philadelphia after fleeing earlier in the day.

Police say he found his daughter unresponsive inside their bug-infested home at about midnight, but called her mother instead of 911.

Clark says the girl’s mother was being questioned and he expects her to be charged.

Authorities say the girl was driven to a hospital and pronounced dead at about 2 a.m. A medical examiner termed her death a homicide caused primarily by starvation.

(AP) — It sounds like one of those insurance horror stories President Barack Obama told to sell his health overhaul to Congress: Bev Veals, dealing with advanced cancer, was in the hospital for chemo this summer when she got a call that her health plan was shutting down.

Then, the substitute insurance she was offered wanted her to pay more than $3,000 — on top of premiums.

But Veals is covered by Obama’s law — one of about 100,000 people with serious medical issues in a troubled program called the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan.

Political divisions over health care have blocked a fix, a bad omen for solving other problems that could surface with “Obamacare.”

Veals said she felt she finally had something dependable “and somebody pulled the plug.”

(AP) — A retired school district administrator from eastern Nebraska is running for the Legislature.

Roy Baker of Lincoln announced Monday that he will seek the seat held by state Sen. Norm Wallman, or Cortland. Wallman is ineligible for re-election in 2014 because of term limits.

Baker retired in 2010 as the superintendent of the Norris School District. He also served as the interim superintendent for Beatrice Public Schools during the last school year, to fill in for an administrator who died. Baker now works as a consultant for school boards who are looking to hire superintendents.

The District 30 legislative seat represents parts of southern Lincoln, Beatrice, and Wymore in southeast Nebraska.

(AP) — Omaha philanthropist Suzanne Scott, whose name adorns many prominent projects alongside her husband Walter, has died.

Suzanne Scott led the Omaha Zoological Foundation from 1984 to 1988, and the zoo’s impressive new aquarium is named in honor of the Scotts.

The 83-year-old Suzanne Scott was married to Walter Scott for more than 25 years. The two met while she worked for the zoo and he led the zoo’s board.

Billionaire Walter Scott is the chairman emeritus of Peter Kiewit Sons Inc.

Suzanne Scott also volunteered her time to a number of organizations and served on the boards of Bellevue University, Children’s Hospital and United Way of the Midlands.

Bill Cutler at the Heafey Heafey Hoffman Dworak and Cutler funeral home said Scott died Monday morning. Funeral arrangements are pending.

(AP) — Authorities have released the names of two people who were killed when a car slammed into an Omaha warehouse.

Omaha police identified the driver as 28-year-old Brooke Mace and her passenger as 27-year-old Claudio Perea-Perez. Both were from Omaha.

The accident in south-central Omaha was discovered about 7 a.m. Sunday.

Police say the car was speeding south into the industrial area and didn’t stop at a T-intersection. There were no skid marks near the crash.