News & Events
Keep up on news about UNMC's community of international students and study abroad students.
Our Signature Events
International Student Welcome Lunch & Ambassador Appreciation
This September event for international students provides a time for meeting and learning about each other and UNMC.
Celebrate Culture!
An event called Celebrate Culture! is held in in conjunction with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in May. Interactive tables, representative of these countries, featured calligraphy, ddakji (a traditional game played using folded paper tiles), lantern making, liusu (tassel) making, origami and trivia.
Holi Festival
The International Student Association hosts the Festival of Colors, an annual spring event celebrating the Hindu Holi Festival. The event, symbolizing rejuvenation and optimism, celebrates the arrival of spring after winter, signifies the victory of good over evil, and, for many, a festive day to meet others, laugh, forgive and forget.
International Education Week
The annual International Week is a campus-wide event held during the fall semester and features customs, foods, and attire from a variety of ethnicities and cultures represented at UNMC. Ping-Pong and badminton tournaments are also part of the International Week festivities, which are organized by UNMC’s International Student Association.
Chinese Cultural Fair
The Chinese Cultural Fair is held every year around the Chinese New Year, providing an opportunity to to celebrate Chinese culture with food, crafts, games, music and dance. UNMC’s Chinese Scholarship Council students are the main organizers of the event.
International Photo Contest
Our annual photo contest, open to all members of the UNMC community, features photos capturing the culture, spirit and landscapes of other countries, inspiring adventure, cultural awareness and diversity. The 2023 grand prize winning photo above, by Devashri Gandhi, is titled "Purity of Soul."
2004 International Photo Contest
Official Contest Rules
Open to all members from the UNMC community. You can submit up to three (3) separate photos. Photos must be taken from outside the United States and should capture the culture, spirit, or landscape of the country. We are looking for photos that inspire adventure, cultural awareness, and international diversity. This year, we have three categories: Cityscapes/Architecture, Landscapes/Nature, and People/Animals. Photos will be judged anonymously on originality, creativity, photographic quality, and communication of culture and place. *We will not accept photos submitted in previous years’ contests.
- Purpose: To highlight the UNMC community’s talent and provide visual resources needed to tell stories of global engagement.
- Who May Enter: Current UNMC students, residents, faculty, and staff.
- What May Be Entered: A maximum of three (3) high-resolution images may be entered per person. Color and black & white images are accepted. Entries MUST be in electronic format. Electronic images must be saved and submitted as JPEGs of at least 300 dpi. Entries must be the ORIGINAL WORK of the entrant and must be photographs taken OUTSIDE the United States. Photos should capture the culture, spirit or landscape of the country.
- Submission Procedures: Entries must be accompanied by the official online Submission Form (link below), fully completed and signed by the entrant.
- Copyright Policy: Rights are retained by the artist. By signing the submission form and media release form, however, entrants are agreeing that they grant UNMC and the Office of Global Engagement royalty-free use of submitted photographs in displays and in print and electronic publications. The artist will be fully credited in all such displays and publications.
- Judging Criteria: Entries will be judged on Originality and Creativity, Photographic Quality, and Communication of Culture and Place. All decisions of the judges are final. Entries which do not conform to the contest rules will be disqualified. Prizes will be awarded to the grand prize winner, and the top photo in each category for each division. Entries will require some additional background information (date, location, title, & short description) which might be incorporated into such things as contest displays and later publications.
- Deadline for Entries: March 31, 2023 (end of day)
- Contact Us: For more information, please email globalprograms@unmc.edu.
Photo Submission Form
All entries must be submitted through this electronic form. Please answer all required questions to complete your submission.
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