News & Events
Keep up on news about UNMC's community of international students and study abroad students.
Our Signature Events
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International Student Welcome Lunch & Ambassador Appreciation
This September event for international students provides a time for meeting and learning about each other and UNMC.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
D.J. and Janet Thayer Family Global Engagement Award
The inaugural D.J. and Janet Thayer Family Global Engagement Award is presented to Shannon Maloney, PhD, assistant professor, Department of Health Promotion, College of Public Health.
This award is intended to foster the growth and development of collaborations in global health and global engagement among full-time faculty at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Global health and engagement encompass the various means by which faculty connect UNMC with the international community through their teaching, research, and service. Shannon Maloney’s proposal seeks to establish an international research collaborative between UNMC and one or more research institutions in India. Working alongside community-based organizations, this partnership will develop and evaluate a crucial preconception health intervention. The project is anticipated to advance the health and wellbeing of mothers both domestically and internationally. This award recognizes Dr. Maloney’s efforts in fostering global connections and understanding.
Office of Global Engagement Announces International Photo Contest winners
The Potters Touch,” by Santosh Shrestha, is the grand prize winner of the Fifth Annual International Photo Contest.
The Office of Global Engagement has announced the winners of its Fifth Annual International Photo Contest.
The contest had 9 student/resident and 17 faculty/staff participants for a total of 70 photos submitted. Thank you to all those who submitted photos for the contest.
The international photos were judged based on originality and creativity, photographic quality and communication of culture and place. The contest had three categories: Cityscapes/Architecture, Landscapes/Nature and People/Animals.
The winners are:
Grand prize winner:
- Santosh Shrestha, “The Potters Touch”
Student/resident winners:
- Cityscapes/Architecture first place: Jhyama Gurung “Lost From Window”
- Landscapes/Nature first place: Ryan Antony, “Bow Range”
- People/Animals first place: Santosh Shrestha, "The Potters Touch"
- Honorable Mention: Kendra Kozisek “Descent”
- Honorable Mention: Ashruti Pant, “Through Every Colorful Window, a Different Perspective Unfolds”
- Honorable Mention: Ryan Antony, “Look Up”
- Honorable Mention: Dipanwita Das, “Walks of Life”
- Honorable Mention: Jhyama Gurung, “Horse: Wheel of Himalays”
Faculty/staff winners:
- Cityscapes/Architecture first place: Vladislav Muldiiarov, “Tram to the Past”
- Landscapes/Nature first place: Hager Kowash, “Mirrored Horizon”
- People/Animals first place: Allison Anderson, “Peek-a-boo I See You”
- Honorable Mention: Chittalsinh Raulji, “Sacred Lights: Notre-Dame at Dusk”
- Honorable Mention: Irving Zucker, “Cambodia Head”
- Honorable Mention: Vladislav Muldiiarov, “The Path to Unity”
- Honorable Mention: Arpita Chatterjee, “A Morning Conversation”
- Honorable Mention: Vladislav Muldiiarov, “Born of the Sea”
See the winners at the Office of Global Engagement website.
View all the 2025 submitted photos here.
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