Global Engagement

academic affairs, College of Medicine, family medicine, outreach, UNMC, unmc community

Decade-Long Global Partnership Brings Second UAV Student Cohort to UNMC

The year 2026 marks a major milestone: a decade of partnership between the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) and Universidad Anáhuac Veracruz (UAV) in Mexico. To celebrate this ongoing collaboration, four UAV students traveled to Omaha this past July to participate in the International Academic Observership in Family Medicine—the second cohort hosted under this […]

Sep 30, 2026

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academic affairs, outreach, physical therapy, research, unmc community

Largest cohort participates in physical therapy summer program

Eighteen students from three Asian universities participated in the UNMC Summer Experiential Education (SEED) program in physical therapy this past summer. Students finished the program with a sense of patient-centered care and professionalism. One student shadowed an in-patient physical therapist at Nebraska Medicine, gaining firsthand insight into care across multiple specialty units. “Because many patients […]

Sep 29, 2026

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Outreach, UNMC Community

Universidad Anahuac leaders visit UNMC

The university, in Veracruz, Mexico, is celebrating a 10-year collaboration with UNMC.

Sep 29, 2026

Luis Linares Romero, PhD, chancellor of Universidad Anahuac, and H. Dele Davies, MD, chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center
Research

Study aims to understand mpox-related vision loss

NIH grant is funding a multinational effort led by UNMC’s Steven Yeh, MD.

Sep 22, 2026

Steven Yeh, MD
Inside UNMC

UNMC Office of Global Engagement releases annual report

The report highlights a year of milestones in expanding international partnerships and elevating education abroad.

Jun 11, 2026

Jane Meza, PhD, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs
College of Medicine, Global Learning, Scott Scholars, UNMC

Beyond the Border: A Global Learning Experience

During the summer of 2025, siblings Eben and Esther Samuel, both M1s, joined 14 other UNMC medical students for the university’s inaugural Scott Scholars Global Immersion Program in Xalapa, Mexico. Through a strategic partnership between the UNMC Office of Global Engagement and the Universidad Anáhuac, Veracruz, the Scott Scholars Program successfully launched a new student […]

May 14, 2026

A DIF staff member shows students (standing left to right: Elias Smith, Caden Connealy, Nolan Zeger, Mitchell Blaine; sitting left to right: Eben Samuel & Jacob Rademacher) a plaster mold that was created. He will use this mold to design the prosthetic for this patient.
Student News, UNMC Community

Global engagement announces International Photo Contest winners

A total of 74 photos were submitted by 30 faculty, staff, students and residents.

May 13, 2026

“Before the Vows,” by UNMC student Ridhi Bhola is the grand prize winner of the UNMC Office of Global Engagement's Sixth Annual International Photo Contest.
Student News, UNMC Community

iTEACH Awards recognize contributions to campus, community life

UNMC students, faculty and staff were recognized at a ceremony with Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD, and Mayor John Ewing Jr.

Apr 29, 2026

From left, UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD; UNMC medical students Winnie Ladu and Omar Ceesay; Omaha Mayor John Ewing Jr.; and Vice Chancellor for Campus Engagement Sheritta Strong, MD. (Photo credit Lily Butler)
Outreach

UNMC, India research institute expand longtime partnership

A new memorandum of understanding with the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute expands the partnership that began in 2009.

Mar 30, 2026

Attending the signing ceremony were, from left: Jane Meza, PhD, interim vice chancellor for academic affairs at UNMC; Chandra Are, MBBS, UNMC's senior associate dean of graduate medical education; T. Subramanyeshwar Rao, MBBS, medical director of the Basavatarakam Indo-American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute; UNMC Interim Chancellor H. Dele Davies, MD; and Bradley Britigan, MD, dean of the UNMC College of Medicine.
Outreach

Experts from UNMC, Egypt lead biosafety and security workshop

The three-day event in Cairo brought together researchers and scientists for an intensive training session.

Mar 20, 2026

UNMC researchers, in collaboration with experts from Egypt, led a biosafety and security training workshop in Cairo.