Global Engagement

SEED program hosted 18 students this summer

The Summer Experiential Education Program is a collaboration between the UNMC Office of Global Engagement and the UNMC Physical Therapy Program.

Oct 15, 2026

SEED students during summer

Decade-long partnership brings UAV student cohort to UNMC

Four students from Universidad Anáhuac Veracruz participated in a one-month immersion program on the Omaha campus.

Oct 13, 2026

From left, UAV students Verónica Dinora Duarte Ruíz, Cristhian Rafael Jácome Parada, Andrea Sánchez Yáñez and Dulce María Sangabriel Galindo pose at the stethoscope sculpture in front of the Sorrell Center in Omaha.

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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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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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

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

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

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.

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.

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)