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."
2024 International Photo Contest Winners Announced
Grand Prize winner: Jaime Yrastorza, “Eye of Andros”
The Office of Global Engagement (OGE) has announced the winners of its Fourth Annual International Photo Contest.
The contest had 17 faculty/staff and 12 student/resident participants, for a total of 83 photos submitted. Thank you to everyone who submitted photographs for the contest.
The winners are:
Grand prize winner:
- Jaime Yrastorza, “Eye of Andros”
Student/resident winners:
- Cityscapes/Architecture first place: Jhyama Gurung “Charm of Monkey”
- Landscapes/Nature first place: Jaime Yrastorza, “Eye of Andros”
- People/Animals first: Susan Greni, "ជិះកង់ទៅសាលារៀន Bike ride to school"
- Honorable Mention: Currey Zalman, “Where law meets color: a spectrum”
- Honorable Mention: Susan Greni, “Electronic garden by the bay”
- Honorable Mention: Jaime Yrastorza, “Over the falls”
- Honorable Mention: Jainaha Srikumar, “Barefoot in the pouring rain”
Faculty/staff winners:
- Cityscape/sArchitecture first place: Carl Lowery, “The greatest wonder of the world”
- Landscapes/Nature first place: Stefanie Neumann, “Fairy chimney balloons”
- People/Animals first place: Stephen Peters, “We see you”
- Honorable Mention: Mary Edgerton, “Sunset in Havanna”
- Honorable Mention: Stefanie Neumann, “Ready for takeoff!”
- Honorable Mention: Irving Zucker, “Taking sugar cane to market”
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