UNMC is on the world stage

For the past six years, UNMC has been building relationships with academic health centers and hospitals around the world. It started in China and has grown to Russia and India.

Inside the latest issue of UNMC Connect — now available online — you’ll discover how UNMC has become a cosmopolitan campus, with more than 60 different languages spoken by 600 faculty, staff and students who are either foreign born or here on work visas.

The issue’s cover story, “UNMC on the world stage,” also highlights how UNMC’s international initiative is helping to improve global health through education, research and outreach.

About Connect UNMC Connect is published twice a year by the departments of Public Relations, Alumni Relations and the University of Nebraska Foundation. Individuals may pick up a printed copy of UNMC Connect from magazine racks placed around the UNMC campus. Individuals also may contact Elizabeth Kumru at ekumru@unmc.edu or 559-4691 with requests for copies or with story ideas. The next issue of UNMC Connect will be published in February.

In addition to UNMC’s international collaborations, the summer edition highlights:

• New facilities and changes in curriculum and admissions that are part of an initiative to reduce the nursing shortage;
  
• The opening of the Home Instead Center for Successful Aging, which strives to help seniors live healthier, happier lives;
  
• Two UNMC alums and native Nebraskans who have dedicated their lives to save children around the world;
  
• The new cancer center that will stimulate research and translate discoveries into personalized treatment for each patient;
  
• Longtime UNMC supporters Virginia Grissom and the late Robert Grissom, M.D.; and
  
• How the Americans with Disabilities Act, passed 20 years ago, has affected the lives of people with disabilities.

Readers also will find a variety of Web extras, which provide a wealth of additional information on many of the stories.