Beyond Borders: Celebrating the International Maverick
Gallery in Criss Library features student stories from international students hailing from 10 different countries. Here's a sneak peek.
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Varnika Tiwari (left), India, graduate student, management information systems. Louange Ngwej, Congo, sophomore, communications.
Majd Alrebeh (left), Saudi Arabia, sophomore, construction engineering. Sagar Mehta, India, graduate student, management information systems.
Eun Je Jang (left), South Korea, senior, communications and international studies. Garima Pandey, India, graduate student, management information systems.
Anson Dsouza (left), India, graduate student, management information systems. Sahfiya Mahamane Ousmane, Niger, junior, public health.
Saketh Sanganabatla (left), India, graduate student, management information systems. Eunice Lim, Singapore, junior, general studies.
Mohammed Al Alawi (left), Oman, ILUNO student, emergency management. Samyuktha Subbammagari, India, graduate student, management information systems.
Hui Zhu (left), China, Fulbright teaching assistant, international languages. Mahra Al Zadjali, Oman, freshman, information assurance.
Rakshit Rekhi (left), India, graduate student, management information systems. Sandra Ojer Viejo, Spain, senior, marketing.
Hirari Imanishi (left), Japan, sophomore, elementary education. Prerana Rai, Nepal, graduate student, information systems (not featured in Criss Library).
Omaha – There are nearly 2,000 international students from more than 100 countries at UNO, but not everyone knows their story.
UNO photographer Ryan Henriksen hopes his most recent work, Beyond Borders: Celebrating the International Maverick, can tell a piece of that story.
“Everyone passes them every day, and you don’t really know (their story),” Henriksen said. “This is something that has always been on my list.”
The students featured in the gallery hail from 10 countries and each of the six colleges at UNO.
They’re all really brilliant students and have unique qualities with what they want to get out of their education, and what they want to do with it when they go back home.
“They’re all really brilliant students and have unique qualities with what they want to get out of their education, and what they want to do with it when they go back home,” he added.
Most of the students took a big leap of hope in coming here. The majority had never set foot on campus, or even in the United States, before arriving for classes.
So what was the draw? It’s simple. Despite being halfway around the world, they heard great things from their peers about the programs offered at UNO.
Today, the students call Omaha their second home. They couldn’t say enough about how nice everyone in Omaha is, and how hospitable the staff and faculty are at UNO.
There is one thing, however, that Henriksen said received mixed reviews.
“They all said it was really cold.”