Dr. Stergiou created the UNO Department of Biomechanics and the UNO Center for Research in Human Movement Variability. Both units are the first of their kind in the world. He has been the only UNO faculty member to serve on the University of Nebraska Medical Center Graduate Council and serve as a chair of a graduate program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He has a paid faculty appointment at the College of Public Health for many years and he has held adjunct faculty appointments at various departments at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, UNO, and the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He has developed PhD programs at the College of Public Health of the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the College of Engineering of the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He graduated the first doctoral student from the University of Nebraska Lincoln Biomedical Engineering PhD program. He has also led the approval of the doctoral program in exercise science at UNO in 2012, which was the first approved standalone doctoral program at this university. He also organized the entire program and developed the entire curriculum as the first Chair of the Doctoral Program Committee. He has led the development of a BS program in Biomechanics which is just the third such program in the nation. UNO and his Department of Biomechanics is now offering a master's degree in Biomechanics and a PhD in Biomechanics and Kinesiology.