Take your education abroad! Mark your calendar for the Learning Abroad Spring Fair, taking place both in-person and online January 23–27, 2023. Whether you are new to the U or a returning student, tune in to learn about the wide variety of international opportunities available to you as a University of Utah student. All week, the Learning Abroad […]
Read MoreProfessor Jay Jordan’s WRTG 4010 opened up borders during the height of COVID By the beginning of fall semester in 2020, the entire world knew that COVID-19 was here to stay. For schools and higher education institutions, that meant classes would resume via Zoom for an indefinite amount of time; and students and faculty alike […]
Read MoreInternational Education Week (IEW) 2022 wrapped up in spectacular fashion on Friday, November 18, as one of the most memorable iterations of the U’s beloved annual cultural celebration in recent history. The week (Nov.14–18) was presented in a hybrid format; with some departments continuing to reap the unique benefits of hosting online information sessions and […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah Asia Campus announced this summer that two majors from the David Eccles School of Business – Accounting and Information Systems – will be added to its curriculum beginning in the fall of 2022. In anticipation of the new programs’ arrival, the U Asia Campus’s senior public relations specialist, June-Young Lee, visited […]
Read MoreWe are excited to announce the winner of the ISA Global Opportunity Scholarship! Congratulations to Zuri Vasquez Bedolla, a double major in Spanish and Business Administration with a minor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Utah. She will be studying abroad at Universidad Antonio de Nebrija in Madrid this fall. Read more
Read MoreHigher education professionals agree that learning abroad fosters growth, but it is much harder to quantify exactly how a student’s intercultural skills change through those international experiences. The University of Utah Learning Abroad office set out on a mission to measure that growth several years ago and shared their recently-launched method with other learning abroad […]
Read More“When I listen to trot music, I get excited. I’m studying abroad to learn Korean” (Trot music – a traditional Korean pop music style that is mainly enjoyed by middle-aged and older generations) “My name is Lilly. I came to the University of Utah Asia Campus in Incheon to learn Korean. I like Trot songs.” […]
Read MoreChristina Nguyen ’25 is a recent graduate of Kearns High School in Salt Lake City, and is now a psychology major at the University of Utah. But unlike most of her peers who joined her in this year’s freshmen class at the U in Salt Lake City, Christina paved her own path by starting directly […]
Read MoreThree new leaders will soon join the University of Utah’s Office for Global Engagement (OGE). The three will offer vision and oversight for outgoing student mobility; support for incoming international students and scholars; and program development and risk mitigation, respectively. Alexandra Wallace will fill the role of Director for Learning Abroad in mid-May, Anastasia Fynn […]
Read MoreMechanical engineering student Katie Bezdjian has received a Fulbright Award. As part of the award, she will spend a year abroad where she will be studying thermophotovoltaics alongside researchers at the Solar Energy Institute at the Technical University of Madrid in Spain. The Fulbright program is an international educational exchange program designed to build relationships […]
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