This summer, University of Utah John R. Park Debate Society members Averie Vockel, Assistant Director of Forensics, and Aubrie Powers, a returning senior member and the team’s outreach intern, traveled to China to teach debate for Weschool Speech & Debate Association (WSDA)—an organization that promotes educational speech and debate competition for students in China through […]
Read MoreThis post originally appeared on @theU and was published September 23, 2025. This article is republished here with permission. This summer, Incheon, South Korea welcomed the world as more than 5,800 participants from 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) member economies gathered for the 2025 meetings. Over three weeks, ministers and high-level officials met at Songdo […]
Read MoreNine student gamers from the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) traveled from Incheon, South Korea, to compete at the first-ever Honolulu International Esports Tournament, hosted by Farrington High School on March 29. They were joined by a Games major from the University of Utah’s Salt Lake City campus, representing the university on a global stage. […]
Read MoreIn a landmark example of cross-cultural collaboration, students from the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) are leading the design of a Korea-themed sister city park in Cottonwood Heights, Utah — a visionary project that merges landscape architecture, diplomacy, and global education. This post originally appeared on April 15, 2025 and was published Utah Asia […]
Read MoreBy sending scholars abroad, welcoming international students to our campuses, and fostering partnerships with colleagues and institutions around the globe, we serve the University of Utah’s mission to positively impact our global community. It is with that mission in mind that we invite you to reflect on our 2024 progress toward a more Global U.
Read MoreIn Summer 2024, the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) students seized a hands-on learning opportunity by joining Film & Media Arts professor Yee Sien Ang on an international film project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This initiative allowed students to immerse themselves in a professional film environment as they took part in producing a brand […]
Read MoreThis piece originally appeared on the Good Notes blog. When you picture a developing country, what do you see? Political strife, poverty, government corruption? You might not think that a country like Rwanda could teach us how to improve as a health care system. But it can, and it is. Transcending borders This summer, a group […]
Read MorePhotos by Audrey Clark “I love being able to connect with a place that has so much love for movies,” said Film & Media Arts student Audrey Clark, who has spent the last semester in Cannes, France, studying at the Université Côte d’Azur as part of a U study abroad program. “The richness in history in Europe […]
Read MoreWhat is a Faculty-led Learning Abroad Program? Faculty-led programs represent just one of the many avenues available to University of Utah students who want to study abroad. These programs integrate the academic expertise of faculty with immersive, hands-on education in foreign locations. Students earn University of Utah credits while participating in these faculty-led learning abroad […]
Read MoreIn the early days of 2020, the Office for Global Engagement was making final preparations to establish the Global LEAP program—a distinctive, early-career learning abroad opportunity that would enable Freshmen spend their second semester at the University Asia Campus in South Korea. But when the project was blanketed in the uncertainty that became the hallmark […]
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