MORAN OUTREACH TEAM AND VOLUNTEERS CREATING COVID-19 PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT FOR HAITI AND BEYOND When Sophia Fang, MD, MS, learned a long-time partner of the John A. Moran Eye Center’s Global Outreach Division in Haiti had to shut its doors because of a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE) to battle a COVID-19 outbreak, she took action. Fang, […]
Read MoreThree University of Utah students have received highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2019-20 academic year. Additionally, four students were designated as an Alternate. The flagship international educational exchange program is designed to build relationships between people in […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s international connections are serving as a potent reminder of the benefits of collaboration across our global community as the deluge of dire news about COVID-19 floods newsfeeds and individuals feel increasingly isolated in its midst. In September 2014, when the university opened its U Asia Campus(UAC) in Incheon, South Korea, administrators […]
Read MoreFen Xu, Deputy Secretary General for Utah-Qinghai EcoPartnership; Franz Kolb, Director – International Trade and Diplomacy, Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development; Chris Ireland, University of Utah Chief Global Officer; and Cheri Daily, Director of External Relations and Global Programs for the University of Utah Office for Global Engagement help welcome a donation of 10,000 […]
Read MoreMay 20, 2019 | The U Water Center “I always had it in my mind that I would come back,” said Danyal Aziz. In 2016 Aziz was among the first 18 students to participate in a U.S.-Pakistan Center for Advanced Studies in Water Exchange. Since its launch, the program has welcomed 131 visiting scholars, both faculty […]
Read MoreBy Daniel Watson, marketing and technology coordinator, Learning Abroad Office for Global Engagement | @theU This summer, Learning Abroad’s Social Media Scholarship recipient and physician assistant student Nicole King, participated in the Thailand International Elective: Health Sciences program. In Thailand, King was exposed to urban and rural Thailand and learned first-hand about public health issues, clinical work, […]
Read MoreThree University of Utah students have been selected as finalists for the prestigious Fulbright scholarship. Zoe Diener, Kevin Priest, and Daniel Ybarra have received a highly competitive Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for the 2018-19 academic year. Diener (MS, public health) […]
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