When U alum Jordan Gossett realized she had room in her senior year schedule, she decided to spend it in service to her long-held interest in the Holocaust. The 2020 history and international studies graduate had experience taking her education abroad, having participated in a Learning Abroad program in Morocco the year before, and said, […]
Read MoreThe Center for Medical Innovation (CMI) at the University of Utah announced plans this week to expand its operations to the University of Utah Asia Campus (UAC) on the Incheon Global Campus. Working in conjunction with the Incheon Free Economic Zone (IFEZ), the CMI Asia division will focus on supporting start-ups and early-stage biotechnology companies with commercialization resources and […]
Read MoreThe University of Utah’s College of Mines and Earth Sciences (CMES) has signed dual degree agreements with the College of Science at National Taiwan University (NTU). The agreement allows students to concurrently earn degrees from both universities. This program, along with another agreement between CMES and Taiwan’s National Central University (NCU), are the first international dual degree […]
Read MoreNot long after the dust settled on the transition to remote learning across campus in March, the Office of International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) started shifting their efforts to a new challenge–what would it take to bring new international students to the U in the fall, given the challenges presented by Covid-19? In a […]
Read MoreDr. Steve Burian Helps Train Pakistan’s Next Professors In the last days of February, Covid-19 still seemed a far-away threat to most in Utah, but Dr. Steve Burian was watching closely as international airports began issuing travel restrictions. He had recently returned home from meeting with research partners in Pakistan and was days away from […]
Read MoreMORAN 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 […]
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