This article first appeared in the Daily Emerald on Friday, December 19.

It’s one thing to sit in PLC 180 and see a slideshow of poverty and hunger. It’s a completely different experience to see it in person, according to Megan Garland, a UO senior majoring in international relations and Chinese.

Garland had such positive experiences studying abroad that she is about to embark on her fifth adventure through the UO study abroad office.

The Office of International Affairs and its Global Studies Institute have received a 2015 Silver Award in the category of websites from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for their Global Research interactive map project.

Editorial Note: This article first appeared in the New York Times on Thursday, November 20.

Editorial Note: This article first appeared in the Daily Emerald on Monday, November 24.

An Office of International Affairs (OIA) delegation led by Vice Provost Dennis Galvan and Associate Vice President for International Advancement John Manotti met in October with an enthusiastic crowd of UO alumni in Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia.

“Indonesia has one of the largest and most active UO alumni groups in Asia, and we were delighted to reconnect with their tremendous energy and Duck loyalty,” said Galvan.

Generation Study Abroad will be featuring “Disability-Inclusion Best Practices and National Trends” as part of their webinar series on Tuesday, December 2nd at 3:00pm Eastern Standard Time.

The webinar features diversity experts Cerise Roth-Vinson from Mobility International USA, and Gretchen Cook-Anderson from IES Abroad.

Editorial Note: This article first appeared in the Register Guard on Sunday, November 23.

Business students from China studying at the University of Oregon are transplanting old-fashioned Eugene do-gooderism back to the motherland.

For a fifth year, the UO-based Chinese Philanthropic Leadership Association is doing fundraising events — bake sales, flea markets, an annual “The Voice”-style singing contest — to pay for a summer project in China.

UO Japanese language students got a surprise visit in class from Consul General of Japan in Portland, Hiroshi Furusawa.

In December 2013, Consul Furusawa decided to honor all schools in Oregon that maintain a Japanese language program, to express his appreciation for efforts to better the relationship between Japan and the United States.

The acknowledgement is particularly important for Oregon, which has the second-highest percentage of people studying Japanese of any state in the country (only Hawaii is higher). 

The industry-leading Design Intelligence report by the Design Futures Council has ranked UO School of Architecture as the nation’s best for sustainable design practices and principles.

The UO outranked the University of California, Berkeley, MIT and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.