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Editorial Note: This article first appeared in Today on Tuesday, December 9, 2014.

SINGAPORE — The tussle for the marathon gold medal at next year’s SEA Games could prove an exciting one for home fans, with United States-based Soh Rui Yong set to give reigning champion Mok Ying Ren a run for his money.

Running in the California International Marathon yesterday morning, national 10,000m record holder Soh clocked an impressive 2hr 26min 01 sec to finish fifth in the men’s 20- to 24-year-old category, and was placed 37th overall.

The International Student Association (ISA) announced this week that it will be moving its iconic Coffee Hour to the Ford Alumni Center Ballroom. The event, a weekly mixer that fosters interaction between international students and the community at large, has traditionally been held at Mills International Center every Friday from 4-6 p.m. since 1982. However, the current reconstruction of the EMU has greatly hampered the weekly meet-up.

ISA is changing venues in order to continue to provide a safe space for both domestic students and international students  to come together.

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).