World Bank President Jim Kim briefly describes the progress in Afghanistan over the past 10 years, and how people (including UO international studies graduate student, Najla Sabri) are grateful for the opportunities which allows for a positive future for the girls and women of this country.

http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/video/2013/03/14/jim-kim-visits-afghanistan

AHA's Sam Bethal and Lisa Calevi visited the headquarters of Idealist.org in Portland, where PDX Abroad had gathered 26 higher education professionals from Oregon and Washington to hold a Generation Study Abroad Think Tank.

The group was challenged with the question of "What will it take to double study abroad?"

The University of Oregon and its Department of Political Science are hosting the inaugural Globalization, Gender and Development Conference, October 23-24. The event will feature several multidisciplinary experts addressing modern issues of gender and development.

The conference was created by UO Professor Erin Beck and Professor Emerita Jane Jaquette from Occidental College. Both scholars noticed amazing and inspiring research related to gender taking place at the University of Oregon and thought of a way to bring UO's experts together with those from across the country.

Education New Zealand and the University of Otago have recently announced study abroad scholarships for the 2015 year.

Scholarships are offered as part of New Zealand’s Generation Abroad initiative.

Lori O'Hollaren, Associate Director of the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) has been named new Associate Director of the Global Studies Institute (GSI).

O'Hollaren will be holding a shared appointment with 70% of her time devoted to her new role within GSI, and the remainder of her time serving as associate director for CAPS.

Lamia Karim, associate head and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology addressed participants of the 2014 Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) Global Health Workshop hosted at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan in September.

Karim led a special presentation on health systems entitled Learning to Labor: Community-Based Healthcare and Female Garment Labor in Bangladesh.

Her presentation was based on research assessing the healthcare needs of female garment

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The National Science Foundation announced this week that the UO’s Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) is the recipient of a $3,732,343 award as part of the agency’s International Research Network Connections program.

The award is the largest active NSF grant to any academic department or center at the UO.

Assistant Professors Karrie Koesel (Political Science) and Eric Priest (Law) have been selected as fellows for the 2014 Public Intellectuals Program (PIP), the flagship program of the National Committee on US-China Relations. Twenty PIP fellows were chosen from a nationally competitive pool of emerging China specialists this year and tasked with helping to bridge the gap between China specialists and the global and domestic audiences eager to better understand the important issues in US-China relations.
 

This article first appeared in Around the O on September 9, 2014.