EUGENE, OR, May 28, 2014—The University of Oregon has joined the Institute of International Education (IIE)’s Generation Study Abroad initiative to double the number of American students who study abroad by the end of the decade. The initiative is also focusing on increasing the diversity of the students who study abroad, ensuring quality, and removing barriers to participation. UO has committed to increasing the number of students who study abroad by 40% over the next five years.

Local media spoke with Vice Provost for International Affairs Dennis Galvan about the upcoming World Junior Championships and UO Global Expo projects.

KEZI 9: Flags fly for World Junior Championships

The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) announced this week the national winners of the 2013 Mark of Excellence Awards, recognizing collegiate work published or broadcasted during 2013.

The awards honor the best in student journalism. As such, judges were directed to choose only those entries they felt were outstanding work worthy of a national honor.

A group of UO journalism students, led by Professor Carol Ann Bassett, took first place in the category of online in-depth reporting for their multimedia project titled “Along the Route of the Whale.”

EUGENE, Oregon (May 20, 2014) – The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has implemented a new scholarship program called Global Corners. A total of $100,000 scholarship funds will be available annually for promising international undergraduate and graduate students at University of Oregon.

This story first appeared in UO's Cascade magazine Spring 2014 edition. Cascade is a produciton of the UO College of Arts and Sciences.

Will transformations in food production destabilize China?

China now has 20 percent of the world’s population of seven billion people, but less than 10 percent of the world’s arable land. This lopsided equation is of special interest to Dan Buck, an associate professor of geography.

AHA Study Abroad student Molly Lazaron snapshot of the Cathedral of Segoiva has become more than a memento, it has been featured in CNN's iReport Travel Photo of the Day.

Professor Motoyuki Shibata is Japan's leading translator of contemporary American literature and the founder of a Tokyo-based literary magazine, Monkey Business. He has translated the works of Paul Auster, Steven Millhauser, Stuart Dybek, and Richard Powers, among others. In 2010, Professor Shibata has received the Japan Translation Cultural Prize for his translation of Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

EUGENE, Oregon (May 1, 2014) – A total of 18 students from the University of Oregon have been selected as Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipients for summer 2014—the highest number of recipients the UO has ever had in one application cycle. The UO now ranks fourth nationally in the highly competitive scholarship that helps students cover the costs of their study abroad program, research or internship.

Steve Huter director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research Associate at the University of Oregon, has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. 

The Internet Society selected a total of 24 inductees, representing 13 countries as part of 2014 Internet Hall of Fame. Inductees were recognized for their commitment to creating new technologies and standards that were foundational to the Internet’s development and expansion, pushing the boundaries of technological and social innovation to connect the world.