We are excited to announce that the application period for the 2014 Global Oregon Graduate and Undergraduate Grants is now open. These grants are intended to enhance students’ global education experiences, such as study abroad, international internships and international research opportunities. We invite UO graduate students to apply for one of five $2,000 research awards and UO undergraduate students to apply for one of ten $500 research awards.

Global Oregon is an initiative of the Global Studies Institute (gsi.uoregon.edu) in the UO Office of International Affairs.

Note: This articcle first appeared in the Emerald newspaper on Friday, January 17, 2014.

Halfway through his second year as University of Oregon president, Michael Gottfredson is still a mystery to many students. Here are five tidbits about the UO president that will leave you feeling like you’re on a first name basis:

The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has appointed former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome & Principe, Eric Benjaminson, as the first executive director of the Gabon Oregon Transnational Research Center on Environment and Development (GOC—Eugene, OR branch).  

Ambassador Benjaminson, originally from Brownsville, Oregon, and a UO alumnus (1981, History, Honors College), recently retired from a 32-year career with the US Foreign Service, having served in Europe, China, Canada, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Namibia, and Gabon.  

The Office of International Affairs (OIA) has appointed Professor Stephen Wooten as its new Associate Vice Provost and Director of Study Abroad.
 
Jointly appointed since 2001 to the Departments of International Studies and Anthropology, Wooten brings a wide range of prior research, administrative and programmatic experience to his new role in OIA.
 

A group of young UO journalists and their mentor Professor Carol Ann Bassett, from the UO School of Journalism and Communication, have generated buzz in local media and received a significant amount of social media kudos for their multimedia work documenting the migration of whales along the coast of Uruguay.

The project titled Route of the Whale is an interactive site that displays the route of different whale species along the coast of Uruguay and South America. The site features video footage, images and other content created by UO journalism students.

The Association of Pacific Rim Universities has announced the 7th APRU Undergraduate Summer Program (USP) to be hosted by Nanjing University in China from 6 to 13 July 2014.

The USP 2014 is a 1- week enriching program for outstanding APRU students from multidisciplinary fields.

Program Overview
With the theme, “Developing Asia-Pacific Global Leaders: China’s Perspectives”, the USP 2014 aims to:

The Office of International Affairs is in the process of selecting a new Associate Vice Provost and Director of Study Abroad, and the search committee would like your input.

EUGENE, OR (November 21, 2013) The Freeman Foundation has announced that it will renew a $100,000 grant to support undergraduate and graduate students conducting internships in East and Southeast Asia. 

The funds, administered by the UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS), provide UO students with grants of up to $6,000.

The grants allow students to choose an internship in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, or Vietnam.

The University of Washington (Seattle) is sponsoring its seventh annual “Model EU,” to take place February 7-8, 2014.  This is a national event, with undergraduate EU teams recruited from universities around the country. 

The U of O has been invited to send a team of two participants. The European Union Center at UW and the UO European Studies program will cover participants’ expenses. This will include travel to and from Seattle, hotel lodging and at least two meals.