The following report appeared in the Register Guard on Monday, February 11, 2013:

Hooked by tales of derring-­­do in remote places, University of Oregon students are volunteering for the Peace Corps at a higher than average rate.

This year, the UO is the eighth-highest volunteer-­producing campus out of the nation’s largest universities.

The number of Chinese undergraduates on U.S. campuses has grown at a faster rate than the development of policies and services to better meet the needs of these students. This raises questions for staff and faculty working with the students.

A Gabonese delegation headed by education minister Séraphin Moundounga spent a full day at the University of Oregon on Monday and heard descriptions of potential research projects that could result from a new Gabon/Oregon Transnational Research Center on Environment and Development.

The UO has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to award and administer Freeman Internship Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students conducting internships in East and Southeast Asia.

The funds, administered by the UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, offers fellowships 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.

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Long before World War II, Adolf Hitler was laying the groundwork for what promised to be one of the most extensive art heists Europe had ever known.

A UO delegation visited Kuwait and United Arab Emirates in the Middle East.

The visit was a first step to establish strategic contacts to promote study abroad and internship programs in the area, recruit students from these countries and explore new research opportunities that benefit the UO and countries in the region.

The UO delegation, which included Vice Provost for International Affairs Dennis Galvan and Assistant Vice President for Development John Manotti was welcomed in Kuwait by a group of more than 30 international alums and host Mr. Jameel Al Sane.

Abandoned as a child in China, Wyatt Harris never knew his biological parents growing-up thousands of miles away in Oregon.

But a UO study abroad opportunity in 2010, became the first step in a long journey to find his roots and original family in China.

Read the complete story by Kimber Williams in the latest edition of Oregon Quarterly Winter 2012.