The annual UNESCO World Press Freedom Day event shines a spotlight on issues of freedom of speech and of the press, giving an international platform for the work of brave journalists and for the activists who fight to secure and sustain these freedoms in diverse locations worldwide.

The Global Scholars Hall is an exciting new campus community offering rich academic and cultural opportunities. It is a program that encourages and celebrates global and intellectual involvement through a wide variety of residential academic programs, including immersive language programs in French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. 

Forced to evacuate his family during Mali’s recent coup, a UO anthropologist reflects on the experience and the culture and community he loves.

UO junior Sabrina Ahmed applied for and received the Gilman scholarship to study in Rwanda with the School for International Training during the Spring 2012 semester. Because of this experience, Sabrina is now planning to further her education in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. Sabrina writes of her experience:

Seven University of Oregon students have received U.S. Student Program Fulbright awards for international study or research during 2012-13, bringing the total number of UO student Fulbright recipients to 201 in the program’s history.

The recipients are Gina Blackburn (Physics, Germany), Catherine Gifford (Urban Development and Planning, Denmark) Lucy Gubbins (English Teaching Assistantship, Armenia), Brian Guy (Political Science, Senegal), Jade Snelling (English Teaching Assistantship, Germany), Jason Tashea (Law, Kosovo), and Adhiraj Vable (Interdisciplinary Studies, India).

The third annual Cinema Pacific film festival will bring three prominent figures in Asian media back to Eugene, where their careers were launched as students at the University of Oregon.

Actor Daniel Wu, producer Roger Lee and photographer Russel Wong will headline the film festival that runs from April 18 to April 22 with 30 events, including film screenings on campus and in Eugene, lectures, receptions, and a 72-hour film competition and other interactive opportunities.

The University of Oregon has agreed to collaborate with Guatemala’s Historical Archive of the National Police, along with other universities and organizations, on a series of projects that may shed light on police actions during the Central American country’s 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996.

Dennis Galvan, the UO’s vice provost for international affairs, recently signed a memorandum of understanding to work with the Historical Archive of the National Police (AHPN) on the projects, which were triggered by the 2005 discovery of a trove of police archival collections. 

In "Romani Routes," University of Oregon cultural anthropologist Carol Silverman details her years of research on Europe's largest ethnic minority, Roma, who long have been revered internationally for their folk music but reviled as a people.

The University of Oregon in association with Oxford University and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs are pleased to announce an innovative collaboration to create an international network of Carnegie universities and colleges.  The Global Ethics Network and the Carnegie Global Oregon Learning Community will engage students and faculty across the world in dialogue and inquiry about ethics, war, and peace; global social justice; and religion in politics.

Led by Claire Weil and Alison Walt, the Global Oregon undergraduate student team is developing a mobile app for smartphones to be used in the 2012-2013 academic year. The application will ‘go live’ twice during the coming academic year, inserting a 7-question survey on internationalization into the UO smartphone application. After completing the survey, participants will be eligible to win prizes from the University of Oregon Duck Store.