The University of Oregon once again earns a spot among the top five institutions for Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships, with a total of 18 recipients who will study abroad for summer 2016.

“Our Gilman Scholars continue to have a strong and increasing presence at a national level,” said Kathy Poole, executive director of Global Education Oregon (GEO).

Two UO students have been selected to receive the prestigious David L. Boren Scholarship to study abroad during the 2016-17 academic year.

Ava Jamerson and Elizabeth Baer will each receive $20,000 in funding towards their year abroad. Jamerson will be participating in the Chinese Flagship Capstone program in Nanjing, China and Baer will be attending Japan Women’s University in Tokyo, Japan on an exchange program.

Editors note: This article first appeared in The Register Guard

Foreign Language and International Studies Day (FLIS) will be May 6.^. This day-long celebration is the largest event dedicated to language and culture in Oregon. More than 1100 high school students and teachers from throughout Oregon come to the UO campus for a day of language, culture, and entertainment presented by UO faculty, staff, and students. Presentations range from a show by UO’s dance troupe, “K-Aire” to the more classical world of “Le Théâtre Français”. And everything in between—study abroad, Russian Food, Chinese Calligraphy, Music of the Andes and much more.

1,500 students across the nation applied to Fund for Education Abroad's Scholarship. Among all the applicants, UO student Lukas Heaton was selected to receive $1,562 to help make his goal of studying in Rosario, Argentina happen. Lukas will be participating in GEO's Spanish Language in Rosario program this summer. 

The excerpt below is from blog entry entitlted Building a Career Through Volunteer Abroad published by Mobility International USA, April 2016.

University of Oregon Graduate School is encouraging master's and doctoral students to apply for the Oregon Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff). The deadline to apply is Friday, April 29, 2016.

The UO’s Gabon-Oregon Center on March 22-24 co-hosted, with the Gabonese Minister of Higher Education, a conference in Libreville, Gabon entitled “The Restructuring of Scientific Research and New Partnerships”. This conference, which was opened by the Gabonese Prime Minister, was attended throughout by the Minister of Higher Education, the Director of the Eugene Branch of the Gabon-Oregon Center, Ambassador Eric Benjaminson, and the Director of the Libreville Branch of the GOC, Mr. Francis Bivigou.

UO language experts, current students, and staff will join eight speakers as part of the Alumni Roundtable on Career Benefits of Language Learning on Thursday, March 31, at Gerlinger Ballroom, 4-5:30 pm.

The event is organized by the UO Language Council, in collaboration with the UO Alumni Association and Global Studies Institute.

When it comes to cradles of agriculture, West Africa does not often get a look in. The Sahel is better known as a place of famine than of feasting, but it wasn’t always so, and even today the Bamana people of Mali have a rich food culture.