Landscape architecture students who spent the spring semester studying abroad in Germany paired up with their counterparts from Nürtingen University to design gardens that connect the German city of Überlingen with Mainau Island in the International Design Workshop.
An award-winning faculty member in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications has earned a Fulbright Scholar grant to conduct research and teach in Greece during the 2019-20 academic year.
A summer internship in Philadelphia inspired Schreyer Honors Scholar Jessica Chou to study environmental sustainability in Denmark during the spring semester.
Penn State students and alumni will travel to all corners of the globe for the 2019-2020 school year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
Alanna Powers, who will graduate with degrees in advertising/public relations and English on May 4, was selected to complete an English teaching assistantship in the Czech Republic during the 2019-20 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
For nine students enrolled in HIST/JST 426 The Holocaust and History, the memory landscapes they had studied in class became meaningful reality on an embedded program trip to Poland and Lithuania during spring break last month.
Schreyer Scholars and Presidential Leadership Academy members Ezra Gershanok and Charles Ryan are looking to develop their problem-solving skills and learn from international perspectives during a year in the London School of Economics and Political Science's The General Course study abroad program.
Brian Brubaker, director of education abroad in Penn State Global Programs, and Wendy Coduti, assistant professor of education (rehabilitation and human services), held a session at the Forum on Education Abroad that examined best practices in recruiting, preparing and supporting students with disabilities in education abroad.
Michelle Yezek, a student at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, presented scholarly research in Paris, France in collaboration with Elaine Barry, associate professor of human development and family studies.
Studying justice and the origins of theater, 10 Penn State Schuylkill students enrolled in an interdisciplinary course with an extraordinary global perk: a week-long trip to Greece.
Over the past few years, the Global Safety Office within Global Programs has been working on ways to be more proactive in providing resources and information to the Penn State community. In addition to the Travel Safety Network, which gathers information on Penn Staters traveling abroad to better support them in an emergency, the team also trains students, faculty and staff on international health and safety, provides 24/7 emergency support, and consults with travelers to higher-risk destinations.
Students in Russian courses this semester had the opportunity to attend the Russian Cultural Immersion program in Moscow over spring break.
Students enrolled in CRIM 425 Organized Crime had the opportunity to travel to the island of Curacao over spring break. They discussed several criminology topics affecting the island, like drug smuggling, gangs, crime in prisons, and criminal investigations.
Students in the courses CRIM 197 and CRIM 422 participated in an embedded program called “Victimization in the Netherlands” and went to Amsterdam, Netherlands over spring break. The program focused on victimization and the different policy problems that the Netherlands experiences compared to the United States.
Penn State Students in PSYCH 212 Introduction to Developmental Psychology went to Siem Reap, Cambodia over spring break where they had the chance to lead educational activities with local staff and teachers.
