Travel grants available through Penn State Global Programs provide some of the resources to support faculty travel related to developing global awareness, global literacy and global competency among Penn State's undergraduate population and to promote global leadership in scholarship and international engagements for graduate students.
Penn State student Emily Moskowitz spent the summer in Tel Aviv, completing a design/photography internship with an e-commerce agency.
Penn State undergraduate students from all campuses and fields of study who are interested in expanding their knowledge beyond the classroom through engagement experiences are encouraged to apply for a Student Engagement Network grant by Sept. 6.
A free public screening of the sports documentary “Running Home,” which tells the story of humanitarian, accomplished middle-distance runner and coach Tony Ruiz, will be conducted at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 30 in Carnegie Cinema.
Laura Guay, a rising junior majoring in biobehavioral health and French and Francophone studies, with a minor in global health, has been named a 2020 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Fellow.
The Penn State Abington faculty traveled to Ghana intent on establishing a new study abroad option for students. Little did they know how nine days in the West African nation would upend their psyches.
Three students in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences participated in Penn State’s Study Away Pittsburgh program, which is designed to give students an immersive semester-long opportunity to study urban sustainability while living in Pittsburgh.
From its gorgeous beaches to energetic cities, Thailand is known for its iconic tourist attractions. Penn State students who recently toured the Southeast Asian nation as part of a Maymester study course took the road less traveled, learning about natural hazards facing the developing nation, with pit stops visiting elephant sanctuaries, animal hospitals, hydroelectric plants and mangrove-lined coastlines.
Samantha Beebe shares her experience serving as a faculty lead for a group of Global Health students to Ecuador this summer.
A Penn State entrepreneurship student majoring in computer science was part of a team that took third place at an Intel AI innovation challenge organized and hosted by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Where were you during the Apollo moon landing 50 years ago? For 60 former Penn State choir members, the answer is easy — they were performing an open-air concert in the Stadium of Apollo in Delphi, Greece. Today, international tours remain a highlight for Penn State musicians, providing unique performance opportunities and bonding experiences.
Coming from the small town of Limeport, near Allentown, a young Annalyse Kehs may not have thought much about international agriculture or feeding the world. But thanks to a project called PlantVillage, the Penn State rising senior not only is helping to address world hunger but is relishing the opportunity to travel to destinations such as Kenya and Rome to interact with farmers, researchers and policymakers.
Penn State students studying health care, sports or community disciplines can enroll in the elective course NURS 499 for the fall 2019 semester to learn about their field of interest and then travel to Kerala, India, to perform community service as it relates to their field of study while also seeing some of India’s landmark sites.
By the midpoint of her sophomore year, Katya Iatsenko had already served as an undergraduate researcher and presented at multiple conferences — but navigating the opportunity to study abroad wasn’t an exact science.
Gillian Warner, a rising junior in community, environment, and development, is passionate about animals, food security and learning. She found a place for all these interests -- and more -- in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
