Posts Tagged global engagement

Naomi Rutagarama ’18 reports on a visit to Kumasi, the seat of power of the Ashanti kingdom, where an important ceremony takes place every sixth Sunday.

Mechanical engineering student Alan Xu ’18 is introduced to the power of photogrammetry — along with the power of nature — during his summer research trip to Ghana.

After being eliminated in the regionals, four international students have been chosen as wild cards for the Hult Prize, the largest social entrepreneurship competition in the world, with a reward of $1 million seed money.

When conducting field research around the world, young social scientists can often feel as if they are starting from scratch. A new website envisioned by political scientist Gretchen Helmke will help scholars share resources with other social scientists on the ground.

The Office of Global Engagement can quickly locate and assist University travelers around the world through the use of the global travel registry.

Egyptian sisters Yasmin and Ayaa Elgoharry will each graduate from the Warner School with master’s degrees in education leadership, becoming the first in their family to earn college degrees.

Engineers Without Borders partners with the Escuela Taller Santa Maria Josefa Rossello school to provide clean drinking water for the more than 400 pre-K-through-8th grade students

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences some of the most extreme weather patterns on Earth, making it an ideal location for Rochester climate scientists to student the complex web of global climate patterns.

Daria Lynch ’18 (T5 ’19), a history major, and Christian Wooddell ’17, an anthropology major, will be heading overseas this summer as part of the U.S. State Department program.

Anis Kallel ’17 is already working to improve the education system in his home country.