Posts Tagged global engagement

After graduating from high school in Nepal in 2017, Prajita Shrestha ’22 knew she needed a break. After a gap year spent writing, teaching and volunteering in the public health sector, she quickly decided Rochester was the place for her.

Seventy-five students have enrolled at the University of Rochester after completing this two-year program designed to develop and foster Africa’s future leaders, scientists, artists, and organizers.

Geology major Ben Crummins ’20, left, and physics major Frank Padgett III ’19 accompanied John Tarduno, professor and chair of earth and environmental sciences, to Labrador, Canada, this summer where the group conducted field work. The students sampled a rock known as anorthosite, which contains labradorite crystals. Labradorite crystals have the special property of refracting and reflecting light, which results in a unique iridescence.  (University of Rochester photo / John Tarduno)

The symposium includes several sessions and panels designed to build contemporary leadership skills with a global perspective.

I learned about the process, etiquette, and household names of ethnography in the classroom, and so I was ecstatic about the opportunity to test my know-how out in the field and conduct a study for myself.

The new offices will have an entrance off of Celebration Drive. After the move, which is scheduled for the fall semester, ISO Student Services will hold River Campus and Eastman School of Music office hours to maintain accessibility to students.

The most help I can do for the preservation and heritage of Elmina castle, Fort Amsterdam, and the other slave castles along of the coast of Ghana is to teach others how they can study and care for the castle tomorrow.

In this new leadership role with the Office for Global Engagement, Cary Jensen will provide broader support to the University’s international populations amid the current shifting national policies affecting them.

In a break from their work on the forts of the Ghanaian coast, mechanical engineering major Seungju Yeo ’20 learns more about the culture and language of the Ashanti region of modern-day Ghana.

The goal of this entry isn’t to try and definitively answer these questions, but rather to discuss how I got my feet planted. The first step was to acknowledge that I am not here to be comfortable.