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Oregon State University strives to prepare graduates for a world that is internationally diverse and globally interconnected, to provide welcoming communities on our campuses for students and employees from around the world, to engage with distinguished international partners in pursuit of our teaching and research goals, and to contribute new knowledge and solutions that help address challenges of global consequence. These priorities are advanced by the Office of the Provost and articulated in the university’s latest International Action Plan, which aligns with OSU’s current strategic plan, Prosperity Widely Shared.
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Global News
The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities has named Oregon State University Professor Aaron Wolf the 2023 recipient of the Michael P. Malone International Leadership Award. The award provides national recognition for a career of outstanding contributions to further international education at state and land-grant institutions. Wolf’s “more than 30 years of work to advance the frontiers of knowledge and help prevent or resolve conflicts over water resources around the globe exemplifies high-impact international scholarship, leadership and engagement,” APLU President Mike…
LeAnn Adam, the director of National and Global Scholarships Advising, secured funding from both the Institute of International Education Passport Project, and an OSU Internationalization Grant, to be able to offer 50 first-year students in the College of Ag Science and the College of Forestry a passport for free. “Studying abroad, until this point and this offer, seemed a distant dream I’d have to continue to put off time and time again,” said Féithleann Schmidt, an Ecampus fourth-year majoring in botany. “Now, it’s becoming a reality.”
Pavan Akula, assistant professor of civil engineering in the OSU College of Engineering, teams up with universities in India and US industry partners on a project to explore carbon dioxide capture and sequester in 3D-printed building materials, funded by the US Dept. of Energy.
OSU has nine faculty on the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program this academic year, earning the distinction of being a “Top Producer.” Of doctoral institutions, only two universities in the US sent more than 9, and two other universities also produced nine, putting OSU in the top 5 nationally. Learn more on our Fulbright U.S. Scholar program website.
After 20 years of painstaking restoration, archaeologists have begun to reassemble the wreck of a 15th century ship found in a south Wales riverbank. "There are archaeological ships on display around the world but nothing from the period of the 15th Century so this is what makes this so significant and special,” said the project curator and OSU alumnus, Toby Jones.
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