by Julia Gardner Interested in studying abroad, but not able to fit a full semester into your schedule? Many program providers also offer winter and summer study abroad experiences, and you can even transfer credits earned back to Wesleyan! Many winter abroad programs have deadlines throughout October or at the beginning of November. Some of…
by Oleksandra Volakova Complex questions of unsustainability, climate change, and environmental degradation, combined with people’s creativity, can bring unexpected results. Art offers novice perspectives and solutions to those questions. This semester, students visiting the Smith Reading Room in the Olin Library can visit a powerful and thought-provoking exhibition created by Bright Ugochukwu Eke, a Master…
by Julia Gardner Wondering what your fellow Wes students are up to all around the world? Curious about what a day in the life studying abroad looks like? Our Fall 2024 Global Correspondents are here to take us along for the ride! Global Correspondents are students who are abroad this semester and will be sharing…
by Erica Kowsz, Associate Director for Fellowships After a whirlwind application season, 42 Wesleyan seniors and alumni have submitted applications for the Fulbright US Student Program. This program allows US citizens who have graduated with at least a bachelors degree to travel to one of 140+ host countries, where they will live and work alongside…
by Julia Gardner The Office of Study Abroad is excited to introduce our Study Abroad Ambassadors for the 2024-2025 academic year! Study Abroad Ambassadors are students who have recently returned from programs abroad and are now eager to share their experiences and help you navigate the study abroad process. Whether you’re wondering about specific aspects…
by Adriana Alfaro Liendo My name is Adriana Alfaro, and I am the new Global Engagement/Intercultural Learning Student Assistant, working with Anita Deeg-Carlin in the Office for Intercultural Learning. As a junior double majoring in Government and Theater with a minor in Global Engagement, I was attracted by how the Fries Center will help me…
by Oleksandra Volakova World Expo, also known as a World’s Fair, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase countries’ progress in various fields: art, science, environment, health, etc, through presentations, workshops, and conversations. All the innovations are united with one theme that addresses a challenge through collaboration. The Expo has been promoting innovations and…
by Adriana Alfaro Liendo Interested in learning more about current issues in Chinese Politics? The New University in Exile Consortium is offering a free 10-week online seminar held in Chinese that will offer a series of timely debates in Chinese and aimed at a global Chinese audience, focusing on the most important and controversial issues that involve…
August 19, 1947 – May 29, 2024 Alice Berliner Hadler arrived at Wesleyan in 1995, where she spent the following 25 years collaborating and cultivating international, multicultural, and transnational communities on Wesleyan’s campus and beyond. As a professor of English, she inspired clear written expression of ideas, and celebrated stories and their tellers across geographies…
by Oleksandra Volakova Striving to be a multicultural community, Wesleyan, in collaboration with the Fries Center for Global Studies, offers a classes taught in a language other than English in a variety of disciplines. The topics are focused on various aspects, from environment to history and literature, and the list of courses offered changes every…
As we bid a grateful farewell to Dr. Steve Angle, the esteemed director of the Fries Center for Global Studies, we also extend a warm welcome to Dr. Masami Imai, who will be stepping into this pivotal role. This moment of transition provides an opportunity to reflect on Dr. Angle’s remarkable contributions and to look…
by Diana Zhumalieva During the 2023-2024 academic year, four Wesleyan students were nominated for the were nominated for the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship, which supports college sophomores and juniors planning research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering. Before the results were in, in Spring 2024, Diana Zhumalieva ‘24, Fellowships Assistant, talked with Adin…
The Fries Center team was busy at the end of the last academic year creating and refining tools that the campus can use going forward. Decentering Europe. As a complement to our listing of units with a regional or area-studies approach, we have added a list of academic units that have taken steps to decenter the…
by Anita Deeg-Carlin, Director of Intercultural Learning Iracambí, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, is a rainforest research center that is becoming steadily more familiar to our community as Wes students spend their summers interning there. Minas Gerais literally translates to “General Mines” and is an area historically known and mined for its mineral wealth.…
by Serena Plage Students in Prof. Nadja Aksamija’s seminar Eloquent Forms: Topics in Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture went on a 12-day, faculty-led study trip to Rome and Florence over spring break (March 9-21, 2024). Some of the highlights in Rome included the Capitoline Museums and the Roman Forum, St. Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Museums, the Villa Borghese, and…
This past year (2023-24), the Wesleyan community was enriched by the presence of our first-ever Fulbright Scholar-In-Residence (S-I-R), Dr. Pawan Sharma from Kurukshetra University in India. The S-I-R program aims to promote campus internationalization by bringing scholar-teachers to campus for either a semester or a whole academic year; as Fulbright explains on its website, “S-I-Rs…
