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Introducing Our 2024-2025 Study Abroad Ambassadors!

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…

Fulbright Spotlight: Anna Marti (’22), English Teaching Assistant in Greece

Blog post by Eli Siegel-Bernstein (‘25), Fellowships Assistant 2023 The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State to expand the perspectives of recent graduates, graduate students, and young professionals through cross-cultural dialogue. Fulbright recipients travel to 140 partner countries each year to conduct research, teach English, or pursue graduate studies.…

Yeia sas everyone! Welcome to Elementary Modern Greek class!

Elementary Modern Greek is taught by Hrissi Haldezos, who is an alumna of Wesleyan, where she currently works as an administrator in student accounts. She has always loved languages, and was a Classical Studies major at Wesleyan where she studied Ancient Greek. She regularly visits her extended family in Greece, with the exception of the…

Four Wesleyan seniors receive campus nomination for the Watson Fellowship

Written by Genesis Garcia ’22 Image (left to right): Fitzroy ‘Pablo’ Wickham, Indigo Pellegrini de Paur, Grace Lopez, and Will Briskin The Thomas J. Watson Fellowship is one of the many prestigious fellowships that Wesleyan students can apply to. National fellowships are completely funded programs that support independent study, exploration, research, or teaching for about…

Welcome to Wesleyan’s Global Community!

This has been a year of growth and change across all areas “global” at Wesleyan. After several years of modest declines, participation in study abroad went up significantly, enrollments in language classes ticked up, and the volume of international students continued to rise. We saw notable successes by our students applying for fellowships, including the…