Global Affairs
Seven UConn Students Earn Prestigious Gilman Scholarships
The program encourages travel to diverse locations, along with intensive language study and internship experiences
Conflict and Commerce: A Journey to Support Founders in Ukraine
'In newly liberated cities, the business returns within days. The cities recover their shops, their supply chains, and people return to work'
Big Changes for Big Business as EU Human Rights Law Nears Enactment
If it works as intended, the EU law could be transformative in protecting human rights, including worker health and safety and workers’ free speech, around the world
UConn Health Professor Victoria Forbes Nominated for International Teaching Award
The Teaching Excellence award offers early to mid-career faculty a valuable opportunity to develop new collaborations, to work internationally, and to share their pedagogical expertise with others.
UConn Researchers Join NASA-Funded International Biodiversity Monitoring Project
The BioSCape project is NASA’s first-ever biodiversity field program combining airborne spectroscopy, LIDAR, and field observations across South Africa's Greater Cape Floristic Region, home to two global biodiversity hotspots rich with flora and marine species found nowhere else on Earth
11 UConn Students Named Gilman Scholars
Gilman Scholars are required to complete a service project upon their return from studying abroad in their campus or home community, with the goal of sharing the value of participation in study abroad and promoting the scholarship to prospective students.
New CHHD, Global Affairs Program Offers Graduate Students Virtual Study Exchange
The virtual study abroad experience removes the financial and travel burdens of traditional study abroad programs
Northeast Human Rights Film Festival to Showcase Documentaries, Rally Audiences to Action
The inaugural film festival aims to connect filmmakers, human rights advocates, and community groups with the common goal of sustained, transformational impact
UConn Student Working to ‘Amplify’ Educational Opportunities in Kenya
'One of the key things that I've really learned is to love the problem. Be in love with a problem. Because that's the only way you can understand the solution'
Ten Named To Fulbright US Student Program For 2023-24
The program provides grants for individually designed study and research projects or for English teaching assistantships around the world