Global Affairs

UConn student Alana Russell '13 (CANR) visits with a black rhino calf, the first resident of the world's first dedicated, non-commercial baby rhino orphanage. Russell spent the summer of 2012 at the orphanage in South Africa serving as one of the calf's caretakers.

UConn Student Plays Hands-on Role at Rhino Sanctuary, Part 2

Senior Alana Russell spent up to 12 hours a day during the summer taking care of an orphaned rhino at a newly established sanctuary in South Africa.

Rhino sanctuary.

UConn Student Plays Hands-on Role at Rhino Sanctuary, Part 1

A wildlife ecology class brought natural resources major Alana Russell face to face with conservation issues and led to an unexpected opportunity.

Gloria Medina '13 (CANR) handles a python at Entabeni Game Reserve in South Africa, where UConn students traveled in the summer of 2012 as part of a three-week African field ecology course taught by Associate Professor Morty Ortega. (Stefanie Dion Jones/UConn Photo)

Hands-On UConn Course Takes Students on African Journey

Spending up to 15 hours a day immersed in such activities as game drives, venomous snake handling, animal tracking, and astronomy, UConn students find a learning environment that's engaging and free of distraction.

Rigoberta Menchú Tum speaks with students at El Instituto in the Ryan Building on Sept. 11, 2012. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)

Students Meet With Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum

UConn students had an opportunity for discussion with the Guatemalan human rights activist during her visit to campus.

The courtyard of the Freedom Theatre, a theater and cultural center in the Jenin Refugee Camp in the northern part of the West Bank. (Photo supplied by Gary English)

UConn Professor Studies Middle East Conflict Through Refugee Camp Theater Group

Dramatic arts professor Gary English is spending a year working with the Freedom Theatre in a Palestinian refugee camp.

Photo of Rigoberta Menchú Tum, the first Indigenous woman and the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú to Give UNESCO Human Rights Lecture

Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum will speak at the Student Union Theatre on Sept. 11, at 4 p.m.

Zhongxue Gan '€™92 MS, '€™95 Ph.D. shows guests from Masdar City, Abu Dhabi around the ENN Eco-city.

Engineering Alum Leading Multinational Clean Energy Efforts

Zhongxue Gan '95 Ph.D. is chief scientist for one of China’s largest renewable energy companies.

Justina Leung '09 (CANR) with schoolchildren in South Africa, during a Study Abroad program.

Preparing to Succeed in a Global Society

UConn students have a wide range of opportunities to develop skills as global citizens.

Bosnian Serb people holding Serbian flags and photos of former Gen. Ratko Mladic during a protest in Kalinovik, Bosnia, hometown of the Bosnian Serb wartime military leader, 70 kms southeast of Sarajevo, Sunday, May 29, 2011. Approximately 3,000 Bosnian Serbs, gathered to show support and anger after the arrest of Mladic. Protestors carried banners and flags and sang songs in his support, he was arrested after 16 years in hiding from the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague. Mladic is to face trial on 15 accounts of war crimes including genocide in Srebrenica in 1995. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)

Exploring Human Rights From the Hague

An alumna gets a firsthand look at international justice.

Gujarat India

UConn’s Fulbright Scholars Reach Out Across the World

Scores of University of Connecticut educators have followed their academic curiosity around the world to teach and conduct research under the renowned Fulbright Scholar Program.