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In an effort to increase opportunity and access to global learning as outlined in our Strategic Plan for Internationalization, UC Santa Cruz is participating in an online virtual course exchange (VSE) through our membership in the Association of Pacific-Rim Universities (APRU). Launched in fall 2021, this program provides UCSC students with the opportunity to enroll…

Global Engagement sat down with Jessie Dubreuil, Associate Director for Learning at the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL), to talk about her new role with the Global Classrooms initiative, and the unique opportunity that it presents to faculty at UCSC. The interview has been lightly edited for…

A postdoc scholar at UCSC’s Institute of Marine Sciences, Tommy Clay is a marine ecologist based at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Southwest Fisheries Science Center in Monterey who is primarily interested in marine predator species like whales, dolphins, and seabirds. In particular, he studies their movements, feeding…

After a year filled with uncertainty and a pause in student mobility, Global Seminars are back to reignite the spirit of global learning for students at UC Santa Cruz. Global Learning, within the Division of Global Engagement, has grown its program portfolio substantially over the past year, partnering with our faculty members…

The Global Mentorship Program offered to new international students through Global Programming, part of the Division of Global Engagement, has expanded this year to provide needed services to 172 international student mentees. A team made up of thirteen Global Mentors and two Global Captains trained remotely during the summer and…

Nerea Lezama-Ochoa is a marine biologist from the Basque Country (Spain), working as a UCSC postdoc at the Environmental Research Division (ERD), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Monterey. Her team is producing daily projections from 1980-2100 for 10 highly migratory species (leatherback turtle, blue shark, common thresher shark,…

During summer 2021, 19 international undergraduate students participated as virtual interns in the pilot of the International Summer Research Program (ISRP), conducted in collaboration with the Baskin School of Engineering. Students from four universities: Amrita University and IIT Kanpur in India, KAIST in Korea, and Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia…

During the week of October 18-22, Global Learning hosted its second annual Global Learning Opportunities Week (GLOW). Several hundred students, staff, faculty, and affiliates attended or led seminars designed to introduce the wide array of global opportunities available to students at UC Santa Cruz. “Talking to students while promoting GLOW…

Gabi Schmiegel, Assistant Director for Sponsored Student Programs, is actively recruiting students and promoting UC Santa Cruz as an ideal destination for graduate and undergraduate students.  UC Santa Cruz, along with UC Berkeley and UC Davis, was part of two pre-arrival orientations organized by EducationUSA for students from the Middle…

The Division of Global Engagement is proud to announce that 22 UC Santa Cruz students have received a combined total of more than $75,000 in scholarship funding for study abroad or away programs. The average amount awarded per student was $2,000. These students, most of whom intend to study abroad or…

As part of the new International Summer Research Program (ISRP), which is being piloted by the Division of Global Engagement (GE), in collaboration with BSOE, UC Santa Cruz engineering faculty will host students virtually from several international partner universities in research internships in summer of 2021. “We have long aspired to establish…