1. Reclaiming Jordan's Cultural Heritage One Stone at a Time

   “I was thrilled about the way the entire work force came together as a team.”

2. Se-won’s MOOC & OER Journey

   Se-won Ahn of South Korea is one of many students around the world taking advantage of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) and Open Education Resources (OER). MOOCs and OERs allow students to take online classes and use resources created by reputable universities around the world for free.

3. Part of the Family

   Binazir and her host family are very active in the community. Binazir has been described as a "volunteering fanatic."

4. The Challenges That Make Life Fun

   Anna Voronina travels to North Carolina and gets to fulfill a life-long dream.

5. Creating Change for the Disabled

   Yerasyl Toleugazimov, a citizen of Kazakhstan, spent his junior year of high school in Lacey and summarized his experience saying, "I learned new things that changed me."

6. My Extended Minnesota Family

   Fahmida Zaman sometimes missed her family in Bangladesh during her Global Undergraduate Exchange Program experience. She spent the better part of 2012 at St. Catherine University in Minnesota, well removed from her home. But, she is thankful for the connections she made with professors, her “friendship family,” American and international students, and one very memorable meeting with another Bangladeshi.

7. Sharing Our Stories Through Dance

   After more than a decade of war ravaged the village of Freetown in Sierra Leone, the infrastructure remains in ruins and the people now live with the physical and emotional scars of a country taken by violence.

8. Arabic Program Expands Dental Career Dream

   Shadowing a Moroccan dentist showed me that so many more people in the world need dental help.

9. From the West Bank to the United States: An Unexpected Path to an MBA

   After completing her bachelor’s degree in medical lab sciences at the American University of Beirut, Sanioura worked in marketing for a medical firm while she applied for graduate programs and fellowships. It was during this time that she first fell in love with business.

10. Using Music and Conversation to Reach Students on the Black Sea

    David, an English Language Fellow at the National Technical University in Sevastopol, Ukraine teaches English to international students, helping them to “be critical, creative, and compassionate global citizens.”

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