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Spring 07 Global Horizons Newsletter OIP Headlines
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"Above It All" by Tara Meyer |
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Upcoming Spring Semester 2007 Events:
- Study Abroad Information Sessions - NEW SCHEDULE
- March 19: Brown Bag Seminar - Antartica, SUB 106E, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
- April 18: Fulbright for Scholars, SUB 275, 2-3:30 p.m.
- April 23: Brown Bag Seminar - Trekking the Himalayas in 3D, SUB 276, Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Go Abroad for Lunch - OIP Brown Bag Seminar Series
OIP's Brown Bag lecture series highlights the international research, travels, and adventures of MSU faculty and students and Bozeman community members. Come join us for lunch this spring from 12-1pm for the following brown bag seminars:
Antartica
Monday, March 19, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, SUB 106E
Presented by Emma Fuller
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Croquet at -70 F |
Experience daily life at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, a science reserach base located in the middle of the highest, the driest, the windiest, the remotest, and the coldest of the seven continents. Emma Fuller has spent three "summers" living and working on "The Ice". The South Pole Station is an island community of two hundred people living free of television or radio, celebrating holidays, playing croquet outside, residing in tents, and sharing the daily experience of a place where -30F is considered a warm day. Great polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackelton said "[Antartica] It is the last great journey left to man." Almost a century later, this adventure continues. Scientists, as well as carpenters, heavy equipment operators, cooks, and snow shovellers make up South Pole workers or "Polies" who choose to live and work year after year in this most unforgiving and harshly beautiful place.
Trekking the Himalayas in 3D
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Majestic Nepalese landscape |
Monday, April 23, 12:00 to 1:00 pm, SUB 276
Presented by Dale L. Smith
This 28 day trek took place a number of years ago and went to the 1950 French camp I on Annapurna. It started in Pokara and joined the French route in the Kali Gandaki Gorge. The slide show starts in Kathmandu and ends up looking at the Sicle glacier on the north side of Annapurna showing the final route of the epic first climb of an 8,000 meter peak. Several stories from Herzog’s book about that expedition are included in the lively narration. Many slides in this show taken on Kodachrome film have won awards in international salons. Dale Smith recently moved to Bozeman from Rochester, NY where he worked for the Eastman Kodak Co.
For more information on this program, contact:
Janelle Rasmussen at (406) 994-7602 or jrasmussen@montana.edu
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Tribute to Alioune Beye
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Al Beye |
While hearts across Bozeman remain heavy over the untimely death of Al Beye, Bobcat basketball player from Senegal, the ceremony in his honor warmed those hearts just a bit with thoughtful words from a wide assortment of people and the chance to meet his extraordinary family. Al made a lasting impression when he arrived to check in at OIP with his soon-to-be-famous smile and his need to duck his head to fit through the doorway. Staff members collected articles from the paper about him and posted them on the hallway bulletin board. We enjoyed hearing of his generous contributions to the community as he encouraged school kids and gave a hand to anyone who needed help. He was a perfect example of what an outgoing, individual international student can do to build bridges across cultures, and we will always remember him as one of our greatest ambassadors.
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Fulbright Grants for Scholars:
Upcoming Visit and Presentation by a Senior Program Officer
The Fulbright for Scholars Program sponsored by the U.S. Government is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program has provided more than 265,000 participants with the opportunity to observe each others' political, economic and cultural institutions, exchange ideas and embark on joint ventures of importance.
Currently, the Program operates in over 150 countries worlwide. The Fulbright Program was established in 1946 under the legislation introduced by Senator William J. Fulbright of Arkansas.
To qualify for the Fulbright for Scholars, you must be a U.S. citizen and hold the highest degree in your field at time of grant. There are many different types of scholar grants available including traditional grants for lecturing and research, Distinguised Chairs Program, Senior Specialists Program and New Century Scholars Program, among others.
We are very fortunate to have Carol Robles, a Senior Program Officer for the Fulbright Scholar Program, visiting our campus in April to present a Fulbright Program for Scholars, please plan on attending this workshop.
When: Wednesday April 18, 2007 from 2-3:30
Where: SUB 275
Space is limited so please reserve a seat by e-mailing Sally O'Neill at sallyo@montana.edu or call her at 994-7688. Also, if you are interested in meeting with Carol individually, you can make an appointment through Sally.
You may go to the following website to learn more about the Fulbright Program: www.cies.org
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Global Climate Change and its Implications for Agriculture:
An International Undergraduate Research Seminar
Tell your students about this great opportunity: This fall students can participate in an interdisciplinary 3-credit course that:
- satisfies the undergraduate research requirement;
- allows students to study one of the most pressing issues facing the world: Global Climate Change;
- sets up collaborative research teams with University of Western Australia students with MSU and UWA faculty mentors
- offers a minimum of two $1000 travel scholarships for MSU students to go to Australia to meet their research partner and attend a culminating event.
For more information, students should contact the faculty member listed below who will be teaching the research topic that most interests them. Students can also propose research topics to one of the following faculty.
“Taking advantage of a changing environment”
Dr. Tom Blake, blake@montana.edu, 994-5055
“Climate change impacts on terrestrial water and carbon cycles”
Dr. Jon Wraith, jwraith@montana.edu, 994-4605
“Economic signals for and responses to global warming for farmers and ranchers”
Dr. Dave Buschena, buschena@montana.edu, 994-5623
“Climate change and adaptative crop and soil management; energy-efficiency cropping systems”
Dr. Perry Miller, pmiller@montana.edu, 994-5431
For more information, students, administrators, and faculty can also contact Yvonne Rudman in the Office of International Programs, 994-4032.
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Passports Required Under WHTI for U.S. and Canadian Air Travelers as of January 23, 2007
The Department of State and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) published a final rule to implement Phase One of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). The rule, effective January 23, 2007, requires valid passports of all U.S. citizens as well as all nonimmigrant aliens with citizenship in Canada, Bermuda, and Mexico, departing from or entering the United State from within the Western Hemisphere at air ports-of-entry. Prior to this, these individuals were exempt from the passport requirement. This rule does not change visa rules, only travel document requirements. A separate, future rulemaking will address land and sea travelers.
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Study Abroad Applications Are In!
After a hectic week of study abroad interviews and processing applications, the study abroad numbers are in. This year, 106 students have applied to study abroad this summer, fall, and academic year. We are a few students shy of the record breaking enrollment last year, but as the applications continue to trickle in this month, we may break the record again. This year in particular, we have seen a surge in interest for less-traditional locations. Some of our students are branching away from the traditional Western Europe locations and are choosing to study in Turkey, Argentina, Thailand, Estonia, Peru, South Africa, and Japan. The UK and France are the top two destinations for study abroad followed by New Zealand.
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International Students at MSU: Spring 07 Enrollment
Every single semester, all of us here at OIP, are eager to meet the new students coming from all over the world to our little town in Montana. It is always interesting to see how the numbers by country fluctuate depending on scholarship programs, special interests and exchange from other universities. This Spring semester shows a reduced number of countries: 69 total versus 71 in Fall, but an increase in attendance in the Saudi and Kazakh communities. We currently have 355 international students enrolled on campus. The largest community is from Saudi Arabia (40), followed by India (29), Canada (27), China (26), Japan (24) and Kazakhstan (21). A lot of countries are represented by just two students (12) or even one student (23). But whatever the number, we especially appreciate the diversity, creativity, dynamism that these students bring to our campus.
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Another Successful International Street Food Bazaar
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Mali won 1st prize for "Best Decorated Booth" |
Drumming at the Mali booth, coffee served by Saudi men in traditional thobe and headdress, and Chinese stick games taught by women in bright silk dresses are some of the vivid impressions that added to the cultural mix at the 26th annual Bazaar. Tropical drinks, chicken satay, curries, and other tempting dishes were largely sold out in the first two hours of the event, in spite of the many hours that students and scholars spent in the kitchen. Entertainment highlights included a Malaysian fusion dance, Turkish classical guitar, and a mix of song, dance and skits by the Indian Student Association. View photos from the Bazaar at: http://www.montana.edu/international/isss/food_bazaar.htm and if you missed this year’s event, you can look forward to next year’s Bazaar on Saturday afternoon, February 23, 2008 . It’s guaranteed to be the most exciting event in Bozeman that day.
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New Summer Program in Costa Rica
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Summer program in Costa Rica
Photo by Sarah Hanen-Bauer
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We are pleased to introduce a NEW six-week summer program in Costa Rica, a place where cloud forests, beaches, rivers and volcanoes provide a stunning backdrop to an experience OIP has developed in partnership MSU’s Department of Modern Languages and Universidad Veritas in San Jose. This exciting new program allows students to take all levels of Spanish (101, 102, 219, 220, medical Spanish) as well as one of four other courses: Environmental Issues, Costa Rican History and Culture, Latin American Film, or a Health Care course that compares Costa Rican and American health care systems. The program is designed so that participants select those courses that best fit with their interests and major. All of the courses include practical, hands-on experiential learning components. Most exciting: All participants will live with a local family during the program, providing them with the opportunity to really get to know Costa Rica’s amazing diversity of landscape, people, and culture.
http://www.montana.edu/international/studyabroad/summer_programs/costa_rica.htm
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OIP to Host Middle Eastern Student Leadership Program
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Last year's group members in Washington DC |
Beginning in July, OIP will again welcome 22 undergraduate students from the Middle East and North Africa to campus for a training program. Funded by the State Department’s Middle East Partnership Initiative office, the program will focus on leadership, community service, and American culture and values. As in 2005 and 2006, OIP and the Department of English will partner to host the program. The students will spend a total of four weeks in Bozeman, attending lectures on campus, doing community service, and going on educational and recreational outings. These experiences will include a trip to Helena to meet with Governor Schweitzer, a tour of Yellowstone National Park, and house building with Habitat for Humanity. The institute will conclude with a two-week travel learning tour. The first stage of the learning tour will be a bus trip from Bozeman to Santa Fe, NM, with stops in Salt Lake City, Moab, UT, and Mesa Verde National Park. From New Mexico, the group and staff escorts will fly to New York City. The students will complete their time in the United States with a visit to Washington, DC.
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Study Abroad Opportunities through Montana State University
Go Somewhere! Discov
Did you know that MSU offers over 235 study abroad programs in more than 50 countries? These programs are an excellent way for students to complement their undergraduate studies, gain vital intercultural and language skills, become better global citizens, travel, and develop lifelong friendships. Many programs are direct exchanges, allowing students to pay MSU tuition. Financial aid applies to MSU-approved programs. Students are able to earn academic major or CORE credit. Study abroad allows students to learn a foreign language, perfect existing language skills, or take courses abroad in English. There are also many scholarships available to support student study abroad.
How can MSU Faculty and Staff support study abroad?
- Invite OIP Staff into your classroom! To schedule a short classroom presentation on study abroad through MSU, call 7151, or email hilaryp@montana.edu.
- Share your experiences abroad with students, how it has affected your life and career
- Make the study abroad information session schedule available to your students.
Spring 2007 Information Session Schedule:
Study abroad information sessions are the first step in the study abroad application process. They address the kinds of study abroad programs MSU offers, how to apply, finances of studying abroad, scholarships, and an introduction to the international programs resource room. (All sessions are held in the International Programs Conference Room, 4th Floor of Culbertson Hall and are about 30 minutes long.)
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Fall 2006 Study Abroad Fair |
Thursday, March 22 at 10:00 am
Tuesday, March 27 at 2:30 pm
Thursday, April 5 at 10:00 am
Wednesday, April 11 at 3:30 pm
Monday, April 16 at 3:00 pm
Wednesday, April 25 at 2:00 pm
Study Abroad Scholarships
Do you know someone who needs study abroad funding? There are many study abroad scholarships available to students and Faculty. Some are listed below.
The Gilman Scholarship also provides unique funding opportunities for study abroad. The program is open to U.S. citizens who are currently undergraduate students in good standing, and are federal Pell grant recipients. Preference is given to non-traditional students and students who have not studied abroad before. The average award for the program is $4,000. Former Gilman scholars have gone to Ghana, Japan, South Africa, and other study abroad sites. This year, the OIP has sent three Gilman scholars: one in Malta and two in Spain. Further information is available in the reference room at the Office of International Programs or by calling Hilary at 994-7151. Also online at www.iie.org/programs/gilman/index.html.
Deadline for the fall and academic year is April 15th.
The Freeman Scholarship provides funding for students who plan to study in Asia. The awards range from $3,000 - $7,000 and students must propose and present a creative and informative service project to share their experiences abroad. For more information contact Hilary at 994-7151 or visit the Resource Room in OIP. Online www.iie.org/programs/freeman-asia.
Deadline for the fall and academic year is April 4th.
The Bridging Scholarship awards $2500 for a semester and $4,000 for a year of study in Japan. For more information about the scholarship, please contact Hilary at 994-7151 or visit the website at www.colorado.edu/ealc/atj/Bridging/scholarships.html
Deadline for the fall and academic year is April 5th.
Fulbright Information Session
The deadline for the 2007-2008 student Fulbright competition is on October 1, 2007. Students interested in applying for the Fulbright next fall, should start planning their research projects during the spring and summer. The Office of International Programs is holding an information session for students interested in applying for a Fulbright on March 21st from 12-1 in the Conference Room of OIP.
For more information on the 2008-2009 competition, applicants may contact Sally O'Neill at 994-7688 or sallyo@montana.edu. More information is also available at www.fulbrightonline.org.
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Fall 06 Global Horizons Newsletter
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