Last week, Vice Provost for Global Affairs Ambassador Steve Mull and Dean of Students Julie Caruccio sent a message to Russian students.

This message is going out to students whom our records indicate are from Russia.

Last week, Vice Provost for Global Affairs Ambassador Steve Mull and Dean of Students Julie Caruccio sent a message to Ukrainian students.

This message is going out to students whom our records indicate are from Ukraine.

A new fellowship launched by International Students and Scholars Program and Contemplative Sciences Center hopes to encourage and enable...

Benjamin Hill is a fourth-year student studying Global Development Studies and Religious Studies. Outside of his studies, the Filipino-American born and raised in Northern Virginia loves reading, comics, growing plants, and singing. The 2021 Center for Global Health Equity Scholar says to keep an open mind and take advantage of the opportunities at UVA.

Benjamin Hill is a fourth-year student studying Global Development Studies and Religious Studies. Outside of his studies, the Filipino-American born and raised in Northern Virginia loves reading, comics, growing plants, and singing. The 2021 Center for Global Health Equity Scholar says to keep an open mind and take advantage of the opportunities at UVA.

Schools, centers and faculty at the University of Virginia are arranging a variety of educational opportunities for students, faculty, staff and members of the broader community seeking to better understand the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

The Carter G. Woodson Institute offers pre and post doctoral fellowships for scholars of African & African-American Studies

CGII offers a grant to graduate students engaged in global research.

The Department of Classics offers a Travelling Fellowship and has links to several international programs outside of UVA.

Speaking at the University of Virginia on Wednesday, former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said democracy is very fragile and must be nourished just like the friendship between Australia and the United States.

“We have a lot to learn from the Turnbulls’ leadership in Australia,” Ryan said. “While serving as prime minister of Australia and Lord Mayor of Sydney, they each promoted a vision of inclusiveness and justice for all. At the same time, they pushed for smart industrial and trade policy, environmental sustainability, and human rights.”

The East Asian Studies study abroad page contains information about programs in Chinese Language Studies and Japanese Studies, including UVA-in-Shanghai, as well as links to language study programs in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Tibetan.

A new study by Lucy Bassett, Tashmina Rahman find that teachers and headteachers have a conventional perspective, often viewing Primary Pre Education predominantly as a place to provide basic education to children rather than an opportunity for holistic development in the early years. About half of the teachers and headteachers responded that the focus in PPE is largely on academic learning. This mindset diverges from the literatures that show that young children learn best when they pursue their own interests, interact with their peers and surroundings, and engage in playful learning. 

The European Studies M.A. program has existing exchanges with schools in France, Sweden, Germany, and Northern Ireland and provides the option to arrange exchanges with other European sites.

The German department offers aJ-term study abroad program in Berlin and an International Summer Program in Dortmund.

Five UVA students received Gilman Scholarships this year which provides funding for overseas research. One student received the Gilman-McCain Scholarship. 

The government of Haiti has collapsed, armed gangs have de facto control of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and foreigners are being evacuated as the country continues its slide into chaos. Robert Fatton Jr., the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, is Haitian-born, and he frequently visits the country where his siblings and extended family reside. UVA Today sought perspective from Fatton on the country’s current predicament, calling upon his personal and political knowledge of Haiti’s disordered circumstances. 

Vice Provost Steve Mull talks about current accommodations for international students, upcoming challenges and plans for resuming other forms of international study when it is safe to do so.

Nearly half the world’s population will vote in major elections this year, casting ballots in at least 70 countries for every level of government, from localities to national parliaments and presidential offices. But not all elections are created equal, or fair.

The Spanish, Italian & Portuguese department offers information on study abroad opportunities in Italy.

If a spoken language has few who can understand it, does useful cultural knowledge get lost?

As a scholar of Papua New Guinea’s endangered Arapesh languages, University of Virginia anthropology and linguistics professor Lise Dobrin can say with certainty, “yes.” 

She is interested in helping to document some of the know-how about the natural environment there.

A University of Virginia engineering professor says relatively poor construction techniques and unpreparedness appear to be playing a role in the loss of life from a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in Morocco on Friday.

Mithra Dhinakaran, of Fairfax, who graduated from the University of Virginia in May, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar, allowing her to study in China. The Schwarzman Scholars, a graduate fellowship program, has 150 participants from 43 countries who will participate in a one-year, fully funded master’s degree program in global affairs at Schwarzman College, part of Tsinghua University in Beijing. 

UVA Today covers updates and student impressions on the Game Change tour.

UVA Today covers updates and student impressions on the Game Change tour.