Student Spotlights

Education Abroad Celebrates Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Education Abroad is celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and featuring some of our amazing study abroad participants and alumni! Our first article celebrated Ellie McCutchen, a UNC Charlotte Levine Scholar and Critical Language Scholar Recipient. Ellie will be studying Chinese in an immersive language program this summer in Taiwan. Education Abroad is […]

Checking in with UNC Charlotte Exchange Students in Japan

Article by Dr. Yongling Gorke ホット チョコレートとアメリカーノ コーヒーを ください。ここで飲みます. (One hot chocolate and one Americano please. For here). Joshua Obregon ordered drinks in Japanese at the Blue Bottle Coffee in Ginza, Tokyo, where he met with one of his fellow exchange students from UNC Charlotte, Beau Pray, and Dr. Yongling Gorke, assistant director for international […]

Study Abroad Alumna Named Dartmouth Post-Doc Fellow in Afro-Latinx Studies

“I never knew study abroad was an option,” Vanessa Castañeda, Ph.D., told me. As a daughter of immigrant parents and the first person in her family to go to a four-year university, Vanessa had not heard that study abroad was a possibility at UNC Charlotte. At least, that was the case until she stumbled upon […]

Six Niners Advance as Fulbright U.S. Student Program Semi-Finalists

The Office of International Programs is pleased to announce that six UNC Charlotte students and alumni have been selected as semi-finalists in the 2021-2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grant competition. These six Niners represent 75 percent of UNC Charlotte’s Fulbright U.S. Student Program applicant pool this year, which the Program posits as the most competitive […]

Study Abroad Alumna Named Finalist for Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

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