By: Penn Abroad Angela in India as a GRIP Intern – Summer 2018 International Relations major, Angela Yang ’21, has been awarded a David L. Boren Scholarship to support her upcoming semester abroad in Thailand. Boren Scholarships, an initiative of the National Security Education Program, provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate students to study less commonly taught…
By: Penn Abroad CASA Historical Memory Fellows, Daniel Leva (left) and Grace Seeley (right) Two Penn students have been selected as CASA Historical Memory Fellows for the Spring 2019 semester. This research opportunity takes place over the course of the semester and students from across the Consortium for Advanced Studies Abroad (CASA) programs participate. This semester, there…
By: Penn Abroad Skyline of Xinyi District in downtown Taipei, Taiwan Penn undergraduate students are now able to spend the semester or year abroad in these newly approved and expanded offerings: CIEE Taipei, Taiwan: Communications, Business + Political Economy Learn Mandarin in Taipei, Taiwan, a unique setting outside out China, and take courses in English or Chinese at…
By: Penn Abroad Penn Global Seminars (PGS) are semester-long courses taught on campus that include an embedded travel component. Through PGS, Penn undergraduate students are able to take full advantage of essential global learning opportunities regardless of their class year or major. The robust course offerings for the 2019-2020 academic year have been developed through…
By: Penn Abroad Spring 2019 Gilman Recipients Gabriel Gonzalez (left) and Nicole Posadas (right) Penn Abroad is pleased to announce that two Penn students have been selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern abroad during the spring of 2019. They were selected among 844 American undergraduate students from 335 colleges and…
By: Penn Abroad Exchange Students at Citizens Bank Park We kicked off Fall 2018 by welcoming 130 exchange students from nearly 60 exchange partners during our two-day orientation at the end of August in College Hall. Though our largest number of students come from Australia and Spain, students hailing from Macau, Latvia, and the Czech…
By: Jill DiSanto, Penn Today Recent Penn graduate, Joshua Jordan will be traveling to India this fall after being awarded a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant grant. Read about how his experience interning in India through the Global Internship Program has influenced his plans and goals post-graduation. Read the Story on Penn Today slot gacor slot gacor…
By: Penn Abroad Penn alumna, Roopa Gogineni, was part of the making of Inspire Somalia, a reality show funded by the U.N. She helps to tell the story in this recent episode of the Invisibilia Podcast. Through Penn Abroad, she traveled to Kenya to complete an internship in 2009. Roopa recently shared a little with…
By: Penn Abroad At the close of the semester, students participating in the Global Internship Program (GIP) have already started to make their way abroad and begin their summer internships. The 165 Penn students participating in the program will complete internships and conduct research for a period of eight to twelve weeks across more than…
By: Penn Abroad Building on the successful pilot and continuation of Penn Global Seminars (PGS) under the leadership of Penn Global, Penn Abroad is pleased to announce the program’s continued growth in the coming academic year. Leading the way for new models of global learning, Penn Global Seminars combine intensive semester-long study with a short-term…