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*** Chloe Holter (H’27) is a first-year student studying human science in the School of Health. She was joined by her dad, Corey Holter (SFS’91), an alumnus who graduated from the School of Foreign Service in 1991. They traveled to Georgetown from Michigan. Chloe: My dad went to Georgetown for undergrad. We did a tour [during] spring break of my junior year, and I just loved it. I immediately fell in love with the campus and the area. Interviewer: Was Georgetown something your dad talked about when you were little? Chloe: Oh yeah. He watches the basketball games still. He…
With the proliferation of remote work comes the likelihood of working with colleagues in different time zones. This was a possibility even before many people started working from home—for example, between a home office in New York, New York, and a satellite office in Los Angeles, California. But today, for many fully distributed teams and companies that have employees based in a hodgepodge of places worldwide, working across multiple time zones has become a daily reality. Businesses likely have even more schedules to juggle, with some workers awake and logging in for the day while others are just signing off.…
Anita Anongdeth worked as intern with Kidlinks Small Farm Incubator in East London, South Africa, this summer. Submitted photo As a part of UW–Madison’s expansive International Academic Programs (IAP), Badger students traveled across the world over the 2023 summer term to learn, intern and develop their professional skills. IAP offers experiences worldwide for UW–Madison students from all majors and academic levels in 67 countries. Through the IAP website, Wisconsin students can explore opportunities to study and intern abroad, matching experiences to their areas of interest. Meet two UW–Madison students who took part in incredible summer experiences with the support of…
Bengaluru: Karnataka Housing and Minorities Welfare Minister Zameer Ahmed Khan has said that the government is thinking to increase the loan amount given to meritorious minority students from three lakh to five lakh rupees. Speaking after launching the schemes for the year 2023-24 formulated by the Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation (KMDC) on Tuesday, Zameer Ahmed Khan said, “At present, the KMDC was giving a loan of Rs 3 lakh to those students who have taken the MBBS admission under the government quota, and that amount may be increased to Rs 5 lakh. This would help the economically weaker students to…
Photo Submitted Mark R. Killenbeck at the Supreme Court. When Mark R. Killenbeck retired at the end of July, he moved a portion of his research library home: 72 boxes of books that accumulated over a 35-year career teaching at the U of A School of Law. He donated the rest of his collection to the School of Law. “I know that I am jousting against the wind in this digital age,” he admitted. “But there is no substitute for carefully reading and learning from a good book, printed and bound and held in your…
While many teams across the country began returning to campus last week, the Centre College’s men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams kicked off their 2023-2024 season with a training trip in Italy. The 11-day trip featured stops in Rome, the Vatican City, Naples, Pompeii, and the towns along the Amalfi Coast. Along the way, the team had the opportunity to train in different short course and long course facilities, as well participate in walking tours and sightseeing. Allison Carr, a senior and women’s team captain, told SwimSwam, “I think the trip really set the team up well for the…
The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University will be the first schools in Minnesota to be featured in a Season 10 episode of Amazon Prime’s The College Tour. The hit show is looking for students to submit audition videos from across campus for consideration to be part of a segment on the show. Auditioning is easy! Simply upload a short video (no longer than two minutes) introducing yourself and what topics you think make CSB and SJU great. We are casting a wide net for students to feature but are looking for fun and engaging stories about students…
The world is more accessible today than ever, but there is still a limit to how much a location can be experienced through a computer, cell phone or virtual reality. Study abroad trips can offer a transformational experience for students by immersing them in a new environment and exposing them to a completely different perspective. Gaining that experiential learning is invaluable and can offer new ways of looking at old problems, said Denise Kornegay and Alyssa Ruffa, who are leading a study abroad trip to Scotland to study rural health care next year. Kornegay, executive director of the Medical College…
When considering the challenges faced by students aspiring to study abroad, the first things that come to mind are academic challenges. One might suggest financial challenges, or the difficulties in acclimatising to harsh alien conditions outside of their home environment. Recently, many Bangladeshi students are choosing to complete their higher education abroad. Countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada have always been popular destinations for Bangladeshi students. However, nowadays, students are looking into other places, like Japan, Hong Kong and Malaysia, in their search for quality education at an affordable cost. Universities in the aforementioned countries…
Thalapathy’s daughter danced madly..!? Vijay in shock..!A video of actor Vijay’s daughter divya Sasha dancing at a wedding function has surfaced on the internet and is going viral. Vijay is a leading actor in the tamil film industry. Vijay, who is a favorite actor of all age groups from children to adults, has now finished acting in the film Leo. Directed by lokesh kanagaraj, the film is slated to hit the screens in October. The preliminary work for Thalapathy 68, which is being made under the direction of venkat prabhu after Leo, is also going on briskly. When one thinks…