Maya Semans, an SIT Study Abroad participant to South Africa: and a senior at Simmons College, was recently awarded the $10,000 Davis Peace Prize. Semans plans to return to South Africa with former SIT classmate Vanessa Shea of Smith College. The two of them will run a three-week creative writing, art, and music camp this [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2010
A semester in Nepal – The Boston Globe
SIT Study Abroad alum Judson Peck, a junior at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, was interviewed for an article in The Boston Globe about his Fall 2009 semester abroad with the Nepal: Social Entrepreneurship in the Himalayas program. The article, entitled A Semester in Nepal, provides some tidbits of Peck’s experience living with a Nepali host [...]
SIT Master of Global Management Students in Oman
Live and study in the dynamic international crossroads of the Gulf/Middle East while you gain the skills and perspective of an innovative and responsible global leader. SIT’s Master of Global Management degree in the Sultanate of Oman combines management fundamentals with social responsibility and sustainability, global politics and economics, and intercultural management and conflict negotiation. [...]
Join the Conversation: World Learning Kicks Off First Global Dialogues Program
Written by Adam Weinberg, President and CEO, World Learning World Learning does an amazing job of inspiring and preparing young people to address critical global issues. This month, we go one step farther with our first Global Dialogues Travel Seminar—short-term programs for individuals of all ages who want to explore and engage with other cultures throughout [...]
World Learning commemorates Earth Day by highlighting efforts accross the globe
In celebration of Earth Day, World Learning is highlighting the work of staff and students around the globe. Students learning about environmental issues often bring home what they have learned and share with those around them. In addition, program staff continually find ways to ensure that programs are run in a sustainable manner. We’d like [...]
SIT Study Abroad faculty to speak at Cornell on health care, racism, and poverty in Brazil
On Monday, April 19 at 4:30pm, Damiana de Miranda, M.D., Ph.D., will address emerging issues in health care in Brazil. Dr. de Miranda will highlight the ways in which historic structural racism negatively impacts Brazilian life while obstructing the social and economic development of the country. Dr. de Miranda is the academic director of SIT’s [...]
SIT Study Abroad alum to return to the Balkans on a Fulbright
Zoë Brennan-Krohn (spring 2008 Balkans: Post-Conflict Transformation in Croatia, Bosnia, and Serbia student) has been awarded a Fulbright grant to return to the Balkans. In addition to teaching English at the University of Banja Luka, Zoë will work with local research projects examining education reform in Bosnia as well as youth identity among young people [...]
SIT Farm Gears Up for Year Two of Sustainable Agriculture
The SIT Farm and Sustainable Agriculture Initiative has been one of the many sustainability projects implemented at World Learning in the last year. The Farm is gearing up for its second year with many exciting improvements and expansions planned. Plans for improvements and changes to the SIT Farm fall into three major categories. 1) Local [...]
Forty-Five SIT Study Abroad alumni present at Notre Dame conference
SIT Study Abroad is proud to announce that 45 alumni from more than 30 different institutions of higher education presented their research at the 2010 Human Development Conference, People, Power, and Pragmatism: The Future of Development in Our Changing World, (February 26 and 27), on Notre Dame’s campus in Indiana. Read the full press release [...]
SIT Study Abroad alum completes film on Jewish community in Bolivia
Jonas Jacobs, an alumni of the Spring 2007 Bolivia: Multiculturalism, Globalization, and Social Change, has completed a film entitled “NO WAY TO SAY GOODBYE”. In 1939, at the dawn of the Holocaust, Bolivia was one of the few countries in the world to allow Jewish immigration. In the city of Cochabamba, there were once more [...]
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