Our Global Campus: Engage the World Through Illinois

“I love the place I am in. I love the person I am becoming. But I know  eventually the fairytale must come to an end.” These are the bittersweet  words LAS global studies alumna, Emily Freiburger, offered when  describing her study abroad experience in Vienna, Austria. While it  wasn’t necessarily love for the German language that led her to Austria  the first time, enchan...

“Ich liebe den Ort, an dem ich bin. Ich liebe die Person, die ich werde.  Aber ich weiß, dass dieses Märchen irgendwann ein Ende haben muss.“  Dies warendie Worte von LAS Global Studies Absolventin Emily Freiburger,  als sie ihr Auslandssemester in Wien beschrieb. Obwohles nicht  unbedingt die Liebe zur deutschenSprache war, die Emily zum ersten  Malnach Österreich geführt...

在2020秋季學期開始之前，張雨農(Yunong Zhang)及戴毅然(Yiren Dai)分別在兩塊不同的土地上學習，彼此並不相識。雨農完成了他在美國的高中學業，而毅然也滿心期待的，準備前往美國伊利諾伊大學就讀。雖然因為全球疫情的關係，無法順利前往美國就讀，但這兩位來自中國的留學生，不僅分享著共同的興趣，更因此成為了彼此的最佳夥伴。這兩位社會學專業的大一新生，都參加了伊利諾伊大學，與浙江大學海寧國際校區合作的學術橋梁項目，...

Before the start of Fall 2020, Yunong Zhang and Yiren Dai studied on two different continents and had no prior knowledge of each other. Yunong was completing his final year at high school in America while Yiren was preparing for his long-anticipated move from China to Illinois for college. The two were united through the unfortunate circumstance of a global pandemic and their commonalities became...

Six countries and three education systems later, Third Culture Kid, Katrina Rbeiz, shares her diverse experiences growing up as a Lebanese-American in the Middle East. In this episode, she describes how her double major in psychology and global studies enables her to pursue research at the intersection of cultural identity and mental disorders. She also discusses how she uses her lived experiences...

Two LAS seniors, Robert Whitmore and Isabella Marquez, educate our listeners on what it means to be an African American and a Latina in the respective regions of Africa and Latin America. Both students departed for their study abroad experiences with a desire to integrate their hybrid identities, but interactions with the locals quickly revealed that identity is as much a status as it is a convers...

Jisoo Youn, Tina HyeJin Yeo, and Nikia Brown, instructors of a  transition course for international students, invited Cindy Wilson,  author of Too Much Soul for an exclusive interview on Our Global Campus  podcast. In this episode, Cindy details her experience growing up in the  Southern part of the United States with an African American family as a  transnational Korean a...

Thanks to a collaboration with Mike Nelson from the Office of the Vice  Chancellor for Institutional Advancement, we were able to connect with  Fisca Aulia – a 2015 graduate alumna currently serving as a Development  Planner in the Ministry of Planning in Jakarta, Indonesia. Fisca states  that while her childhood dream was to become a doctor, fate led her to  heal people a...

In this episode, HyeJin Tina Yeo, a teaching assistant  at Illinois’ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, talks with Jeongeun  Seo, a junior majoring in chemistry. Jeongeun takes us on her journey of  transferring to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an  international student from South Korea. She shares insider tips on the  transfer application process and h...

In this episode, HyeJin Tina Yeo, a teaching assistant at Illinois’ College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, talks with Jeongeun Seo, a junior majoring in chemistry. Jeongeun takes us on her journey of transferring to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as an international student from South Korea. She shares insider tips on the transfer application process and how to utilize university resou...

在這一集的節目當中，我們邀請到了大四的高邵靜同學Shaojing  Gao同學，請她來分享，她從中國到伊利諾伊，並進而成為校園領袖，這一段不同凡響的留學旅程。在此即將畢業之際，他也分享了為何選擇就讀伊利諾伊大學，並同時接觸了不同的人群及價值觀，以及如何在大學裡，培養相關的領導才能，這些珍貴的生命歷程，都將成為他畢業之後，繼續前往加州進修，最寶貴的經驗。高邵靜同學Shaojing  Gao都將在以下的節目中，娓娓道...

In this episode, graduating senior, Shaojing Gao, takes us on her  journey from China to her varied experiences as a student and campus  leader at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. As she prepares  to graduate, she shares why she chose to study at Illinois, her exposure  to diverse people and perspectives, and the gained leadership skills  that she will carry in...