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        <description><![CDATA[ As International Education Week highlights global well-being, stories from across the university’s worldwide community reveal how connection fuels joy and learning. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Architecture alum Jordan Rogove is using his design expertise to create dignified modular housing for Maui wildfire survivors, reflecting his belief in architecture as a force for public good. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Studying abroad isn’t just about where you go – it’s about how it changes you. Start planning your adventure at the Study Abroad Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday under two big white tents on the Drillfield.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Scholarships inspired by alumni experiences abroad are giving students the chance to explore new cultures, spark passions, and shape their futures. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The college&#39;s “unearthed/Second Nature/PolliNATION” exhibition has been named a finalist for the University Project Award by the European Cultural Centre-Italy. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students studying at the Steger Center in Switzerland honor the 32 students and faculty whose lives were lost on April 16, 2007. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After a rough first semester that ended with her on academic probation, Vaughan went on to gain an internship, found a student organization, and participate in study abroad. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ After being diagnosed with a detached retina just days before she was to fly to India to lead a study abroad program, Professor Bonnie Zare relied on strong connections with Hokies and partners in India to ensure that her students could experience a transformative cultural immersion. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ With help from scholarships, Dunn was able to study abroad, perform veterinary research, and be a highly involved student. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students and faculty showcased the power of cross-cultural learning through vibrant performances, thought-provoking discussions, and interactive cultural exhibits that highlighted Virginia Tech’s commitment to fostering a diverse and interconnected academic community. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Drawing on the spirit of Ut Prosim, Erin Kaplan &#39;23 is helping relief efforts for her flood-damaged school in Spain, where roads are impassable and basic necessities scarce. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Jacqueline Bixler, Alumni Distinguished Professor of Spanish, and Patricia Kelly, professor emerita in the School of Education, endowed scholarships to help students afford to study abroad.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The program recently concluded its annual journey to Riva San Vitale, Switzerland, achieving a milestone in the personal and professional growth of the 20 undergraduate students selected to participate. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Fifteen undergraduate students spent their spring break being inspired by the living laboratory of Charles Darwin. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As a Global Fellow in Residence at the Mozaiko living-learning community, Varkey George engaged with students, faculty, and staff across various departments, sharing his experiences and advocating for global citizenship, community engagement, and deepening partnerships in Africa.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Through a winter break study abroad program in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, students connected with Indigenous communities to discuss environmental concerns. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ President Tim Sands and Dean Saonee Sarker reflect on the blueprint for the next generation of business education at the summit. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From local shrews to ocelots in the Amazon, Morse’s academic journey in the wildlife conservation major has been defined by hands-on learning experiences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A dozen of the 14 students who traveled to South Africa were part of the global food security and health minor housed in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Undergraduate Research Fellowships are helping students in the College of Natural Resources and Environment take their education into their own hands. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In recognition of Women&#39;s Month, five experienced researchers will share insights on navigating personal safety and cultural challenges while conducting research abroad and will offer practical wisdom to help women feel more prepared and confident when undertaking research in unfamiliar environments.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From Virginia Tech to the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, students dive into their shared experiences and uncover the profound impact of community, gratitude, and resilience in defining where they truly belong. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During the State of the University address, President Tim Sands’ interview two students at the Steger Center for International Scholarship in Switzerland offered a glimpse into the powerful effect of study abroad.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A $2.6 million grant will fund a new wildlife forensic center in Botswana as part of Virginia Tech’s ongoing collaborations with the government of the Republic of Botswana to foster conservation and global research initiatives in Africa.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The steering committee will examine how Virginia Tech’s investments and policies can advance the priority in alignment with the university’s broader goals.   ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech President Tim Sands traveled to Botswana to meet with President Eric Mokgweetsi Keabetswe Masisi and celebrate the expansion of collaborative projects as part of Virginia Tech’s efforts to expand the land-grant mission globally. ]]></description>
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        <title>Ozzie Abaye honored for national teaching excellence in food and agricultural sciences</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/cals-abaye-USDA-APLU-award.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Abaye&#39;s award recognizes over 30 years as a beloved educator who provides numerous global and hands-on learning experiences to students. ]]></description>
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        <title>Finding love and purpose: Alumni attest to Steger Center&#39;s impact</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/outreach-steger-alumni.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Sharing stories of personal growth, love, and professional development, alumni who have studied at Virginia Tech’s European hub reflect on the enduring impact of their study abroad experiences. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 08:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Kathleen Alexander receives Virginia’s highest faculty honor</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/cnre-alexander-schev.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Alexander, the William E. Lavery Professor in the College of Natural Resources and Environment, was recognized with an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:40:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Joseph L. Scarpaci</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/cnre-in-memoriam-scarpaci.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Scarpaci, a Virginia Tech faculty member for approximately 20 years whose research focused on urban and social geography in Latin America, passed away Dec. 30 in Blacksburg. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:41:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Virginia Tech establishes its first living-learning community outside the U.S.</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/outreach-steger-llc.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Steger Center for International Scholarship, the university’s only center outside the United States, and Student Affairs are launching Virginia Tech’s 22nd living-learning community, Casa Maderni. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Virginia Tech,  Xidian University forge cultural and educational bridge</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/12/pamplin-xdu-vt-xian.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ A group of three Virginia Tech professors – Don Hatfield, Gregory Kogan, and Ron Poff – traveled to Xi&#39;an to teach a cohort of students at the School of Economics and Management at Xidian University as part of the XDU-VT 3+1 program. ]]></description>
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        <title>MBA Study Abroad offers students a journey of discovery</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/12/pamplin-mba-study-abroad.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Tech MBA Study Abroad has been providing working professionals with  opportunities to explore global markets and learn about supply chains since 2003. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 16:54:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>A time to be thankful: News about Hokie Nation</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/11/cm-thankfulnews.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Hokies in Blacksburg and across the world do work that advances study, impacts communities, and leads the charge for positive change.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2023 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Five things to consider when thinking about studying abroad</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Studying abroad presents opportunities to learn countless new things about the world around you. Different places can provide insight to different things, so it is important to consider exactly what you want to get out of your time abroad.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Civil engineering students gain global perspectives during semester at the Steger Center in Switzerland</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/10/eng-cee-bridges-builders-society.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ After being cancelled in the spring of 2020 because of the pandemic, the long-awaited civil and environmental engineering semester abroad program in Switzerland is bringing memorable experiences to students.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Projects connect U.S. educators to East African scholarship, history, and culture</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During International Education Week, members of the East Africa Summer Institute for Educators are discussing the progress and expected impact of 12 projects being developed after an intensive monthlong curriculum development program in East Africa. ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech’s global impact: Dropping in on Hokies studying and working around the world</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ On any given day, in every corner of the world, Virginia Tech students, faculty, staff, and alumni are making a profound impact. As the university celebrates International Education Week, we check in with some of those Hokies embodying the university’s commitment to international education and engagement. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Otto Lanz, professor of small animal surgery at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, recently spent six months in Japan to collaborate with veterinarians on mini total hip replacements.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Engineering students restore Costa Rican community’s gathering place</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ During the 10-day service-learning trip, the seven students and their professor lived out ‘Ut Prosim’ and worked through a language barrier. ]]></description>
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        <title>On the prowl for big cats in Belize</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Wildlife conservation faculty Marcella Kelly and Brett Jesmer and their teams of student researchers are leading the efforts to protect jaguars and other animals in Belize. ]]></description>
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        <title>Impact Report details Pamplin&#39;s efforts for an inclusive business learning environment</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Pamplin College of Business Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging has published the second edition of the report, highlighting Pamplin’s efforts and outcomes in the 2022-23 academic year.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech’s global reach: Hokies take maroon and orange around the world</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Associate Professor Jonas Hauptman and a group of  students teamed with the Regeneration Field Institute to build an experimental cabin on the institute’s 71.5-acre Los Arboleros Farm, a tropical dry forest in the rural, agrarian community of Chone, Ecuador. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Hokies recently completed a nine-day tour in Switzerland and Italy. Graduate student Robbie Beran said the trip was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to taste a part of the Virginia Tech experience he would otherwise never get to have: studying abroad. ]]></description>
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        <title>Honoring his life: Spanish professors create scholarship in memory of late son</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Professors María del Carmen Caña Jiménez and Vinodh Venkatesh created a $100,000 endowed scholarship in honor of their late son that will provide funding for Spanish majors to study abroad.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The 11 faculty members learning to build, launch, and lead study abroad programs experienced a role reversal. To design a program that maximizes student outcomes, the faculty experienced studying abroad from a student&#39;s perspective in an immersive development program at the Steger Center for International Scholarship.   ]]></description>
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        <title>Homestays are the heart of studying abroad</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Living with local families allows Virginia Tech students studying abroad to immerse themselves in the local culture and to develop close relationships with their host families. Students can learn more about these opportunities at the Global Education Fall Fair in September. ]]></description>
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        <title>Pamplin shares success in its first-ever international experiential learning program, DEIB Around the World</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Pamplin College of Business Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) recently held its first-ever international experiential learning program, DEIB Around the World. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The Department of Computer Science partnered with Alamein International University in Egypt for a semesterlong capstone project during which students learned to collaborate with international team members, consider global perspectives, and develop computer science-based solutions for international audiences.  ]]></description>
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        <title>DEIB Around the World launches with expedition to Switzerland</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Beginning May 15, the Steger Center for International Scholarship will host more than two dozen underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students for the new program, sponsored by the Pamplin College of Business Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB).  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>‘Left me with hope’: Virginia Tech researchers reflect on watershed United Nations conference</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ As stewards of the natural world, how can humans protect and improve access to the planet’s most precious resource? Answering this question and more is the mission of dedicated researchers at Virginia Tech. A cohort from the university joined world leaders, scientists, activists, and fellow scholars at a historic United Nations Water Conference.   ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2023 16:39:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Fulbright scholar Joanie Willett studies the secrets of main street success</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The University of Exeter lecturer is working with the Center for Economic and Community Engagement to examine how revitalization efforts in Appalachian towns may also work for struggling town centers in England. ]]></description>
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        <title>Trading places: Student exchange programs help establish Blacksburg as an international hub</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/03/trading-places--blacksburg-as-an-international-hub-for-exchange-.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ Virginia Tech&#39;s international exchange program gives students such as Scott Hobbs and Satoka Mitsuhashi the ability to act as cultural ambassadors, promoting international relations at intimate levels. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:17:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Lucy Ferrari, Steger Center co-founder and international education trailblazer, honored as director emerita</title>
        <link>https://news.vt.edu/articles/2023/03/outreach-steger-aad-ferrari.html</link>
        <description><![CDATA[ After weaving herself into the fabric of the university for more than half a century, Ferrari is honored for her roles in launching and supporting the Steger Center for International Scholarship and fostering untold numbers of study abroad opportunities. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 10:11:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Global Travel Oversight Committee makes the impossible possible</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Imagine you are studying or conducting research in a foreign country when you discover you have lost your passport, or protesters have blocked major roads, or you’ve tested positive for COVID. What do you do? Whom do you call? ]]></description>
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        <title>Virginia Tech establishing India’s first dual degree master’s program in economics</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students will take classes at Mumbai-based NMIMS, one of India&#39;s leading universities, and then complete their second year in Blacksburg. They will earn an Master of Science in economics from NMIMS and a Master of Arts in economics from Virginia Tech.  ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2023 10:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Hokies take the plunge in pursuit of a sustainable New Zealand</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students learn about the interplay between humans and the natural environment on an overseas study trip to New Zealand. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2023 08:22:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Study abroad scholarship helps student connect to her heritage</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Senior Emma de Bara gained a new perspective on the world while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago during a faculty-led program in Spain. ]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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        <title>Veterinary instructors from Kenya, Uganda learn from – and teach – their peers at Virginia Tech</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ October sweater weather and the sight of ghosts and skeletons decorating Blacksburg residents’ houses and yards were a little bit jarring for four veterinary faculty members from Kenya and Uganda, but the teaching methods they learned and the insights they imparted to their hosts were eye-opening for all involved. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ From Dubai to Cambodia and Switzerland to Brunei, faculty-led study abroad programs are opening the world to Virginia Tech students and helping them learn how to be good global citizens. ]]></description>
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        <title>International Education Week to highlight global education at Virginia Tech</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alumna Leann Poirier will be the featured speaker at the inaugural Global Symposium, part of International Education Week, an opportunity to celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. ]]></description>
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        <title>CDC removes country-specific COVID-19 advisories</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In the past year, more than 1,150 Virginia Tech students studied abroad, most in programs led by faculty members. All students, faculty, and staff are invited the Global Education Fall Fair on Sept. 21 to learn more about the university’s many global opportunities.  ]]></description>
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        <title>Steger Center celebrates Virginia Tech&#39;s Sesquicentennial in Switzerland</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Alumni, current students, faculty members, and administrators join local residents and friends of the Steger Center to mark the 150th anniversary of the university&#39;s founding and to showcase the newly renovated European living-learning center. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Students studying this semester at the Steger Center for International Scholarship are finding that living like a local in Switzerland means much more than cheese and chocolate. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Just before she left on a Fulbright program to Ireland, Chantal Skubic assisted Afghan refugees at an arrival site. The alumna began working with refugees in her junior year at Virginia Tech, and the experience has led her down a path of service to global communities.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ A dozen faculty members and graduate students in the Career and Technical Education Program of the School of Education will immerse themselves in the cultural, environmental, business, educational, and governmental sectors of Zambia. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ In a normal year, students on study abroad programs experience tremendous growth as they navigate new cultures and environments. Add a global pandemic to the mix, and the experiences become all the more life-changing.  ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The established study abroad program switched to an intensive online internship program, giving Virginia Tech students skills in research design, programming, and data analysis as they analyzed food insecurity and conservation agriculture data from Ecuador. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Steinert Borella will develop collaborative opportunities for global education programs, faculty workshops, community engagement, alumni reunions, and institutional networking as the Steger Center resumes academic programming. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ The workshop will share best practices for promoting two prestigious State Department scholarship programs, the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship and the Critical Language Scholarship programs. ]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[ Despite program disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic, interest in studying abroad remains strong among Virginia Tech students. The Global Education Office&#39;s annual Study Abroad Week moved virtually this year and saw nearly 600 attend, including younger students planning future abroad experiences. ]]></description>
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