A total of 21 Students Studied Abroad in the 2010-2011 Academic Year. Students have participated in Study Abroad opportunities in the following locations: Hallym University, Korea; Spain and Costa Rica; the Wheelock College program in Ghana, West Africa; University of International Business and Economics in Beijing, China; the Caribbean island nations of Montserrat and Antigua; Nassau, Bahamas; Belize, Central America; London, England; Additionally, one student participated in Semester at Sea voyage around the world and three students participated in Semester at Sea's "Maymester" voyage to six Caribbean and Central American countries. Another student, with the assistance of a Chinese scholarship and a Global Thorobred Award, studied in the Chinese Language and Culture Summer Program at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.
New memoranda of agreement have been signed with the following: International Studies Abroad, Inc.; The Center for International Studies (CIS Abroad); CAPA International Education; the Institute for Shipboard Education (the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea program); Universidad de La Salle, Bogota, Colombia; and the University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic.
Nineteen students were awarded Global Thorobred awards for a total exceeding $50,000.
There are currently 235 students in the study abroad database. Over 100 students have had individual advising sessions.
The KSU Internationalization Task Force has as its goal to assist with campus internationalization and develop a proposed strategic plan by 2013.
The Facebook promotion continues to thrive with 185 students listed as friends of KSU OGEP; 94 individuals “like” the Kentucky State Study Abroad page; and 57 are listed as friends of KSU International Student Association page.
Jacob Botkins, Adam Gerughty and Russell Williams, graduate students in the KSU Masters of Environmental Studies program, and Dr. John Sedlacek, principal investigator for entomology in the Land Grant Program and instructor for the MES Student Team Project course, recently attended the Joint Meeting of the Second Kentucky Invasive Species Conference and the 13th Annual Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council Conference in Lexington, Ky. The group presented two posters entitled “Citizen Awareness of the Impact of Invasive Plant Species in Kentucky” and “Winter Management of an Invasive Species, Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) in Wooded Habitat.” The
research presented in the posters was the culmination of a two semester student team project for the MES course and was conducted in conjunction with the Kentucky State Nature Preserves Commission.
Jeremy Lowe, Co-Investigator of Horticulture in the Community Research Service of the KSU Land Grant Program, recently made two presentations entitled "Can Pawpaw
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