Global Experiences

We arrived in Prague just before 11:00 a.m. local time. At this point we had been traveling for over twenty hours straight, and we were tired. But the excitement in the group was palpable. Some of the students had never been out of the southeastern United States, much less all the way to Europe. Spring…

Along with about twenty-five students from UT and Alabama, it was an amazing three weeks in the Alps. We stayed in Austria with field trips to Germany, Italy and Switzerland. Austria is amazing!

As classes in Knoxville drew to an end and our classmates graduated, all of the students in Torino were still busy attending lectures and labs. The Italian class schedule instead requires students to continue attending classes until mid-June.

Going abroad has never really appealed to me. It takes time, money, and willingness to do touristy things, all things that a college guy like me tries to avoid.That being said, I decided to try it out for a short time by going on a week-long faculty-led trip to Madrid, Spain.

While at the Instituto Nacional Tecnica Aeroespacial (INTA), our group was allowed to see numerous things which would otherwise be unavailable to most people and most students for that matter. The INTA program is much akin to the US’s NASA, primarily working on aeronautics design and testing as well as research based on findings from…

COE students Zachary Wood, Kevin Gayler, and Jason McDonald participated in the trip to Madrid, Spain, from May 11-18, 2013, at the end of the spring semester. The Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) served as the provider for the trip.

TCE International Coordinator Judith Mallory accompanied nine students—Faith Frye, Avik Purkayastha, Vick Singh, Matt Loyd, Victoria Vest, Emma Hollman, Megan Ferell, Kylie White, and Michelle Morin—to Cartago in March, 2013, for service projects each morning and cultural activities in the afternoons.

Andrew Campbell, a graduate student studying with Dr. Megan Ryerson, was profiled in China Daily, China’s leading national English language newspaper. The article focuses on his participation in the National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program.

At this time tomorrow, I should be airborne over the Northeast on the redeye to Heathrow. In June, I’ll begin the IES Abroad program in Berlin; until then, I’ll be in the UK and France conducting research for my honors thesis.

After finishing up a family vacation around Europe, I arrived at the Umi hotel around 11 o’clock on June 5. I could tell everyone else was suffering from jet lag, so I decided to explore the area around where we were staying. The cars, people, and atmosphere were very different from what I was accustomed…