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The anticipated arrival at SUNY Oswego of at least 40 degree-seeking South Korean students in January has generated a multilayered effort to prepare for them and to boost campus awareness of all international students.

An alumnus who was the first in his family to have a passport and had his life changed by a study abroad experience through SUNY Oswego has made a generous gift to the college to pass on the opportunity of international experience to current and future students.

The Paraguayan Ministry of Education in August bestowed a medal on Tracy K. Lewis, a SUNY Oswego professor of modern languages who has helped focus attention on the South American country as it made its way out of dictatorship to parliamentary democracy.

SUNY Oswego will formally launch the Institute for Global Engagement this fall, though the organization already has been active in a world of ways promoting international awareness among students, faculty, staff and community.

SUNY Oswego student Benjamin Gerardi, due to receive a master’s in education in May, will spend the 2012-13 school year teaching in Salzburg as a guest of the Austrian government.

A South Korean university will send dozens of students to SUNY Oswego in January as the most visible example to date of the college’s increased recruitment of international students.

A Campus Center arena concert will bring internationally known Pakistani singers Arif Lohar and Arooj Aftab to SUNY Oswego at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 11.

A 23-member team from SUNY Oswego successfully reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in mid-January as part of a class that brought learning to new heights.

SUNY Oswego last month signed its first international agreement for a mutual degree program in the natural sciences, establishing a “two-plus-two” program in chemistry with Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou, eastern China.

The Chronicle of Higher Education has recognized SUNY Oswego as one of this year’s Fulbright Scholarship “top producers.” Two Oswego faculty members are studying and teaching overseas on Fulbright awards, one in India and the other in Kenya.

Sonia Shah, investigative journalist and award-winning author will make the keynote presentation for SUNY Oswego’s fifth annual Hart Hall Global Awareness Conference at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5, in Room 101 of Lanigan Hall.

SUNY Oswego Distinguished Teaching Professor of History Geraldine Forbes will share her knowledge, and collect more, through a Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Lecturer Fellowship to India.

SUNY Oswego’s Benjamin Ogwo led a team of five other faculty members to his native Nigeria this summer to help train college professors to prepare teachers in technical vocations.

SUNY Oswego’s Artswego will be among only five arts organizations nationwide to host groundbreaking performances, campus residencies and community dialogues in the first year of a program aimed at fostering better understanding of cultures throughout the many-hued world of Islam.

Dr. Faith Maina, a SUNY Oswego faculty member and a new Fulbright Scholar, looks forward to returning this school year to Kenya, her native land, as she seeks to build the research and writing skillsets of young Kenyan scholars.

SUNY Oswego faculty member Fehmi Damkaci declared all 223 young scientists and artists from 34 countries and 31 states the winners at the closing awards ceremony June 30 of the first GENIUS Olympiad.

A new book by Dr. Lisa Glidden of SUNY Oswego’s political science department looks at how indigenous movements developed in South America, as well as factors behind ethnic political actions across the globe.

The first GENIUS Olympiad’s opening activities—an exhibition of student projects and a ceremony featuring a noted National Geographic photographer—will be open to the public Monday, June 27, at SUNY Oswego.

Dr. Kamal Mohamed, SUNY Oswego professor of biological sciences and a Sudanese native, traveled to South Sudan last summer, saw the barren shelves of the library at Dr. John Garang Memorial University of Science and Technology in Bor, South Sudan, and came away determined to help.

Short-term options for study and travel have increased rapidly at SUNY Oswego in recent years, including a unique, first-time program that culminates in May with a trip to Iceland.

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