International Programs and Services
SIUC International News
November 2009
- International Sports Night unites students of all cultures (India, Ghana, Nigeria and Taiwan)
- Africana Studies to become major
- Study focuses on seniors’ health, social connections (fof* India)
- University seeks to increase international enrollment (China, India and Taiwan)
- Presentations feature Arabic music, dance (Egypt)
- Conference connects students and innovators (India)
October 2009
- Top civil engineering society honors Nicklow (fof* India)
- SIUC celebrates Native American Heritage Month
- Event explores careers for women in science, math (fof* England)
- Medical faculty members win $2.6 million in grants (fof* India, Poland, Argentina and Uzbekistan)
- SIUC to host Foreign Language Film Conference (Germany)
- SIUC to host regional Irish Studies conference
- International foundation honors Sanjeev Kumar (fof* India)
September 2009
- New service seeks to meet student needs (Kenya, Nigeria)
- Grant money awarded for carbon capture research (fof* India)
- Engineering programs earn six-year accreditation (India)
- Four firms move to Innovate Illinois semi-finals (fof* India)
- Dean of students recognized as global ambassador (Kenya)
- SIUC celebrates Latino Heritage Month (Mexico)
- SIUC signs pact related to Iraqi student initiative
- Sales of Poundstone book, CD benefit library (China)
- Fulbright recipients travel the globe (India, Iceland, Iraq, Taiwan, Germany and Romania)
- Students strive to break divides (Saudi Arabia, Malaysia)
- Students gain insight into transportation system (fof* India)
- GMRC’s (Global Media Research Center) fall speaker series begins Sept. 14
- Austrian Delegation Visit
- SIUC to celebrate Latino Heritage Month
- Coffee hour connects students (China, South Korea)
August 2009
- SIUC licenses explosive detection technology (fof* China)
- Germans name SIUC professor a ‘Green Talent’ (fof* Germany)
- Exhibit highlights research by students (India, fof* India)
July 2009
- SIUC team leads Canadian reclamation effort
- Jyotsna Kapur earns Fulbright award (fof* India)
- Taiwanese, Korean students studying at SIUC
- SIUC renews agreement with Pakistani university
June 2009
- Khan wins Outstanding Dissertation Award
- Yen named editor of international journal
- SIUC to host 20 Southeast Asian undergraduate (Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia and Vietnam)
May 2009
- Music students, faculty embark on China trip
- Law school honors missing Chinese attorney
- Award allows researcher access to super computer (fof* Bangladesh)
- Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp set at SIUC
April 2009
- Sri Lankan students do not let war dampen New Year celebration
- Irish Festival brings in eclectic rhythms
- Researchers study jaguar, other wildlife in Mexico
- Cinema and Photography students win awards (Colombia, Kuwait and Japan)
- Duram to spend year at university in Ireland
- Chugh to help with study of coal use in China (fof* India)
- Faculty members named outstanding scholars (fof* China)
- Sanskriti showcases Indian culture
- Graduate students honored for teaching ability (Jamaica)
- Faculty members honored for superior teaching (fof* India, Korea)
- University celebrates Asian American Heritage Month
- Two women swap cultures with the Fulbright program (Ireland)
- International students face increased challenges in job market
March 2009
- Student wins prestigious award for second time (Chile)
- Choir, Wind Ensemble offer China Preview Concert
- SIUC to celebrate Asian American Heritage Month
February 2009
- Taste of Nations offers foreign food, fun (Latin America, Africa, India, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Honduras, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, Togo and Nigeria)
- SIUC to ink cooperative deal with Chinese
- Meeting offers details on trips to Egypt, Greece
- Students get chance to go on international journey (Egypt, Greece and Turkey)
- Students dance their way to cultural understanding (Ireland)
- International Festival on tap at SIUC
- Festivities feature fire, fashion and food
- International Buffet brings world to local palates
- Dragon kicks off International Week
- Student travels to Thailand for gibbons research
- Number of Indian students declines as economy falters
- Culture show wraps up International Week
- Professor's Peru findings placed in exhibit in Japan
- Lawyer who helps Iraqi refugees to present lecture
January 2009
- Study: Plants may serve as environmental sentinels (fof* China)
- Veterans’ issues focus of teleconference from Iraq
- Service project will benefit African children
- Students work to clothe children in Zambia
- Obama's inauguration brings sense of renewal (Bangladesh)
- SIUC to host former head of Iraq rebuilding effort
- SIUC may benefit from Iraq Education Initiative
- Vigil planned to honor victims of Mumbai attack (India)
- Marchers remember Mumbai victims at prayer vigil
- Engineering students win IDOT scholarship (fof* India)
- Officials expect SIUC to benefit from Iraq trip
- Officials seek to attract Iraqi students
December 2008
- Indian students react to terrorist attacks
- Linguistics attracts scholars from 10 countries
- Students hope film bridges gap with India
- Dietz, Gitau, Ahmed, Watts share Christmas traditions (Kenya, Bangladesh)
November 2008
- Gibson to present Outstanding Scholar Lecture (fof* England)
- Outside looking in: Economy (India, China, Thailand, Taiwan)
- Students serve international cuisine (India, France, Malaysia, Saudi, Japan, Palestine, Afghanistan, El Salvador )
- Agrawal speaks at international conferences (fof* India)
- Program’s graduates will engineer better medicine (fof* Egypt, China)
- History professor sharing his expertise in Poland (fof* Russia)
October 2008
- Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fatr (Saudi)
- Recreational Sports and Services honors Novikova (Russia)
- Agrawal to deliver keynote address at conference (fof* India)
- Graduate school could add environmental technology program (fof* India)
- 37th annual Miss Eboness Pageant promotes camaraderie (African American woman)
- Marilyn Church, a queen and a Marshall (Switzerland)
- Two earn global business professional designation (Germany, Mexico)
- Puppet show will carry multicultural message (Mexico)
- International community wants universal coverage (Germany, Mexico)
- Saudi students celebrate Saudi National Day
- Freshmen five (1 from Kuwait)
- Outside looking in: Education (Kenya, Greece, China)
- Clipius Technologies a finalist in statewide contest (fof* India, Taiwan)
- Law school offers summer program in Ireland
- Mahajan honored for intelligent systems work (fof* India)
- Fraternity aims to attract Latinos to campus
- Outside looking in: Foreign policy (Saudi Arabia, India)
- Japanese corrections officials studying at SIUC
September 2008
- Jewish community celebrates a fresh start
- Hispanic students hope for more representation
- Students take steps to learn culture (Peru, Venezuela, Dominican Republic and Colombia)
- Students break language barriers (Germany)
- German students get crash course in U.S. social work
- SIUC to host German students for five-day visit
- Fulbright fellows find home away from home
- SIUC starts exchange programs with Indian postgraduate institute
- Expert on Tibetan Buddhism to present lecture
- Vandeveer economics lectures start Sept. 12 (fof* India)
- Study Abroad course will focus on human rights (Germany)
- Downing elected to post with international group ( fof* London)
- SIUC hosting large group of Fulbright Scholars (represents 28 countries)
- Miller to discuss education in the Middle East and North Africa
- Student group sponsoring interfaith discussion
- Museum reception celebrates Latino culture
- Four firms among Innovate Illinois semi-finalists (fof* India)
August 2008
- Peter Gitau named associate vice chancellor (Kenya)
- SIU heads to Canada for sneak peak
- International agreement benefits students, faculty (India)
- Flags lowered to honor war casualty (Iraq)
- Courses focus on Chinese language, culture
- Self-instructional language studies available (China, France, Germany)
July 2008
- As Olympics near, professor reflects on China
- SIUC offers English as Second Language class
- Doctoral student wins Fulbright scholarship (Romania)
- Student is first in Illinois to win prestigious award (Sri Lanka)
- Finance professor, doctoral student win awards (India)
- Southeast Asian students at SIUC for institute (Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia and Vietnam)
June 2008
- Rankings reflect SIUC’s commitment to diversity (Africa)
- Doctoral student wins Internet research award (Philippines)
- Buys to present human rights lecture in Lithuania
- Twenty undergraduates win research awards (South Africa)
- SIUC will play key role in assisting Afghan farmers
May 2008
- Midwest Games 2008 deemed 'a huge success' (Malaysia)
- Accounting student wins prestigious scholarship (Nigeria)
- Law school honors Pakistan's chief justice
- Trip fosters international business relationships (Mexico)
- Student wins honor in international contest (from Alltech, a global corporation)
April 2008
- Taiwan trip creates opportunities for SIUC
- Film analyzes shift in jobs from U.S. to Mexico
- Foreign Language Day set for Thursday, April 10
- Faculty members honored for superior teaching (fof* India, Japan)
- Faculty members honored for scholarly work (fof* India, Morocco, England)
March 2008
- Workshop set for Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs
- SIUC to celebrate Asian American Heritage Month
- Centers serve growing racial/ethnic populations (Africa)
- National organization honors math professor (fof* Sudan)
- Big Muddy Film Festival winners named (Canada, Israel, Argentina)
- Abdul-Musawwir takes art, experiences to Turkey
February 2008
- Salsa champs to stage interactive performance (three times ESPN world championship duo)
- Award-winning photographer to share his work (Africa)
- Annual International Festival opens Monday
- Professor wins international award for invention (fof* India)
January 2008
- Organisation for hydrologists relocating to SIUC (fof* Peru)
- Speaker series offers variety of economics topics (On various Asian and European countries)
- Major focuses on both business, foreign languages
- International Film Series kicks off Jan.27 (Tanzania, Isreal, Russia)
- Journal names Balasubramanian as regional editor (fof* India)
- Kumar featured on organization's Web site (fof* India)
- Senior Afghan minister to receive honorary degree
- Briscoe to receive Distinguished Service Award (fof* Africa)
- Two students are finalists in art competition (South Korea, Japan)
- Team-taught course focuses on Irish culture
- Viswanathan named interim engineering dean (fof* India)
- Student team wins honors in international contest (Taiwan)
- Anthropologist brings field experience to classroom (Thailand)
- New lab test can detect SDS in soybean seedlings (fof* England)
December 2007
- SIUC to offer classes in Mandarin Chinese
- Big Muddy festival draws more international films
- American Physical Society honors Malik (fof* Bangladesh)
- Institute names SIUC's Vishwanathan as a fellow (fof* India)
- Researcher to explorer water problem in Peru (fof* Peru)
November 2007
- $1 million grant fuels wireless sensor research (Taiwan)
- Landmark program assists injured Iraq veterans
October 2007
- Researchers look to create biodiesel soybean lines (fof* Uk, China)
- Glassett to present papers at international meeting (Portugal)
- Geology faculty to present research at conference (fof* Romania)
- Instructor brings love of Irish language to students (fof* Ireland)
September 2007
- Soccer tournament helps bridge cultural gap (Africa, Latin American, China, Korea, Saudi, Greece)
- Three honored as Distinguished Alumni (1 fof* Thiland)
- Five elected to association's board of directors (1 fof* Srilanka)
- Global Media Resarch center plans speaker series (fof* West Indies, India)
- SIUC to host 'Night of African Melodies and Songs'
- Kuwaiti government promotes SIUC graduate
- New Dewey center to open in Poland
- College names Tadisina as interim associate dean (fof* India)
August 2007
- SIUC to offer classes on Chinese language, culture
- Expert on women's issues in Islam to speak at SIUC
- Researcher wins NSF grant for fuel cell research (fof* China)
- Publication honors engineering faculty members (fof* India)
- Four faculty members join College of Engineering (fof* Bangladesh, China)
- College of Science welcomes three faculty members (fof* China)
July 2007
- Adams invited to deliver paper in Australia
- Taiwanese students learning English at SIUC
- Researcher's work may aid profoundly disabled (fof* India)
- Vaux named dean of SIUC's College of Liberial Arts (fof* Ireland)
- SIUC scientist helps Caterpillar study ergonomics (fof India)
- Faculty member plays key role in major conference ( fof* China)
- Pakistani students at SIUC for summer institute
- History faculty member set to spend year in Italy
June 2007
- Students make the most of chance to study abroad (Europe)
- Researchers participate in trade mission to India
- SIUC students travel to Greece, Italy
- Council of Social Work Education honors Miah (fof* Bangladesh)
- Ranking reflect SIUC's commitment to diversity
- SIUC to play host to Korean students
- Ceremony to honor top African-American students
- Scientist's new process could mean cheaper fuel (fof* China)
- Book details chapter of French film history
May 2007
- Pendakur takes post at Florida Atlantic University (fof* India)
- SIUC hosts students from France
- Researcher's efforts get boost from NSF (fof* China)
- Hickman named Phi Kappa Phi Scholar (fof* Germany)
- Law school honors activist in Zimbabwe
- Economics students win scholarships, awards (Japan, Brazil)
April 2007
- Nine faculty members honored for scholarly work (fof* India, Taiwan)
- Nine faculty members honored for excellence (fof* Egypt)
- Graduate students cited for research, teaching (India)
- Komarraju wins Core Curriculum teaching honor (fof* India)
- Yesuf wins Thesis Award in 15-state competition (Ethiopia)
- Yesuf captures Oustanding Thesis Award (Ethiopia)
- Koch invited to join international society of editors
- Engineering college honors students, faculty and staff (fof* India, China, Poland)
- Mining engineering has bright future at SIUC (fof* India)
- Mathur named managing editor of leading journal (fof* Pakistan)
- Four finalists in the running for SIUC chancellor (fof* India)
March 2007
- Study-abroad legislation honors Simon's legacy
- Journalism school to host east African delegation
- SIUC joins Irish Literary Collections Portal
- Yeast research may boost ethanol production (fof*Lebanon)
- Researcher helping plan international conference (fof* Czech Republic)
- Engineering students win scholarships (India)
February 2007
- Fanning (Irish Studies) facilitates re-publication of novels
- Russian musicians to perform at SIUC
- Media expert from Bangladesh to speak at SIUC
- Big Muddy Film Festival opens Feb. 22 (many international films)
- SIUC offers class in Chinese language, culture
- College of Science adds two faculty members (1 fof* Romania)
- International Festival opens Feb. 13
- Downing to deliver honors lecture on Feb. 20 (fof* England)
January 2007
- Former U.N. weapons inspector to speak at SIUC
- Archaeology project in Mexico wins NSF support
- SIUC will offer new doctoral degree program (fof* Greece)
- Abdul-Musawwir to speak at Indiana University arts festival (African American)
December 2006
- SIUC anthropologist honored for islands research (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Faculty member to head French-speaking group
- Peruvian government to honor SIUC anthropologist
- Irish SIUC student follows in father's footsteps
November 2006
- SIUC engineering professor receives academic award (fof* India)
- Internship pays dividends for SIUC student (from a Germany company)
- SIUC researcher excavates ancient Peruvian knives
October 2006
- SIUC to host United Nations adviser
- Ag expert to talk about Brazilian agriculture
- Princeton Review names SIUC a "Best Business School"
- New federal grant fuels soybean research at SIUC (fof* Morocco)
- Center for English as a Second Language growing (over 100 international students)
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September 2006
- International Film Series opens world to viewers (Iran, France/Germany, UK)
- Research may lead to solid-state refrigeration
(team members represent USA, India, Russia, Canada, Nepal and Bangladesh!) - Graduate students prepare to study in (Taiwan)
- Elsaid retires after 39 years in business college (fof* Egypt)
August 2006
- Dettmar wins major grant for seminar in (Ireland)
- Plenty to see and do in SIU tent at Du Quoin fair
August 28, International Day - Media center offers foreign language instruction (Arabic, Chinese, French, German and/or Spanish)
- Chugh earns Fulbright Senior Specialist honor (fof* India)
- Department attracts seven new scholars (Europe)
- Mass spectrometry expert to speak at SIUC (Switzerland)
- SIUC hurricane refugee students head home to (France)
- Vaux named interim dean at College of Liberal Arts (fof* Ireland)
- Business professor explores gender stereotyping (Sweden)
July 2006
- Miah named School of Social Work director (fof* Bangladesh)
- SIUC to host Taiwanese students for two weeks (Taiwan)
- SIUC group traveled to Africa to train journalists (Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya)
- SIUC to offer 'Gender in Global Politics' course (worldwide)
- Dewey center to host scholar from Macedonia (Macedonia)
- China's booming aviation sector may benefit SIUC (China)
June 2006
- Field seminar takes business students to Europe
- SIUC researchers explore Mayan settlement (Guatemala)
- Project to explore conditions inside the planet (Egypt)
- Political scientist assisting Ukrainian academy (Ukraine)
- Exchange program brings French students to SIUC (France)
- Officials to explore partnerships in Taiwan, China (Taiwan, China)
- SIUC to host international glass artists June 12-14 (Czech Republic, Korea)
May 2006
- SIUC officials part of delegation headed to China (China)
- College's graduating class has international flavor (Republic of Benin, Brazil, Chile, Cyprus, Japan, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China, South Korea)
- SIUC students win prizes at research symposium (Burkino Faso)
- Doctoral student wins grant for geology research (Indian student)
- Accounting faculty, students capture honors (Fandohan-Benin, West Africa; Yang-Taiwan)
- SIUC journalism students win scholarships (Taiwan – Yeh, Yeh & Hsieh)
- SIUC team fourth in national cyber defense contest (India, Mehta)
April 2006
- Undergraduate from Italy named 1 of 25 Distinguished Scholars (Italy, Mulabdic)
- Israeli airline executive to speak at SIUC (Israel)
- SIU Faculty with International Connections Among Those Honored for Scholarship
(Debeljuk going to Germany, Gibson fof* Great Britain, Wiltowski fof* Poland) - Sanjeev Kumar named SIUC's outstanding teacher (fof* India)
- Mohammed named SIUC's Outstanding Scholar (fof* Sudan, Great Britain)
- McCubbin to travel to China as Fulbright Scholar (China)
- Notable - April 19 (Yang, fof* Korea)
March 2006
- SIUC to observe Asian Awareness Month (Asia)
- Journalists to share Middle East perspectives (Middle East)
- Irish Studies helps students reconnect with roots (Ireland)
- Notable - March 1 (Zhang, fof* China)
February 2006
- Thai university president returns for visit (Thailand)
- International Festival opens Feb. 14
- Notable - February 15 (Becker to Japan)
- Notable - February 08 (study Illinois, Svec)
January 2006
- WSIU-FM news director shares expertise in India (India)
- International Aviation students win scholarship (Kenya, Asingo; Japan, Takeshita)
- SIUC, Taiwanese university explore partnership (Taiwan)
- Documentary explores foods, culture of Turkey (Turkey)
- SIUC researcher using coal to generate hydrogen (from Poland)
- Forestry professor provides expertise to Afghans (Afghanistan)
- Notable -January 25 (Ibrahim, Dahlak Archipelago, Eritrea)
- Notable - January 18 (Mohammed, Egypt)
*fof stands for "faculty member originally from"