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The Mestenhauser Student Award honors the late Emeritus Professor Dr. Josef Mestenhauser, who dedicated his career to advocacy for and commitment to students.

Dina Manandhar, Adhora Madhuri, Oforiwaa Pee Agyei-Boakye, and Swapnil Puranik shared about their plans to use their University of Minnesota education to support their home communities.

The latest issue of Global U, the GPS Alliance e-newsletter for alumni, donors, and friends, is out now.

Two students from the Twin Cities campus and two students from the Crookston campus of the University of Minnesota have been awarded The Josef Mestenhauser Student Award for Excellence in Campus Internationalization.

Marta Hardardottir has always wanted to study somewhere outside Iceland. “I thought it would be a good way to widen my horizon, get to know other cultures, as well as my own,” she said.

Three Twin Cities campus students recently received the University’s Josef Mestenhauser Student Award for Excellence in Campus Internationalization for their outstanding contributions to international education. 

Bolli Steinn Huginsson, an exchange student from the University of Iceland, spent the fall 2021 semester at the University of Minnesota. He enjoyed the diversity of culture in the U.S.

Developing literacy in a language is more than just learning to write, speak, and understand. Using language texts to develop cultural knowledge is also key.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused more than 1,000 University of Minnesota study abroad students to return home early in the spring 2020 semester and squashed plans for learning abroad over the summer. But that didn’t mean an end to all international experiences.

Lucas Bagno has seen both the best and the worst economic situations in Brazil—a unique perspective he can share in his classes at the Carlson School of Management.