Office of Global Education

Hunting Monkeys The difficulties of conservation and cooperation in the Amazon The Amazon Rainforest has become a breeding ground for strange interactions between international oil companies, conservationist scientists, and indigenous activists. In the Yasuní, the largest national park in Ecuador, this all comes to a head around the practice of hunting monkeys, making this buggy-eyed […]

I’ve never seen a playground at a bar in the United States. So I was pretty surprised when I walked into the huge outdoor expanse that is La Guingette–a bar, principally, but one that includes a stage for live music, an enormous restaurant, river banks where people sit and chat along the Loire, and–really–a playground. […]

Hi I'm a piece of stereotypical German street art Freshmen Hoyas seem to be experts on just about everything except how much Natty Light they can handle. I’m still waiting for those statistics to come out from this past school year so I can see exactly how many people were GERMSed. I, like almost everybody […]

In my family I’m always the one leaving; never stopping for more than fours weeks at time. It could be for boarding school, which I have been in since the age of six or it could be for a semester abroad. If someone else is willing to pay for me then I’m gone! In all […]