Brazil Gateway’s three-part webinar series this summer

Last year, as a way to continue engaging with its stakeholders during a time of physical distancing, the Brazil Gateway team launched a series of webinars that took place during the spring and summer of 2020. The webinar series will continue this summer. The Brazil Gateway will host three webinars on diverse topics during the month of June. The first webinar took place on June 2 and featured Daniel Amgarten, co-founder and CEO of campus b, who discussed how multicultural teams can work together on real problems using a project-based learning approach. The next webinar is titled, “Graduate Student Experience” and will take place on June 16. The final webinar, “Contemporary Comics” will take place on June 23.

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Fulbright Opportunity for Faculty in Brazil

Applications are open for the Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Awards in the Interdisciplinary Network, which are pre-arranged affiliations to host exceptional scholars who conduct research relevant to any of five Brazilian partner universities countrywide. Deadline to apply is September 15.

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International Partnerships releases 2020 annual report

The Office of International Affairs partners with Ohio State’s academic units to develop, facilitate and advance a wide array of international collaborations. This Partnerships Annual Report provides statistics and highlights of Ohio State’s international partnership collaborations from 2020.

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Gateway News

Global Perspectives: Sophia Lenhart

Sophia Lenhart is an undergraduate student in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. Lenhart is also a current member of the Brazilian Student Association (BRASA) and a 2020-2021 FLAS fellow (Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships run by the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State) who spent some time in Brazil before the pandemic started in 2020. "I was an exchange student in Brazil in high school, and I fell in love with both the culture and the language. I also went back during my second semester at Ohio State to study at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and study Portuguese further."

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