2023-05-02 - Dr. Charles Fogelman, Teaching Assistant Professor in the LAS Global Studies Program, has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad grant to spend six months conducting qualitative research in Lesotho, from June until December 2023. Dr. Fogelman's project, titled "Developing the Mountain Kingdom's Landscapes: Poverty Alleviation, Land, and Horticulture in Lesotho," will focus on...

2023-04-20 - Natalie Klunke is a first-year student in Global Studies and a recipient of the Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship. She will combine her Swahili language studies with an area studies focus in South Africa. Congratulations Natalie!  

2023-04-17 - In episode 5 of season 3 of Our Global Campus Podcast, Global Studies major, Stephanie (Steph) Lepak, shares how her passion met a problem that subsequently revealed her purpose.

2023-03-03 - Please go and visit an art exhibit curated by Callie Goeing a Global Studies major. The exhibit is to elevate adoptee voices and stories.

2023-01-26 - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumna Brittney Nadler recently was awarded a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellowship. Funded by the U.S. Department of State and administered by Howard University, the Pickering Fellowship supports individuals who seek careers in the State Department’s Foreign Service. Nadler was among 45...