Dr. Mark Orr - Paying Tribute to a Life of Greatness
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Dr. Mark T. Orr and Kay Orr |
When Dr. Mark Orr, founder of the USF International Affairs Center passed away on January 2, 2010, the university and IAC in particular lost one of its most cherished patrons. The legacy that Dr. Orr has left behind as a professor, an administrator and a human being who believed that conversation and understanding were the best weapons to bring cultures and countries together in harmony is one that will never fade away.
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A Word from International Affairs
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Dr. María Crummett, Dean of International Affairs | Every year the International Affairs Center and its supporting offices bring in the new year with a resolution to give the international and the American student population at USF a taste of what being a global university truly is about. With hundreds of students from across the globe, IAC has seen an increase in its international student population and a growing interest in American students to step outside U.S. soil and explore cultures that are unfamiliar to them.
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USF Participates In Haiti Relief
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Photo courtesy: American Red Cross/Talia Frenkel | When disaster struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, organizations all over the U.S. began to mobilize and put together resources to help the Haitian people in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake. One of these many groups were USF’s own student community who put their best foot forward to ensure that no efforts were left unturned in providing relief.
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Interactive Teaching in a Globalized World
 Recently awarded a grant by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), the Patel Center for Global Solutions and the College of Education at USF are conducting a six-week workshop on “Interactive Teaching in a Globalized World” between February 4 and March 14, 2010.
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Global at USF
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Olesya Lazareva
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For Olesya Lazareva, life is one ambitious journey after the other. And it is this approach to life that makes her one of University of South Florida’s international student success stories, in more ways than one.
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Back from Bolivia
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Colcapirhua, Bolivia
| The International Capstone program to Bolivia is one of USF Education Abroad’s most recent success stories. Returning from their program in December, students in the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering say the program gave them exactly what it was designed to provide - the opportunity to travel abroad and implement their academic knowledge in a realistic setting.
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