Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
For our first Indian village visit with Global Semester Abroad, three of us were assigned to one village. The village was Sailu and we were to work on a short assignment which included mapping out the village and looking at some of the health issues faced...
Credit: Janet Li
Major: Neuroscience
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:This group photo of Duke in Rome 2011 was taken right before we went *under* St. Peter's basilica in Rome! We began our exploration of that magnificent structure by visiting the "tomb of St. Peter" and other tombs of ancient Rome that were buried but preserved by...
Credit: Mary T. Boatwright
Major: Program Instructor
Visit to Santiago de Compostela
Around Madrid...
Credit: DIM Staff
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Students on the Duke in Rome 2011 Summer Program enjoy a well-earned pizza lunch after exploring Herculaneum, one of the cities covered by the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD. The delicious and plentiful food was one highlight of the program. We needed it! There was...
Credit: Mary T. Boatwright
Major: Program Instructor
Postcard From Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
I just got back from the first year of Duke's Global Semester Abroad: India + China, and it was in a word: incredible. In India, I took part in an Indian village wedding, learned how to milk a cow, caught auto rickshaws around town, witnessed a...
Credit: Alice Yen
Major: Public Policy
Postcard From Abroad
Dear Global Education Office,
Thank you so much for coordinating an incredible semester in Duke in Madrid this spring. When I first went abroad, I had absolutely no idea what to expect. The first month or two were scary, intimidating, new, and different.
But then I started to learn so...
Credit: Megan Weinand
Major: Biology, Spanish
Postcard from L.A.
IDEPSCA at the Los Angeles May Day Rally
Dear Global Education Office:
This semester, I completed an internship (as is required by the Duke in L.A. program) with IDEPSCA (Institute of Popular Education of Southern California). My work was with the Day Labor Project of this organization, where I was...
Credit: Michelle Lozano Villegas
Major: Public Policy
Postcard from L.A.
View from Griffith Observatory
Dear Global Education Office:
This semester, I went back home to Los Angeles and studied at USC. I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life, but this being a really big city, the Duke in L.A. program allowed me to see areas of the city I...
Credit: Michelle Lozano Villegas
Major: Public Policy
St. Stephans Basilika - Budapest
Duke in Berlin students enjoy sightseeing at St. Stephans Basilika during an Easter trip to Budapest, Hungary....
Credit: Felipe Gaitan
Postcard from Abroad
Adventures in South Africa
Dear Global Education Office,
I have recently returned home from my study abroad experience as part of the OTS/Duke Semester in South Africa. Through this program I was given the opportunity to conduct my own field research experiments in a wide variety of different South African...
Credit: Kyle Vickstrom
Major: Environmental Biology
Postcard from Abroad
Blue Jeans, Dart Frogs (La Selva, Costa Rica)
Dear Global Education Office:
These brightly-colored dart frogs are representative of the innumerable surprises you can find in the majestic primary forests of La Selva, an OTS biological station in northern Costa Rica. This station is one of the many...
Credit: Meghan Howard
Major: Anthropology
Duke in Glasgow Final Group Dinner
Duke in Glasgow students with their professor, Martin Steven, at the final group dinner....
Credit: Taylor Williams
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Fun in the Amazon!
Here is a snapshot of the Duke in the Andes study abroad program enjoying our time in the Amazon (specifically in the region of Napo). Every time we left our lodge (Yachana Lodge) we had to embark on this colossal canoe to...
Credit: Joy Harrison
Major: Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
Old and New in Downtown Glasgow. This photo was taken in the early morning on our way to a session at asylum court in downtown Glasgow. We had the opportunity to witness Judge John MacDonald, a friend of the Duke program, administer a hearing for asylum-seeking...
Credit: Taylor Williams
Major: Public Policy
Postcard from Abroad
Dear Global Education Office:
I climbed "La Basilica del Voto Nacional," a majestic church in the historic center of Quito. These are the "twin towers" of the church, and this view includes a breathtaking view of Quito.
-Joy Harrison...
Credit: Joy Harrison
Major: Spanish and Latin American Cultures
Colorful Lamps in Istanbul Bazaar
Colorful lamps for sale in one of Istanbul's bazaars....
Credit: Nick Gozik
