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A Cultural Ambassador

June 29, 2022 09:40 AM
When Ashlen Lemon, a linguistics major and TESOL minor, heard about the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program in Cambodia, the timing felt providential. At the time, Lemon was in Cambodia studying culture and the Khmer language at the Center for Khmer Studies, and she had heard about the Fulbright program through her classmates there.

2021
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A Stay-at-home Study Abroad

June 29, 2022 09:33 AM
Jo Huey, a Middle East studies/Arabic (MESA) major, will be the first to admit that she took a roundabout path to studying the Middle East and Arabic. While serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ in Malaysia, she was applying to transfer to BYU, but she had minimal time to research different majors. When she noticed MESA listed, it caught her attention.

2021
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Embassy Interns

April 27, 2022 10:12 AM
Over the past several years, BYU has been on a roll: more than twenty students each year have been selected for Internships with the US Department of State.

2020
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Student Spotlights

April 27, 2022 10:03 AM
Why do most BYU students never intern or study abroad? Cost is a big issue. In 2018, we awarded seventy-two students from across campus a Global Opportunity Scholarship—a unique, needs-based award “of last resort” that helps them with the funds they cannot obtain elsewhere.

2019
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Grandpa's Photos

April 27, 2022 10:01 AM
Using the same Argus C3 film camera, Taylor reshot the fifty-nine photos across Europe. He traveled to Amsterdam, Basel, Bavaria, Florence, London, Lugano, Munich, Paris, Rome, Vatican City, and Venice to create unique juxtapositions and updates on classic as well as lesser-known sites.

2018
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Teaching and Serving in Nicaragua

April 26, 2022 04:15 PM
Pratt, a Latin American studies major, recently interned near the city of Granada as the first volunteer intern for Vivifica Nica, a nonprofit organization that provides service opportunities in Nicaragua for university students.

2017, Issue 2
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More Global, More Students

April 26, 2022 04:18 PM
The “scholarship of last resort” is starting to get noticed across campus, and the number of benefiting students continues to grow—totaling 72 in 2017—thanks to support from alumni and friends.

2017, Issue 2
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Forging a Bond

April 26, 2022 04:20 PM
Zachary N. Larsen, a recipient of the Boren Scholarship coordinated through the Kennedy Center, has been learning Mandarin Chinese since September 2012. It all started when he was awarded an Air Force ROTC scholarship to study Chinese at BYU...

2017, Issue 1
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Noble Ambitions

April 26, 2022 04:23 PM
Alex Harper will spend a semester in direct-enrollment classes in Nanjing, China, and participate in an internship with a Nanjing-based news outlet as part of BYU’s Chinese Flagship Program—all thanks to a Boren Scholarship.

2017, Issue 1
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A Broader Horizon

April 26, 2022 04:25 PM
In May 2016 Robert Swasey jumped at the chance to combine two loves: engineering and languages. An engineering student at BYU with a passion for foreign languages and cultures...

2016, Issue 2
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Breathing China's Earth

April 26, 2022 04:28 PM
Benjamin Cuque, a dance major at Brigham Young University, would not hesitate to say that his China dance study abroad in spring 2016 transformed him.

2016, Issue 2
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A Change in Perspective

April 26, 2022 04:36 PM
Thanks to the Kennedy Center’s most recent initiative, Provo Parity, and donors who gave to the program, six students received a Global Opportunity Scholarship in 2015, allowing them to have an international experience that they otherwise couldn’t have had.

2016, Issue 1
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Embracing Learning Opportunities

April 26, 2022 04:38 PM
Sydney Outzen remembers watching her dad read the Washington Post every night after he returned home from work. Outzen would usually read the comics over her bowl of cereal, but eventually she began to glance through the rest of the newspaper. And her international curiosity grew.

2015
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Talking About the Maldives

April 26, 2022 04:44 PM
While walking by the Joseph F. Smith Building his sophomore year, Chris Johns noticed a poster for an internship program in New York.

2014, Issue 2
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Think Tank Economics

April 26, 2022 04:55 PM
When a coworker told Daehyeon Kim about an international internship she would be doing during the summer, Kim was intrigued. The coworker pointed Kim, an economics major and a Japanese minor, in the direction of the Kennedy Center.

2014, Issue 2
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The Safety Lens and Historical Context

April 26, 2022 04:59 PM
Growing up in a small farming community in central Washington state, I did not have any international experiences—not even a visit to Canada. And although I met people from other countries while serving in the Texas Houston Mission, that did not equate to an international experience.

2014, Issue 1
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Adding Language to Further Scholarship

April 26, 2022 05:05 PM
As a recipient of both a Boren and a Fulbright award, Annie Samhouri hopes to seek employment with USAID in the Office of Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment or with the United Nations.

2012, Issue 2
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Discovering a Passion

April 26, 2022 05:08 PM
Thomas Nance stepped up as the “man of the house” when his father left to serve with the Army Reserve in Iraq during Nance’s senior year of high school. As the only child left at home, he felt the need to take care of his mother and prepare more carefully for a future career and adult life.

2012, Issue 1
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Language-driven Life

April 26, 2022 05:10 PM
From Spanish to Arabic to English, Raage Sofe has long been interested in the study of languages. However, he also came to realize his love of language extended beyond linguistics to the culture, people, politics, and traditions of countries.

2012, Issue 1
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Close the Textbooks

April 26, 2022 05:13 PM
James Crookston felt that in order to understand the people and culture he was studying he had to reach outside his textbooks and discover what aspects set Europe apart from the rest of the world.

2011
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Language Opens Windows of Opportunity

April 26, 2022 05:16 PM
Dario Espinoza left his home in Guadalajara, Mexico, to learn English at the English Learning Center (ELC) and realized quickly that language holds the key to understanding, because without understanding what people around you are trying to communicate—whether by words or other means—one cannot get far in life.

2011
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Determination Turns Dreams to Reality

April 26, 2022 05:18 PM
As forces pushed Vanessa Rothfels away from her travel hopes, determination to experience life out of Provo before her ever-looming graduation date arrived led her to discover the great variety of people and culture in Europe.

2011
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Ambassador Paves the Way to Panama

April 26, 2022 05:21 PM
Living in a one-room shack with a tin roof and rotting wooden floors in Panama didn’t provide Maybelline Smithee many opportunities. When necessities like food and proper housing weren’t always available, a luxury like a formal college education was a mere dream and meeting with the Panamanian ambassador to the U.S. would have been unthinkable.

2011
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Gaining a Wider Perspective

April 26, 2022 05:23 PM
Harindranto Rasolo, native of Madagascar, has lived a life full of diverse people, cultures, and experience. From this combination, he has learned the key to expanding our world does not lie in visiting as many countries as one can in a lifetime...

2011
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Journal Quotes

April 26, 2022 05:24 PM
Students have an ever-increasing menu to consider when gaining publishing experience as undergraduates. Future teachers and anyone hoping to deepen their cross-cultural credentials may publish a CultureGuide, a teaching unit on a country they have lived in and studied.

2011
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My Job With CSE

April 26, 2022 05:26 PM
Few things have had a stronger influence on my academic pursuits and career goals than my involvement with BYU’s Center for the Study of Europe (CSE). It all started while I was taking a political science course on the European Union from Professor Rebecca Larsen.

2010
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Experiential Learning in China

April 26, 2022 05:32 PM
Working for Mondoro Company Limited proved to be extremely valuable to me academically, professionally, and spiritually.

2010
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Lessons Learned Abroad

April 26, 2022 05:35 PM
I got a phone call asking if I would be interested in an internship with the International Trade Center in Kyrgyzstan. I said yes, but to be honest, it wasn’t until I looked at a map that I found out where I was headed.

2010
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Development: The Importance of Religion and Activism

April 27, 2022 09:47 AM
Before I moved to Washington, D.C., a friend of mine was worried that I would lose my idealism in the face of scoundrel politics. In fact, my frustrations with the government have decreased, while my frustrations with the NGO world have grown significantly.

2008
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A Push Toward Collaboration

April 26, 2022 05:40 PM
My experience with USAID, as well as my past experiences working with various development organizations, has shaped much of what I know and how I currently view the field of development.

2008
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Working Together for Sustainable Development

April 27, 2022 09:50 AM
My interest in development began in high school, while I was working part-time in an organic supermarket. My coworkers and I would often discuss the issue of inequality, especially framed in terms of environmental sustainability, gender disparities, and international development efforts.

2008
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Avoiding the Santa Claus Mentality

April 26, 2022 05:46 PM
As each day goes by, our world continues to grow into a global community. We can no longer ignore what is going on in China, Africa, or even in the next state. The biggest challenge of globalization is its effect on the poor and uneducated.

2008
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Gardening for $$$

April 26, 2022 05:49 PM
Aside from the classroom or my involvement with Students for International Development (SID), my first exposure to international development came as a leader of young American volunteer teams in Beira, Mozambique, Africa.

2008
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The Locals Know Best

April 26, 2022 05:53 PM
A month into my fieldwork in South Africa, a manager from the provincial Department of Social Development asked me, “Do we take off our development coats when we get home from work? Are we wearing development or is it inside us?”.

2008
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Music, Medicine, and Mampong

April 26, 2022 05:57 PM
I don’t know what came over me in late 2003, but I suddenly had a strong urge to have an international experience, particularly in Africa. After a few clicks of the mouse on BYU’s International Study Programs web site, I discovered a medical anthropology field study program to Ghana, West Africa.

2007, Issue 2
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Motorcycles—A Vehicle for Social Change

April 26, 2022 06:00 PM
In Southeast Asia, specifically Vietnam, the introduction and widespread use of motorcycles is both a blessing and a curse. Throughout the last fifteen years, motorcycles have changed virtually every aspect of social life in Vietnam.

2007, Issue 1
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Malta—Is That in Utah?

April 27, 2022 08:07 AM
Well, no, it isn’t. Maybe you’re thinking about Magna. Malta is a small island in the Mediterranean Sea inhabited by about a half million people.

2007, Issue 1
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Cultural Barriers to Education Among the Tarahumara

April 27, 2022 08:25 AM
Chihuahua, Mexico is home to the Tarahumara, an indigenous population with a culture rich in tradition that is struggling to maintain its unique identity, while taking advantage of educational opportunities offered by the dominant culture.

2007, Issue 1
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Wormherders on Ice

April 27, 2022 08:30 AM
Antarctica, the vast icy desert that remains virtually untouched by humans, is the elusive seventh and least-visited continent on the face of the earth. It is the highest, driest, coldest, windiest, and emptiest place on earth.

2006
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Two Cultures in Contrast

April 27, 2022 08:33 AM
As we began our descent into a remote mountain valley, I yelled, “Is that it!?” straining to raise my voice above the roaring engine of our 1984 Soviet jeep, a sturdy veteran of the Russo-Afghan war that was built to go just about anywhere, although certainly not in comfort.

2006
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Telling Stories

April 27, 2022 08:39 AM
Among Xhosas (Ko-saws) in South Africa, storytelling is a magnificent art. Their stories are more than mere entertainment. Xhosa scholar Harold Scheub says storytelling for the Xhosa people is “not only a primary means of entertainment and artistic expression in the society, it is also the major educational device".

2005, Issue 2
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A Parliamentary Experience

April 27, 2022 08:43 AM
Undergraduates often have an ideal view of how the world works. We assume after putting in four, long years of university study, possibly even working an on- or off-campus job, eager employers will be lining up waiting for the moment when we finally put on our caps and gowns. Rarely is that truly the case.

2005, Issue 1
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Two Villages in the Guatemalan Highlands

April 27, 2022 08:50 AM
The sun is rising over a small Guatemalan village as a young college student rolls out of her sleeping bag and helps her host mother prepare a simple breakfast over the fire. There is no electricity, and the younger children haul water from a nearby well.

2004, Issue 2
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External Debt and the Developing World

April 27, 2022 08:55 AM
One of the main problems facing the developing world today is large and confining debt. A major obstacle to continued capital acquisition and future economic growth, debt burden is now one of the main concerns in international affairs.

2004, Issue 1
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Promoting Peace Through Human Development in Exiled Tibet

April 27, 2022 08:59 AM
As the U.S.-led war on terrorism gains momentum, three BYU students quietly work on the flank to counter terrorism in a very unique way. For the past two years Jason Monson, David Farmer, and I, Blaine Johnson, have been developing what is referred to as “substantive responses” to conditions that give rise to terrorism.

2003, Issue 1
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Capturing Some Bit of Truth in Ghana

April 27, 2022 09:03 AM
When the Africa Project (as it came to be called among those working on it) first began, Chris and I had not even met. That was more than two years ago. Rawson came to BYU as a transfer student and business major, but he did not remain in business for long—his heart belonged to film.

2002, Issue 2
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Advancing Communication

April 27, 2022 09:10 AM
In November 2002, a BYU audiology team of four professors and four graduate students traveled to Hanoi, Vietnam. The eighteen-day medical mission was headed by Dr. David McPherson, chair of the Audiology and Speech Language Pathology Department.

2002, Issue 1
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India's Shanti Ashram

April 27, 2022 09:14 AM
I remember those first days in India and how overwhelmed I felt. I was confused, tired, and unsure of what I had gotten myself into. The sights and smells were almost more than I could bear. Sure, I had been to Third World countries and lived abroad before, but this just seemed like more...

2001, Issue 2
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Educational Sacrifice

April 27, 2022 09:16 AM
Many of us take for granted the fact that we were able to attend school close to home, or at least, in the same country as our loved ones. A few graduate students at the Kennedy Center are not so lucky, but they consider themselves blessed in other ways.

2001, Issue 1
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Income Generation: A Viable Option for Poverty Alleviation

April 27, 2022 09:23 AM
The question of poverty alleviation holds center stage for development theorists and practitioners around the world. They use cooperative, cottage industry, income-generation, microcredit, and macro development schemes to combat this global problem.

2001, Issue 1
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Reconstructing a Family

April 27, 2022 09:25 AM
Before I left for England, my father gave me a family group sheet with the names of four generations of my family who had lived in India. With the invaluable assistance and support of my thesis advisor, Dr. Paul Kerry, I spent four weeks reconstructing my family’s involvement in the British East India Company.

2001, Issue 1
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2012, Issue 2
Crafting a Solid Foundation in Asia
Unfortunate Brother
Out of Obscurity
Adding Language to Further Scholarship
Glimpses of Amazing Deprivation
47 Languages Taught at BYU

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2012, Issue 1
Riding the Wave of the Tunisian Revolution
Learning About Self and About Others
You Are What You Eat
Language-driven Life
Discovering a Passion
Thugs and Drugs
2011 Fall Enrollment

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2011
Fear, Failure, and Faith
ISP + NAFSA
Challenges, Opportunites, and The International Church
Journal Quotes
Gaining a Wider Perspective
Ambassador Paves the Way to Panama
Determination Turns Dreams to Reality
Language Opens Windows of Opportunity
Close the Textbooks
Surveying an Eclectic Career
Global Audience Map: Kennedy Lecture Views Online

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2010
Middle East Perspective
25th Anniversary Retrospective
Lessons Learned Abroad
Experiential Learning in China
My Job With CSE
The Topic of War and Beyond
International Study Programs Since 1980

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2008
Save the World
Notes on International Development
Making the Connection
The Academy's Potential in International Development
We Have a Lot to Learn from Development
Working Together for Sustainable Development
Development: The Importance of Religion and Activism
The Locals Know Best
Gardening for $$$
Avoiding the Santa Claus Mentality
A Push Toward Collaboration
Being Part of the Change

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2007, Issue 2
Pt. 3, Careers and Trends
Pt. 2, Careers and Trends
Pt. 1, Careers and Trends
Music, Medicine, and Mampong
Thomas E. "Ted" Lyon

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2007, Issue 1
Pt. 3, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life
Pt. 2, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life
Pt. 1, Culture—The Vital Differences That Color Life
Cultural Barriers to Education Among the Tarahumara
Malta—Is That in Utah?
Motorcycles—A Vehicle for Social Change
Cultural Responses to Atrocity

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2006
Andrew Bay
Rural Mexico Through Juan Rulfo's Lens
A Walk in the Park?
The London Centre
Two Cultures in Contrast
Wormherders on Ice
An American's View of Denmark

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2005, Issue 2
Divine Coincidences
Who Is My Neighbor?
Art and Politics in Mao's China
Telling Stories
Laura Dupuy

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2005, Issue 1
A New Focus on Europe
Muscles From Brussels?
United States and Russia
A Parliamentary Experience
A Life of Contrasts

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2004, Issue 2
Beyond the Border
Socially Engaged Spiritually
Life in a Global Village
Two Villages in the Guatemalan Highlands
Midwest to Far East

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2004, Issue 1
A Reader's Journey
A Babe Upon Its Mother's Lap
From a Trickle to a Flood
American Primacy and Anti-americanism in World Politics
External Debt and the Developing World
In Defense of Right

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2003, Issue 2
David Matthew Kennedy
Pt. 3, Fostering a Global Vision
Pt. 2, Fostering a Global Vision
Pt. 1, Fostering a Global Vision
A Future of Possibilities

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2003, Issue 1
The Paradox of Religious Pluralism and Religious Uniqueness
What's So Great About America?
A Creative Approach to Making International Friends
Promoting Peace Through Human Development in Exiled Tibet
Contracting for the Future

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2002, Issue 2
GOT MILK?
Rehearsing American Literature in Spain
Bricks and Wild Animals
Advancing Communication

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2002, Issue 1
Sharing in the Exhilaration
Wadi Hydrology
Who's Next?
Capturing Some Bit of Truth in Ghana

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2001, Issue 2
A Tale of Two Cities
Islam and Western Culture
The Shrinking Planet
India's Shanti Ashram

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2001, Issue 1
Biodiversity Firsthand
Interdisciplinary Focus
Deep Focus
Reconstructing a Family
Income Generation: A Viable Option for Poverty Alleviation
Educational Sacrifice

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2000
Teachers in China
Tracing History in Arabian Bountiful