In May 2024, Indiana University launched the IU Ghana Gateway in the capital city of Accra. Nine months later, Distinguished Professor and Academic Director of the IU Ghana Gateway Samuel Obeng took the lectern at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences to deliver the Academy’s J.B. Danquah Memorial Lecture Series.
On one of the final Fridays of the semester, students, faculty, and staff filled the fourth floor of the Ferguson International Center for the second annual Global Learning Showcase. Organized by Global Learning Specialist Andrea Nikolova of the Center for the Study of Global Change, the event began with a keynote from Svitlana Ramer, the…… Read more »
Indiana University launched its first IU Global Gateway on the African continent in 2024 with the appointment of its Academic Director, Samuel Obeng, and the launch of its physical space in the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences. In February 2025, the Gateway entered its next phase of growth with Dr. Abigail Opong-Tetteh joining the…… Read more »
Professor of history Alex Lichtenstein may not seem like the ideal candidate to teach Indian fine art students as a part of a U.S. Department of State international scholar program. Thanks to the Fulbright Specialist program, Lichtenstein did just that in the late summer of 2024.
The Global Learning Symposium held at IU Indianapolis in Fall 2024 brought participants from across Indiana together to share the impact and importance of global engagement in the classroom.
This year’s Virtual Global Learning Fellows (VGLF) hosted by IU Indianapolis come from a variety of backgrounds and previous types of global engagement, but all share the passion to connect their students with real-life skills.
Indiana University welcomes Dr. Samuel Gyasi Obeng as the inaugural academic director of the IU Ghana Gateway. The Gateway is the first of its kind for a public university on the African continent.
Since 2018 the annual tradition of International Education Week on Bloomington’s campus has had a special addition: the Global Citizen Scholarship. Started as a way to bring students into the Office of International Services’ 75th anniversary, the video competition and scholarship was so popular it has continued each year since. A one-time scholarship, the award…… Read more »
For nearly 60 years, Indiana University and Universität Hamburg (UHH) have collaborated on research, exchanged students and faculty, and strengthened both universities’ contributions to their regions. The top tier research universities’ partnership continues this year through Universität Hamburg’s Next Generation Partnership (NGP) Thematic Networks, a multilateral research funding program administered by the Department of International…… Read more »
The Global Gateway Network welcomes its second Director in its history today. Cathie Carrigan joins the IU Global team after nearly two decades of experience in international education across IU campuses. Her most recent work as Managing Director of International Programs with the Lily Family School of Philanthropy saw her lead the international dissemination of…… Read more »