Study Abroad News

Cameron Piper, a Villanova Engineering student, has won Arcadia in Rome‘s Short Film Contest for students currently enrolled at Arcadia University Center for Italian Studies in Rome. Throughout Cameron’s 5 minute video, he highlighted many places he visited including his apartment during his stay in Italy and great sights including the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps Capitoline [...]

The College of Global Studies at Arcadia University is delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of IMPACT, The College’s Journal of Study Abroad. We invite you to view the magazine online. This edition features a collaboration of two of our colleagues at the University of California at San Diego: Mr. Jim Galvin, [...]

Visiting Professor Aldo Fanchiotti from Roma Tre University will be at Arcadia next Tuesday and Thursday to give two educational presentations. The first, titled “Solar Cooling: Using the Sun’s Heat to Cool Buildings,” will feature two strategies for solar cooling; limiting the thermal load or amount of heat a building absorbs by using “Cool Materials” [...]

A group of 24 of Arcadia University’s Brazil Preview students have completed their spring break visit to São Paulo. During the visit they studied the socio-cultural significance of football in Brazil, meeting with faculty and students from The College of Technology in São José do Rio Preto and playing the national sport of soccer (football) [...]

Two Villanova University students, Sean Hudgins and Danielle McMonagle, both Communications majors, were interviewed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper in Rome this week as students with a unique perspective on the election of Pope Francis I. Both students are participants on Villanova’s Vatican Internship program and the Arcadia in Rome program. Other Villanova students were active [...]

On March 5, The College of Global Studies was honored to welcome a delegation of higher education leaders from Romania, led by the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Higher Education, Dr. Gigel Paraschiv. The visit highlighted the growing connections between The College and educators in Romania and included fascinating discussions on developments at [...]

The College of Global Studies is proud to announce its first Research Seminar Series in Dublin. This enlightening and educational series of seminars will begin March 12, with Matthew Sutton, Associate Professor of History at Washington State University and Fulbright Scholar, presenting: Bracing for Armageddon: The Origins of the American Christian Right. “The intention is [...]

The College of Global Studies welcomes Dr. Giséle Manganelli Fernandes, Professor at UNESP – São Paulo State University (Brazil), in the second edition of their monthly lecture series. Dr. Fernandes will present, “The Brazilian Higher Education System: Opportunities for International Study,” on Tuesday, February 26, at 1:00 pm in the Larsen Hall Conference Room. Dr. [...]

Arcadia’s Edinburgh Center launched the spring cycle of its free online lecture series in February, with a fascinating lecture by Dr. Robert Irvine, Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, on Robert Burns: Life and Work. As Scotland prepares to hold a Referendum on Scottish Independence from the United Kingdom in the fall 2014, this [...]