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President’s Award for Global Learning Launches Faculty Programs for 2025
The President’s Award for Global Learning is a prestigious experiential learning program that advances The University of Texas at Austin’s strategic mission ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award for Global Learning 2024 Faculty Programs Selected
Four faculty teams at The University of Texas at Austin partnering with international universities and nonprofit organizations in Northern Ireland, ...
Keep Reading »Faculty Proposals Receive 2022-2023 President’s Award for Global Learning
Two outstanding proposals from faculty at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive the 2022-2023 President’s Award ...
Keep Reading »Inspired Cohorts Return from President’s Award Journeys with Broadened Perspectives
From talking with garment workers on factory floors in India to building solar panels in the Galápagos Islands to addressing ...
Keep Reading »Natural Sciences Researchers Win President’s Award for Global Learning
Five teams with College of Natural Sciences students were honored this year with the President’s Award for Global Learning, which aims ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award for Global Learning 2022 Faculty Programs Awarded
Three innovative faculty programs partnering with international businesses and universities in Sweden, India, the United Kingdom, and Ecuador have been selected to ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Team Recognized at 2021 LGBT Health Workforce Conference
A 2019-2020 President’s Award for Global Learning team has won Best Education Poster at the 2021 LGBT Health Workforce Conference, ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Team Wins 2021 Longhorn Research Poster Session
One of the 2019-2020 President’s Award for Global Learning teams has won first place in the 2021 Longhorn Research Poster Session for their project on using interprofessional education ...
Keep Reading »President Hartzell Announces Launch of Newly Conceived President’s Award for Global Learning
President Hartzell recently unveiled a new vision for the President’s Award for Global Learning signature program centered on increasing student access and ...
Keep Reading »UT Austin Students to Tackle Global Challenges on 3 Continents
Five teams of students and faculty members are helping to have an impact on the world by addressing conservation efforts ...
Keep Reading »2020-2021 President’s Award for Global Learning Finalist Teams Selected
Twelve interdisciplinary teams of student and faculty researchers have been selected to pitch their multifaceted international projects for the 2020-2021 President’s Award ...
Keep Reading »2020 UT Alumna, Incoming Dell Med Student Champions Fair Care for All
UT alumna Veronica Remmert wants to help marginalized communities in the U.S. overcome healthcare disparities and ensure equitable treatment for everybody. After graduating this ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award for Global Learning Program Updates – COVID-19
Texas Global and the President’s Award for Global Learning (PAGL) is committed to supporting students and faculty as the university ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Team Tackles Colorism in Interactive “Museum of Color”
After implementing their research abroad in Ghana last summer, four President’s Award for Global Learning students brought their impactful findings back to ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Researcher Shares Personal Impetus Behind Project in India
Computer science student Rosaleen Xiong is the lead developer for a mobile app to help Indian LGBTQ+ patients receive ...
Keep Reading »UT Faculty Expand President’s Award Research in Puebla, Mexico
After a team of UT students and faculty spent several months researching and implementing their project in Puebla, Mexico last ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Researchers Want to Change the Standard of Refugee Health
While sanitation is widely considered a human right by many global organizations, menstruation is often overlooked as a major issue ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award For Global Learning Winners Honored at Celebration Dinner
Students and faculty from across disciplines gathered to celebrate the five winning teams of the President’s Award For Global Learning ...
Keep Reading »Winning Teams Selected for the 2019-20 President’s Award for Global Learning
Teams of students and faculty members that will create biodegradable embellishments for clothes in Copenhagen, research gaps in diabetes care in ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award Researcher Shares Her Experience Studying Colorism in Ghana
After senior Christina Cho’s team won the President’s Award for Global Learning in 2018, they spent 10 weeks in ...
Keep Reading »Returning President’s Award Teams Present Summer Research Projects
After conducting research abroad this summer, the 2018 winning teams of the President’s Award for Global Learning presented their projects ...
Keep Reading »Finalist Teams To Pitch Projects For The President’s Award For Global Learning
The International Board of Advisors has announced the 11 finalist teams for the 2019-2020 President’s Award for Global Learning. Each ...
Keep Reading »“Time For An Awakening” with Bro. Elliott 8-4-19 guest Timia Bethea and students from Univ. Texas at Austin (Awakening Media)
‘ “Time For An Awakening” for Sunday 8/04/2019 at 7:00 PM (EST) our guests was International Business senior, Ms. Timia ...
Keep Reading »Texas varsity will monitor city’s air (Bangalore Mirror)
A team of four researchers from University of Texas (UT) are in the city to map the air quality (PM ...
Keep Reading »Cultural communication exchange: Rebecca Chen checks in from Ghana research trip
Ghana welcomed our team in many ways. From the sweetest fruit juices that we instantly incorporated into our daily diet to children ...
Keep Reading »‘It’s all a stepping stone:’ students seek to understand colorism in Ghana through summer research (The Daily Texan)
In Ghana, women of color are bleaching their skin despite the country’s ban on the products. This practice is one ...
Keep Reading »Learning how to lower maternal mortality in Texas from an unlikely source (KXAN)
Too many mothers in Texas are losing their lives before they ever get to see their babies grow up. The ...
Keep Reading »Anastasiya Byelousova wants Texas mothers to survive and thrive.
UT junior Anastasiya Byelousova won’t be spending the summer at home in San Antonio. She will be traveling across the ...
Keep Reading »Fighting the Effects of Colorism in Ghana and at UT
Kinesiology and Health Education junior Vida Nwadiei and Educational Psychology Professor Kevin Cokley will travel to Ghana this summer as ...
Keep Reading »Three LBJ School-mentored teams win inaugural President’s Award for Global Learning
Three undergraduate research teams mentored by faculty from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at ...
Keep Reading »Two of seven winning teams feature Richards School talent
Every year, The University of Texas at Austin’s President’s Award for Global Learning is awarded to visionaries who seek solutions ...
Keep Reading »Awardees Honored at a Special Dinner Hosted by President Fenves
A big bold idea inspired the creation of the President’s Award for Global Learning and the big bold ideas of ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award for Global Learning Teams Selected
Research teams looking into air pollution in India, housing conditions in Mexico and perceptions of skin color in Ghana are ...
Keep Reading »President’s Award for Global Learning Finalist Teams Announced
We are excited to announce the 14 finalist teams for the inaugural year of the President’s Award for Global Learning. The ...
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