As Ohio State enhances its efforts for students, faculty and staff to experience international education opportunities, we will be better prepared to interact with the world around us. International activities occur near and far on the Ohio State campus. And, they enable all of us to build alliances, share experiences and learn from one another.

This month President E. Gordon Gee will formally recognize 32 students and faculty members from Ohio State who are recent recipients of prestigious Fulbright and Fulbright-Hayes fellowships. These scholars already have been or will be conducting research abroad, working with international colleagues or lecturing to promote general global welfare. We are extremely proud to be home this year to more Fulbright faculty scholars than any other university in Ohio.

We also will be hosting 4 foreign scholars who have received Fulbright grants to teach and conduct research in the United States under the Visiting Scholars Program. These visiting scholars will work with faculty members at Ohio State in the Department of Civil and Environment Engineering, the School of Teaching and Learning and the Department of Entomology, just to name a few. Additionally, there are 16 foreign Fulbright fellows visiting us Ohio State this year.

Ohio State recently welcomed a number of international visitors to our campus. The president of Wuhan University, Professor Jingnan Liu, was in Columbus in December and signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will expand collaborations between Ohio State and Wuhan University on several instructional and research projects, in particular involving our TIE initiatives on Climate, Water and Carbon, as well as the Institute for Energy and the Environment. A visit is also planned by Professor Wolfram Ressel, Rektor of the University of Stuttgart in mid-February to embark on yet another academic commitment involving the College of Engineering with its renowned Center for Automotive Research.

These exchanges will further the university’s efforts to be recognized as a highly distinguished global institution.

Dieter Wanner
Interim Associate Provost
Office of International Affairs