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What’s it like to help organize one of The Ohio State University’s biggest annual events? Just ask Shadiyah Feliciano, Taste of OSU 2024 student chair.

Second-year Cordelia Van der Veer attended the United Nations Climate Change COP 28 conference in Dubai UAE in 2023.

My education abroad experience was memorable because it was student-driven! Our trip to Dubai was the first time Ohio State had taken students to the U.N. Climate Summit, so students played an important part in shaping the program. When we were in Dubai, we decided what events and opportunities were most important to us.

Ariana Gill is a junior studying animal science and religious studies. She traveled abroad to Ireland as part of the Human and Animal Interactions program over winter break 2023.

What made my education abroad fun was how I got to be involved in a program that is aligned with my major. I am an animal science major and animals are my biggest passion, so going Ireland to not only experience another country but to visit some animals and learn about their ways of caring for them was very cool and something I will remember for the rest of my life. 

Heather Schwab is a junior studying chemical engineering with a minor in humanitarian engineering. She studied abroad in Guyana on the Humanitarian Engineering and Culture in Guyana program during winter break 2023. 

Acacia Rhodes is a second-year Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife major specializing in wildlife conservation with a minor in Spanish. Acacia studied abroad on the Panama:Through the Lens of AgriCulture, Sustainability and Diversity program during winter break 2023.

"Fulbright has been a truly life changing experience. Learning to live and work in my second language (Spanish) and having daily exposure to a third (Catalan) has provided me with a greater appreciation for the beauty and culture that each language carries within it, as well as a newfound understanding of the difficulties that those who live and work in their non-native language experience on a daily basis,” reflects Hayley Dunlop, MD ‘25 candidate in the College of Medicine.

Mateo Zevallos is a second-year undergraduate student studying Biomedical Science. He was awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship to study Portuguese during the summer of 2023.