Carol Perez, a high-level State Department official, will visit Pittsburgh to promote the many ways Americans can conduct foreign policy and serve their country abroad. Students of Less-Commonly-Taught Languages are uniquely qualified for a career with the State Department, as they have already demonstrated their ability to adapt to other cultures and communicate with people from different backgrounds. Also, there is a high demand in the U.S. Government for speakers of Persian, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, Mandarin, and other difficult or less well known languages.

Assist professor of Global History and Languages at Wilkes University looks at historical tendency towards subversive trading through lens of egg trade.

Join us for a two-day workshop co-sponsored by the Kabak Endowment Fund and the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh that focuses on gendered experiences of moving, especially the changes, challenges, and conflicts that women encounter and the ways that they address them.

The second in a series of annual UCIS professional development workshops organized for faculty and staff of community colleges in the Western Pennsylvania region with the aim of internationalizing these community college campuses. Presenters from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University will discuss admissions, orientation, academics and student life in relation to international students attending US colleges.