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Senior Scientist Position at CIFOR (Center for International Forestry Research), Indonesia

Paul Joseph — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 00:02:27 +0000

CIFOR is looking for a visionary Senior Scientist, Markets of Forest Products and Services. The Senior Scientist will work closely with relevant research staff across our programmes and research domains.

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GT-Sponsored Scholarships due Sept 8 for Spring 2011

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:51:00 +0000

Apply now for scholarships to study abroad in Spring 2011! Deadline to apply is Wednesday, September 8. GT-Sponsored Scholarships are open to undergraduate Georgia Tech students who have applied or are going to apply to study abroad in Spring 2011. There are three scholarships in one application! For further eligibility requirements and application information, please visit: http://www.oie.gatech.edu/sa/preparation/index.php#9 Student Testimonial: Dear GT Alumni Scholarship Class of 1968: Thank you for your support on the scholarship! I had a blast while studying abroad in Hong Kong, and it was quite an experience being able to learn in a different environment, experience cultural differences, meet new people, and explore various regions. Not only was I able to collaborate with the locals, I also met a lot of other students and professors there from around the world. It was pleasing to share my thoughts and culture with others and learn about others’ culture as well. There were a lot of things I had to adapt to while abroad. Among everything, transportation was the biggest difference between abroad and home. It was awesome to have such an exciting semester studying and traveling. I visited several countries and each country was special. Whether it was their food, people, or society, it was amazing. It was an unforgettable experience, and I’m glad I chose to study abroad. It was definitely a fulfilling and memorable experience I would share and recommend to friends and undergraduates and convince them not to miss a great opportunity. Thank GT Alumni Class of 1968! Thanks for your support on study abroad and exchange programs! Once again thank you for your generosity. On behalf of all recipients, thank you for supporting students at Georgia Institute of Technology. ~Allison C., Spring 2010 scholarship winner, ISYE undergraduate

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15-year-old is youngest Cambridge student in over 200 years

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:41:59 +0000

London: A 15-year-old Briton has become the youngest student to gain a place at Cambridge University for over two centuries. He has enrolled for a course that is considered one of the toughest in the world and former scholars include Isaac Newton.Arran Fernandez was educated at home by his father, N…

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Take $50 off Knewton SAT, and your October test registration fee is on us!

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:00:31 +0000

It’s Labor Day weekend. Let’s make exam day more relaxing.

Sign up with Knewton SAT by Tuesday, 9/7, to get $50 off — plus, we’ll pay your $47 SAT registration fee! Just send us your receipt when you sign up for the October exam and we’ll credit your cost of registration. That’s a total value of $97! But it won’t last long…

A sweet registration gift, plus something you can’t put a price on: total SAT confidence.

Promo code SAT-SIGNUP expires 9/7 at 11:59pm Eastern.

[via Knewton Blog]

International Photo Contest Winners

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:50:37 +0000

The many wonderful photos submitted to our Facebook International Photo Contest are testament to the power of international travel, and the deep impressions it leaves upon its travelers. Our two winners, Whitney Griffin and Sabrina Cohen, shared two amazing photos from Morocco and China respectively. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, we interviewed

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International Photo Contest Winners

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:50:37 +0000

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Astronomy workshop for UAE kids during Ramadan

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:49:03 +0000

Abu Dhabi: More than 6,000 children took part in a month-long workshop on astronomy that was organized in Abu Dhabi to encourage youngsters to learn science.The annual “Reach for the Sky” workshop conducted during Ramadan by the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy and Mubadala Aerospace also includ…

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Guest Post: Want to Have the Best Study Abroad? It’s All About Attitude

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:30:37 +0000

Kate Cunningham How to do you make the most out of your study abroad experience? When you are new to the study abroad experience, you don’t have the hindsight to know how to make the most of your international opportunity. That is why it is so important to speak to ’seasoned’ people who have studied abroad or professionals who have incorporated living abroad into their lives or professions. In today’s guest post, we learn that at the core of a healthy and fun study abroad experience is you attitude. There is an adage that says that life is 90% attitude. The same holds true for study abroad, it’s all about your attitude. This guest post is contributed by Kate Cunningham , who writes on the topics of online university rankings. Feel free to send your questions and comments to her email: cn.kate1@gmail.com . Maximizing Your Study Abroad Experience: It’s All About Attitude When I was an undergraduate, I studied abroad for a semester in Russia, a country that was as different from my where I attended university as I could possibly think of. While I tried my best to prepare myself for the trip, and even though I had traveled substantially overseas before, nothing was able to fully prepare me for the differences that I encountered. Looking back on the experience, however, I will say that it gave me a much better sense of how to effectively deal with the trials and travails that inevitably come with being in an unfamiliar place. The key to making the most of studying abroad is all contained in how you moderate your own attitude. Here are 4 tips to keep in mind on your first or next study abroad experience. 1. Never compare your home country with the visiting country. Of course, it’s only natural to base your conceptions of a foreign country on what you’ve experienced before, whether it’s your home or another country you’ve visited. This instinctive mental exercise, however, will severely limit your enjoyment of the host country. I cannot count the times my American friends and I would say, “Isn’t this ridiculous? In America, this would never happen.” Try your best to forget your previous experiences in order to have a more pure, untainted sense of what the culture is really like. 2. Don’t attribute an unpleasant occurrence to the country’s culture. Just as in your home country, when you study abroad, you’ll invariably run into a frustrating situation, made all the more frustrating by the fact that you are a foreigner. You may have encounters with a few rude people, and it’s typical to make the logical leap that your host country’s people are just “like that”. Nothing could be further from the truth. While of course, some social customs are different (for example, it’s less common for Russians to smile openly in public), rudeness is not a defined cultural trait in any country. Rudeness can be encountered anywhere, and if it happens more often in the country you’re visiting, it probably arises from a web of misconceptions or misunderstandings. 3. Get out of your comfort zone. When people are in an unfamiliar situation, they tend to gravitate to those who are most like them. During my experience, that meant being among my American peers, especially since my fairly limited academic knowledge of Russian was too shaky to start conversations and make Russian friends with ease. However, once I consciously tried to move beyond my familiar circle, I was surprised by how open my Russian peers were to accommodating me, despite the sometimes seemingly insurmountable language and cultural barriers. 4. Take your classes seriously, even if they’re easy. When students study abroad, there’s a tendency to think of the experience as an extended vacation. Of course, this attitude makes sense in some way. After all, you’ll most likely be very far away from your previous structured lifestyle and your courses may be significantly easier than your courses at your home university, many of which will count for credit but not for a grade. It’s then easy for young university students to fall into “typical” study abroad activities, like drinking heavily . That isn’t to say one shouldn’t engage in such social activities, but it can very easily be taken to an extreme, causing you to miss out on far more enriching cross-cultural encounters. Focusing on classes as if you were at home places an emphasis on study abroad as a living experience and not a trivial visiting experience. These are only a few things to keep in mind before or during your study abroad experience. While it is necessary to research the country and general traveling tips before going overseas, altering your attitude is just as important. If you don’t, you can very easily spend months or longer in a foreign country without experiencing anything substantive about another culture or place.

[via Going Global Blog]

Expatacular Tips For New & Current Expats: Stay Safe Abroad With Breadcrumb

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:07:49 +0000

Expatacular tips are about making your first or next expat move easier. Think of them as the “ Lifehacker ” for Expats. Whether you aspire to live, work or study in another country or if you are already doing that, then the word “expat” is part of your everyday language. In the most general sense, an “expat”, is anyone who is temporarily or permanently living in a country other than the one where they claim citizenship. Every week, we take a look at “expat hacks” to help you make the next transition abroad seamless. If you have any to suggest, leave them in the comments or send us a message. Today’s tip: Use Breadcrumb to stay safe abroad Hansel and Gretel h ad the right frame of mind when they decided to leave breadcrumbs along their path to the mysterious house in the forest. They knew that the breadcrumbs would be their ’saving grace’. Now, when you live, work or study abroad, you can leave a similar footprint for your personal safety with an application called Breadcrumb . They have developed a technology called an “Automatic Personnel Locator with Emergency Distress capability” that loads on a Blackberry, an iPhone, a Windows based Smartphone or other Personal Safety Devices. This allows your family and friends to know where you are and if you are safe, in real-time, while traveling abroad. Your family and friends have their own protected web portal where you share your whereabouts automatically 24 hours a day. There is an emergency “Help Me” button that notifies your loved ones if and where you are in trouble. According to their website, the application easily integrates into your social media life on Facebook and Twitter. You can also view a daily ‘breadcrumb’ trail of the location of your loved ones. They are offering the first 30 days free and a $7.95 per month with a one year contract. This seems to be a great way to put the uneasiness of sending your children to study abroad at bay. Not only is this useful for the study abroad experience, but also for any international traveling instance. This allows the traveler and the traveler’s family to always stay along the breadcrumb path of safety. To learn more about Breadcrumb, visit their website: http://www.breadcrumbmobile.com/ (Please note, Goinglobal does not directly endorse this product. This is an unbiased review of the services offered and expressed by the company.)

[via Going Global Blog]

Daytona State Employing E-Book Program

Paul Joseph — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Daytona State is going to do it beginning in January 2011; they will actually purchase a license from publishers to allow their students access to electronic versions of the texts they would otherwise go out and try to locate in print form at the best price they can find. For this service, the student s will be charged a “digital materials” fee. For it’s part the college will require publishers to make the e-books readable in multiple types of e-reader, regular computers included. After all, not everybody has a Kindle or an iPad. Since they can pretty much guarantee one e-book sale per student per class per semester, Dayton State will be able to get a pretty sizeable discount from the publishers. When you consider there are no printing costs, etc. for the publishers, you would think it would be even less, but the estimated fee as it stands is about $30 per e-book. That said, this is still a huge savings off regular e-book pricing and only about a quarter of what they would be paying for standard, new, print textbooks. Funnily enough, this practice actually originated with one of the oft-maligned “for-profit” institutions, University of Phoenix , where e-books have been in use for some time. At many schools the cost of books, while considerable, is not much in comparison to tuition, room and board at around $1,100 per student at a four year school. However, at Daytona State, a former community college that now offers some four-year degrees, textbooks can make up nearly a third of a student’s total cost of attendance. With that in mind, it’s easy to understand why such a school might give this approach a try. And it’s not like the students won’t still have a choice, either. If a student prefers a printed book they can either print the book themselves or purchase a regular print textbook and apply the digital materials fee to the purchase. Would you rather save up to $1,100 or have traditional, print textbooks? Do you think/hope your school will try a similar program? Let us know what you think about Daytona’s upcoming e-book program.

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