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Five F-1 international students from The Bahamas encourage anyone in the FSU community who is interested in supporting Hurrican Dorian relief efforts to contribute monetary donations. Four of the students are from Nassau and one is from Grand Bahama, which was one of the two most devastated locations in The Bahamas.

Shaquania Dorsett, master’s student studying public health from Grand Bahama, encourages the FSU community to make a donation through the government’s official relief efforts website: www.bahamas.com/relief.

Three FSU students who came to Tallahassee from FSU’s Republic of Panama branch campus won Modo Labs' Ideathon™ at FSU with an app they developed during the competition. The Ideathon™ is a weekend-long competition full of fun and innovation where students take their ideas and build them into an app – no coding skills necessary.

Angélique Stevens and Betty Jensen joined the CGE's staff as international student advisors in December and January, respectively. They helped welcome new international students at the CGE's orientation and have met current students during walk-in advising hours.

The Center for Global Engagement welcomed more than 124 new international students from 38 countries to campus this spring during orientation. New students had the opportunity to network and make friends, learn about FSU’s campus and resources, as well as the details of maintaining their immigration status.

Dr. Mina T. Gabor, President and Founder of the International School of Sustainable Tourism in the Philippines, will offer a public presentation on the development and current status of the International School of Sustainable Tourism as well as eco-tourism and farm tourism in the Philippines on Friday, Oct. 26, from 2-4:30 p.m. in The Globe Room 2300. Dr. Gabor's presentation will be followed by an open discussion on opportunities for collaboration with ISST for FSU faculty and students.

Apply for the Global Citizenship Certificate Scholarship by November 1 to receive a scholarship toward a Global Exchange program at one of FSU’s 40+ international partner universities.

Last week, the Center for Global Engagement, under the Division of Student Affairs, hosted a celebration in recognition of the ten-year partnership with the School of Global Japanese Studies at Meiji University located in Tokyo, Japan. 

Manfa Sanogo, a doctoral candidate from Côte d'Ivoire studying French and francophone literature, was awarded the Chateaubriand Fellowship to perform research at the University of Paris-Nanterre during the next academic year.

The Chateaubriand Fellowship is a prestigious program offered by the Embassy of France in the United States in order to foster academic exchange between scholars from France and the United States.

The Provost’s Latin America/Caribbean Merit Scholarship provided 9 new international students from St. Maarten, Nicaragua, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, and the Dominican Republic, with scholarships for one or two semesters of the 2018-2019 academic year.

Through this scholarship, the students receive a scholarship of $500 for one or two semesters and classification as a Florida resident for tuition purposes, during the semester(s) of the scholarship.

International Students Alan Febraio Parma and Veronica Quintero Carrizo performed in the FSU Flying High Circus during the 71st Annual Home Show Series this spring.

“The circus is a place of wonderment where we can bring joy to people who watch our performances,” Parma said. “But most importantly, it is a special place where I found a second family miles away from home.”