President Thrasher held a small reception in his office on Wednesday, February 22, to officially welcome Gholamreza Amirinia back to FSU’s campus.
Amirinia, Civil and Environmental Engineering Doctoral Candidate with the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, was unable to renew his student visa because he was visiting his home country of Iran when the Executive Order impacting travel from seven countries was signed.
Roee Ben Sira, globally acclaimed composer, arranger, ethnomusicologist, and pianist from Israel, will be featured in FSU’s Rainbow Concert of World Music, one of the country’s largest higher education world music programs, on Tuesday, February 28.
Ben Sira is an internationally renowned contemporary master of Brazilian choro music, an instrumental genre with origins from 19thcentury Rio de Janeiro. Choro is the musical intersection of upbeat samba, bossa nova, jazz, and classical, truly making it world music.
Florida State University Athletics and the Center for Global Engagement invite students to come out and show their support for the FSU women’s basketball team and international student athletes at the FSU vs. Wake Forest game on Thursday, February 9, 2017, at 7 p.m.
Here are some fun facts about our current international team members.
Iho Lopez from Blanes, Spain (#22 – Forward)
Florida State University is hosting two higher education masters students from the University of the West Indies (UWI) for a six-week internship in the Division of Student Affairs.
The international students, Ann Clement-Kirton and Liana Coggins, are interning in the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement and the Center for Global Engagement, respectively. The internship will provide them with practical experience and learning opportunities in a university setting as one of their final requirements before receiving their master’s degree.
The Center for Global Engagement recently welcomed 10 new incoming exchange students who will attend FSU for the Spring 2017 semester. FSU received 43 incoming exchange students during this academic year. Of these new students, several are from FSU’s newest global exchange partner universities: University of Macau; Hong Kong Baptist University; and Sungkyunkwan University. Students also joined us from existing partnerships with University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Oldenburg University, Germany; Hanyang University, South Korea; and University of Perugia, Italy.
Thursday, January 5, the Center for Global Engagement welcomed more than 100 new international students from 31 countries. Our new students join Florida State University's more than 2,400 international students from 125 different countries and areas.
This semester students came from countries such as Panama, India, China, Venezuela, Iran, and Columbia, and top fields of study include finance; electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering; computer science; sports management; and economics.
