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A Rwandan Police Officer Journeys From Kigali to Ƶ Ƶ, Earns His Degree and Returns Home to Pay It Forward
Feb. 19, 2026
In December 2025, Francis Rubagumya, 37, walked across the stage at Ƶ Ƶ's commencement with a Master of Arts in Teaching English as a Second Language — and a plan to take every lesson he had learned back to the country he loves Rwanda.
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Global Education Director Shares ‘Life-changing’ Experience of Studying Abroad
Feb. 9, 2026
Marcello Fantoni, Ph.D., vice president for global education and interim dean of the Honors College at Ƶ, was recently featured on WAKR Radio’s “Ray Horner Morning Show” to discuss the education-abroad programs, student support and his life-changing…
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Stitching Together a Global Fashion Tapestry
Feb. 9, 2026
Ƶ Ƶ's School of Fashion is on track to be the university's first worldwide program — and its most ambitious expansion yet is taking root in Kigali, Rwanda, where Ƶ Ƶ will establish the only American university-level fashion school on the entire continent of Africa.
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Agents of Change: Ƶ Ƶ’s Design Innovation Initiative Trains Brazilian Educators
June 26, 2025
A group of school administrators from Brazil recently completed the 10-day Design Innovation Change Agent Workshop at Ƶ’s Design Innovation Hub, where they immersed themselves in design innovation techniques as they endeavor to innovate their school system at…
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A Hop, Skip and 5,000 Miles to Ƶ Ƶ
April 25, 2025
If you look into the stands of the Memorial Athletic and Convocation Center during a Ƶ Ƶ women's basketball game, you’ll find a mother-daughter pair of students from Brazil cheering with all their might. Five thousand miles from home, Hetty and Fernanda have found new…
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Ƶ Ƶ Working to Bring Fashion and Aeronautics to Rwanda
Jan. 22, 2025
Ƶ’s partnership with the African nation of Rwanda continues to blossom with the School of Fashion, the College of Aeronautics and Engineering and the College of Arts and Sciences all working to add program partnerships in Rwanda.
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Cultural Flavors Shine Bright on Ƶ Ƶ's First Snowy Night
Nov. 22, 2024
As the first light snow of the season fell on Ƶ, the Student Center Ballroom radiated warmth and camaraderie during the International Cook-Off Competition. The event, part of International Education Week, brought together hundreds of students, faculty and…
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Pacifique Niyonzima, M.Ed. '19
June 27, 2024
Pacifique Niyonzima, M.Ed. ’19, finds new opportunities for students through partnership between his alma mater and home country.
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Taking in the Sights, Sounds and Tastes of Rwanda
July 17, 2023
Over the past several weeks, Ƶ faculty and staff, along with a select group of students, have traveled to Kigali, Rwanda, taking part in a host of educational programs and cultural exchange.
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Telling the Story: Conversations Become a Powerful Peace Education Tool
July 13, 2023
A trio of Ƶ students took the lessons they learned on an education-abroad trip to Colombia last year and used them as a framework for promoting peace education practices at a global peace conference in Kigali, Rwanda.
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