outreach

A delegation from Malaysia visited the University of Minnesota in February as part of a collaboration that aims to expand on and support Malaysia’s goal of including 75 percent of students with special education needs in mainstream classes by 2025.

Ratan Banik created the Global Online Pain Fellowship to provide anesthesiologists from low-resource settings with essential pain management training without requiring them to leave their home countries.

Construction Management senior Emily Cendejas-Garcia recounts her study abroad experience helping strengthen rural healthcare in Costa Rica—and the life-changing lessons she learned along the way.

As a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, Dr. Whitney Waldsmith travels on missions, collaborates with international partners, and leverages her veterinary knowledge for projects focused on improving the health of animals and people.

CSE student Abigail Johnson traveled to Malawi last summer to take part in an Engineers Without Borders project, where she worked to design and implement a water distribution and sanitation system at a local school. 

The Institute on Community Integration’s Renáta Tichá led a U.S. delegation of special educators, social workers, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and others to Havana, Cuba in November – in the midst of Hurricane Rafael – on a mission to understand more about the country’s special education system.

Professor Sujaya Rao's poster on entomophagy, or the practice of eating insects as food, was selected for a special session for the Imperial family of Japan.

Alejandra Perez-Enriquez and colleagues are helping communities in Costa Rica shape their own future through participatory ecological restoration.

Researchers from the College of Veterinary Medicine traveled to Islamabad, Pakistan to strengthen ongoing research collaborations focused on vector-borne disease.

Stephanie Hanson will be developing and facilitating professional development workshops for teachers of English in Costa Rica.