outreach

The Our People, Our Climate project is both an artistic showcase and skills development program focusing on the visualization of climate change in Arctic locations.

PhD candidate Sayan Bhattacharya raised emergency funds for the transgender and non-binary communities in India amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Educators at the University of Minnesota Extension virtually mentored four fellows in the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative. 

In a new collaboration, the Institute on Community Integration will study the employment gap for people with disabilities in Japan and create customized tools that promote meaningful employment and the social inclusion.

It was a most unusual summer project for two students at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs—spanning two continents, 10 time zones, and an ocean—to deliver important public health information about the coronavirus pandemic to an isolated island population in Kenya.

Despite the pandemic, the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition's annual Summer Institute Program had its best year ever in 2020! CARLA offered 14 institutes and had over 400 participants–more than in any year since the program was launched in 1996.

The Institute on Community Integration's Check & Connect has signed a 10-year licensing agreement with New Zealand’s Ministry of Education to adapt the popular dropout prevention program’s core implementation manual as part of the country’s positive behavior support initiatives.

Since 2009, over 61,000 people have disappeared in Mexico with little to no investigation into what happened. The unsupported explanation is that these disappearances were solely connected to fights between drug cartels. University of Minnesota Human Rights Program Director Barbara Frey is helping reveal what really happened to these disappeared people.

For more than six years, under several programs funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, the Institute on Community Integration has worked to leverage the best of both nations’ strengths in creating more inclusive schools. 

What started as an act of post-war technical aid led to the fondly known “sister relationship” between the University of Minnesota and Seoul National University (SNU) beginning in the mid-1950s.