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Gender workshop expands awareness
Do men and women spend time differently? Workshop participants use pieces of candy to represent hours in a day in an exercise to determine how they spend their time and to reflect on whether such use of time is gendered. Read article here |
The Office of International Research, Education, and Development (OIRED) oversees the education abroad program at Virginia Tech and manages donor-funded collaborative research projects around the world. The office also manages the Graduate Certificate in International Research, the Fulbright Program for Faculty, and the Peace Corps on-campus recruitment program.
Education Abroad
Education Abroad sends more than 900
students overseas annually in a range of
programs. The office provides counseling
for both students and parents in
financial aid, credit transfer, and how
to fit education abroad into a 4-year
college curriculum that may already seem
tight. In any given year, Tech students
study abroad in as many as 40 countries.
Donor-Funded Collaborative Research
With a research grant portfolio of over
$46 million in 44 countries around the
globe--from Nepal to Uganda to
Bolivia--OIRED manages projects in
forestry and natural resource
management, integrated pest management,
sustainable agriculture, watershed
management, capacity-building in
education, and micro-enterprise
development. Most projects are funded by
USAID, and all have a strong gender
component. Project activities include
such things as working to ensure food
security in Ethiopia and reducing the
use of harmful pesticides in the
Caribbean.
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- SMALL GRANTS FOR NEW FACULTY INITIATIVES
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Other Links
- INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM OVERVIEW
- FULBRIGHT
- PEACE CORPS
- PHI BETA DELTA
- VISA INFORMATION
- MOU DATABASE
- WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- OUTREACH AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS