The Global Buffs Gazette: Spring 2020

Education Abroad in the Time of the Coronavirus  by Sylvie Burnet-Jones

We hope you and your families are safe in these troubled times and will enjoy the Global Buffs stories in this edition of your Global Buffs Gazette: Jeff Risom found his dream job when he returned to Denmark; Andrew Stromberg’s program was brutally interrupted by Coronavirus; Rachel Kois was inspired by her program to create her own online marketplace; Monique Duvoisin was the “heart and soul of CU's exchange with the University of Bordeaux for decades” .... Read More

Turning Education Abroad Lessons into Real Global Impact by Rachel Kois

While studying at CU Boulder, I knew I wanted to find a way to go abroad as part of my college experience. Though as a double major in Theatre Performance and Business Management, I was always really busy with class and thought a semester abroad wouldn’t fit into my four year plan. Luckily, I found the Entrepreneurship & Empowerment Global Seminar (EESA) that allowed me to go to South Africa for six weeks the summer of 2015 between my junior and senior years.... Read More

Designing from Colorado to Copenhagen by Keira Hook (Education Abroad Peer Advisor, 2019-2020), Moriah Maron (Education Abroad Program Manager), and Sylvie Burnet-Jones (Global Buffs Gazette Editor)

Jeff Risom (Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark - Fall 1999) is the ultimate CU Boulder education abroad success story. Growing up in Colorado, he had never traveled outside of North America and didn’t have a passport until he started exploring study abroad options, now he has worked in Copenhagen for twenty years in his dream field.... Read More

A Tale of Cappuccinos and Coronavirus by Keira Hook 

Study abroad is supposed to be filled with adventure, and the unknown. For Spring 2020 students, it was more unexpected than they could have imagined. Andrew Stromberg (Global Buff, IES Milan Business in Italy - Spring 2020) recently shared tales of his shortened time abroad, his experience with coronavirus, and the lessons learned.... Read More

In Memoriam: Monique Duvoisin – Bordeaux Exchange Program  

The Education Abroad office remembers Mlle. Monique Duvoisin, the “heart and soul” of the CU Boulder Bordeaux exchange program in France. Beginning in 1969, Mlle. Duvoisin worked for twenty years with the nearly 1,000 CU students who studied at the Université de Bordeaux. She wore many hats, from housing director, to counselor, to academic advisor, to mailman. She cared deeply for the students.... Read More

Global Buffs Q&A Featuring EA’s Peer Advisors/Graduates  

In the midst of a global pandemic, we had the lovely opportunity to catch up with a few of our more recent abroad alumni/CU graduates, who also happen to be former Education Abroad advisors from the 2018-19 school year. We asked them a few questions about their abroad experiences and what they are up to now, a year out from finishing their time at CU....  Read More 

Global Buffs receive Fulbright awards

Half of the students who received a prestigious Fulbright award this year are Global Buffs: Erica Ursich (on the photo) attended the Global Seminar: Conservation Biology & Practice in Brazil's Atlantic Forest in Summer 2019 and the Global Seminar: Ecology & Evolution in the Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) in  winter 2017-2018. With her Fulbright, she will explore snake conservation in the endangered Brazilian Atlantic rain forest.... Read More