Global Willamette

The OIE is leaning into summer!!

We love the Portland Japanese Garden and are happy to be partners with them, so this shout out makes us very happy.

New York Times: Portland Japanese Garden One of 7 Gardens "So Serene, You Won’t Believe They’re in the City" – Portland Japanese Garden The New York Times has named Portland Japanese Garden as one of seven gardens "so serene" that some "won't believe they're in the city."

Good things are happening. 🌱

The OIE garden and adjacent plants are popping!

While the campus sleeps, the OIE garden quietly thrives.

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The first Italy Summer Program in Arezzo: Explorations in Art History and Historic Preservation is a success!

According to program faculty leader Dr. Ricardo De Mambro Santos: "Everything regarding the Summer Arezzo Program went beyond my highest expectations from an academic, scholarly, and experiential standpoint.

Along with daily lessons in Art History and Cultural Heritage, associated with a class of conversational Italian language brilliantly led by Prof. Alessandra Baroni, students had the unique opportunity to visit important art collections in Arezzo, Camaldoli, La Verna, Pisa, Florence, Monterchi, Sansepolcro, and Naples.

In many of those visits, students were welcomed and even guided by the very directors of those prestigious institutions. Additionally, thanks to our connections in those cities, students had access to facilities and areas of services which are usually not open to public audiences. This was the case of the Archives of Casa Vasari, in which we could see original letters by Michelangelo and Giorgio Vasari, with breathtaking drawings, or the visit at the historical library at the monastery of Camaldoli and the Chapel of the Artists at the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence, where are buried masters of the caliber of Benvenuto Cellini and Jacopo Pontormo.

From a scholarly standpoint, students were exposed to constant conversations on relevant art historical discourses and offered first-hand workshops, during which they were introduced to state-of-the-art methods of restoration, including a very stimulating laboratory of fresco making procedures, with each student undertaking all different stages related to 15th- and 16th-century practices of pictorial production. Not only had students gone through those complex creative processes, but also became increasingly familiar with concepts and theories connected with those productive endeavors.

Unforgettable and extremely enriching, the Arezzo Summer Program has reached all expected academic points and gone far beyond."

Thank you,Ricardo. Congratulations to this group on a successful summer program!

The first Summer Iceland study abroad program is a success!

The inaugural session of ENVS 282 - Icelandic Environments recently wrapped up! The course led students through an interdisciplinary look at environmental issues in Iceland from natural science, social science, and environmental humanities perspectives with Professors Butterworth, Hulbert, and Meyer. Through their excursions around the country students learned about glaciers, volcanoes, fjords and fisheries, forestry efforts, climate adaptation and resilience, swimming & bathing culture, historical writing, folktales, and even visited a CO2 direct air capture and carbon sequestration site! Here are a few pictures of the group’s travels and “classrooms” as they earned academic credit while having a terrific, field school experience abroad.

We’re so grateful to have had such a wonderful group of students, and can’t wait to return next year. Are you interested in summer 2027? If so, be on the lookout for info sessions this fall! Open to students in Salem and at PNCA.

Yay Emily.

Our little OIE garden in Salem is coming right along. Happy Memorial Day.

It was a glorious day of celebrations. Commencement day is everything you want. Three lovely celebrations in Salem (Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Graduate Law, and the undergraduate program) and one for PNCA, this year at the Portland Art Museum. We in the OIE are so proud of the tenacity and guts demonstrated by our international students and those students who study abroad.

Well done everyone!!