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Get the edge on adventure and advancement by traveling with UT Martin Travel Study programs! Our experienced group leaders have a full slate of unique global learning opportunities ready for you. Most of our travel comes complete with exciting activities and course credit. This may be the most unique class you ever take!

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In today’s global environment, study-abroad opportunities can give you an advantage when it comes to future employment or graduate school. UT Martin offers an extensive list of destinations, programs (ranging from 1-2 weeks to an entire semester abroad) and international internships.

UT Martin believes that study abroad offers students an excellent opportunity to experience today's world firsthand, to expand their linguistic abilities and cultural horizons, and to prepare for careers in the global economy of the 21st century. We sponsor study abroad programs at our international partner universities both during the summer and the academic year. Don't miss this chance to improve your fluency in a foreign language and to immerse yourself in the culture and traditions of your chosen host country.

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Guanajuato, Mexico

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University of Orleans, France

Lucia Florido

Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

Chuck Hammond

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Hirosaki University (Japan)

Kyoko Hammond

Hiroshima Jogakuin (Japan)

Olds College (Canada)

Craig Darroch

Takasaki City University of Economics (Japan)

Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany)

Charles Hammond

Dr. Randal Garza

Dr. David Carithers

University of News Brunswick at Saint John (Canada)

University of Orleans (France)

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Any full-time undergraduate, graduate, or TIEP student who enrolls in a travel-study or study-abroad program approved by the Travel-Study Scholarship Committee can apply. Normally, these will be programs sponsored by UTM, but students may request support for the travel-study/study-abroad programs they have developed on their own. Awards will be made primarily to students undertaking substantial travel-study projects, which will generally fall into the following categories: travel-study programs (at least one week in duration), language immersion programs (at least three weeks in duration), study-abroad programs lasting one semester or an entire academic year. The Travel-Study Scholarship Committee will consider the following criteria when making awards:

• The cost of the applicant's travel-study program
• The duration of the program
• The program itinerary (preferably out-of-state and international travel)
• The academic content of the program
• The financial need of the applicant
• The availability of other funds to support the chosen program

Requirements

Complete the application form and submit the original to the Center for Global Education and Experience, 124 Gooch Hall, by the appropriate deadline.

Important Notes

• Students are encouraged to make their travel-study plans early in the academic year and to apply for support by the most appropriate deadline. These funds, generated by the SGA Travel-Study Fee, are limited and may be significantly depleted by the spring semester.
• Before a student may receive a scholarship he/she must pay all outstanding university fees.
• Students must conform to the rules for submitting scholarship applications listed on the reverse side.
• Students should make a point of seeking additional scholarship assistance from other sources to supplement this award. Additional funds may be available from the Colleges and Departments within which they are majoring. See trip leader for additional scholarship information.
• Please understand that if you receive financial aid from this scholarship you may be asked by the SGA Committee to present at an upcoming event. This would include a presentation about your travels to help enlighten other students about the benefits of traveling while in college. Failure to comply may constitute in some of or the entire amount you are awarded to be charged to you. Also understand that we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. If you apply later you may be awarded only partial or none of the scholarship amounts due to the high interest in students traveling.
• Travel study scholarship awards funded by the SGA Committee will be applied directly to the total cost of the selected travel study experience.

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UB RENEW students travel abroad for global view of climate-resilient buildings

Jonathan Navarro-Ramos tours a flooded American University of Sharjah campus in April following unprecedented rainfall that hit the United Arab Emirates shortly after he arrived in the country. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos

Institute's NSF-funded project gives graduate students international research experience

By Tom Dinki

Release Date: June 11, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hours after Jonathan Navarro-Ramos arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a historic storm brought down more than a year’s worth of rainfall in a single day and essentially shut down large parts of the desert nation.

His timing couldn’t have been better. 

After all, Navarro-Ramos, a chemistry PhD student with the University at Buffalo RENEW Institute, was there to research how buildings can be designed to recycle stormwater and wastewater to become more resilient in the face of flooding and other climate hazards. The unprecedented rainfall and resulting deluge during his two-week stay in April allowed him to witness flood damage up close and collect samples of stormwater to test for potentially harmful chemical pollutants. 

“This experience made me more patient, accepting and resilient, and showed me how to cope with change in the best way possible,” Navarro-Ramos says.

He and other RENEW graduate students are getting the opportunity to conduct international research through the “Technologies for One Water in Extremely Resilient-buildings” (TOWER) project, which aims to design buildings adaptive to water security issues caused or worsened by climate change, from flooding and droughts to contamination and pollution. Such structures could harvest rainwater, sorb atmospheric moisture and even treat stormwater and wastewater for reuse. 

TOWER is funded by a highly competitive $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation ’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program, which supports international education, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle global issues, such as climate change and water security.

The funding has allowed some of the project’s graduate students to travel to partner institutions across the globe and study the water challenges unique to those regions. In addition to the UAE, students have traveled within the last year to Taiwan and the Philippines, with another trip planned for Costa Rica this summer. 

And their travels are already getting results. TOWER researchers co-authored a study published today (June 11) in Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) Water that assesses the open research questions and policy implications of the flooding that Navarro-Ramos experienced in the UAE.

“With global water scarcity and quality issues, there is only so much a person can understand from reading newspapers and journal articles. First-hand experiences, and the opportunity to learn from and work with local experts, can unlock intellectual vistas for graduate students,” says Diana Aga, PhD, director of RENEW and the TOWER project’s principal investigator. 

Zachary Kralles visits Yangmingshan National Park in northern Taiwan during his trip last fall. Photo: Zachary Kralles.

Networking and getting in the right mindset

Rochester native Zachary Kralles’ only international travel had been across the nearby border to Canada. 

Then his adviser, Ning Dai, PhD, associate professor of environmental engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a TOWER co-principal investigator, approached him in 2022 about spending a month living and working in Taiwan.

“It was a bit overwhelming,” Kralles says.

To prepare for the trip, Kralles connected with Taiwanese researchers at the conferences he attended in the year preceding his trip last October. In addition to his host and TOWER collaborator Yi-Hsueh Chuang, PhD, associate professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Kralles’ professional network allowed him to have connections in every region he visited, from the city of Taipei in the north to Kenting National Park on the main island’s southernmost tip.

“People there really want to go out of their way to help you and make you feel like you belong,” Kralles said.

Navarro-Ramos, who is from Corozal, Puerto Rico and had never traveled internationally, was also initially nervous. However, he persevered, thanks to coaching from his adviser, Aga, who joined him for part of the trip, and Lisa Vahapoğlu, PhD, RENEW’s education and outreach director, who provides all TOWER student travelers with a pre-trip cultural preparedness workshop. This covers everything from navigating international airports to understanding and adapting to social norms and values of the host country.

“They helped me adopt a mindset of welcoming everything and being immersed in the full experience of being there,” he says. 

He also credits his host, Fatin Samara, PhD, professor at American University of Sharjah (AUS), for making him feel at ease and welcome in the UAE. Not only is Samara a UB alumna who conducted her doctoral work under Aga, Samara also grew up in Puerto Rico.

“We had a different bond from the beginning because we share a baseline of culture. We could communicate in Spanish, for example,” Navarro-Ramos says.

Part of students’ responsibilities were surveying apartment buildings in their host countries. Here, Kralles photographed the rooftop of a dwelling in the city of Taipei. Photo: Zachary Kralles

Sleuthing through apartments and stormwater

During their trips, Navarro-Ramos and Kralles surveyed and gathered data about typical apartment buildings in their respective host countries. They took photos and measurements of everything from water towers on rooftops to reverse osmosis filters under sinks, as well as energy and design considerations of refrigerators and air conditioners.

“Some of the things that we're interested in just aren't well documented,” Kralles says. “But they are also critical to improving climate resilience.”

Navarro-Ramos surveys an apartment building in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos

The apartment complex data collected by Navarro-Ramos, Kralles and other students will inform TOWER co-principal investigator Martha Bohm, associate professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, about the unique design preferences and constraints of dwellings throughout the world.

Once analyzed, this information will also enable Bohm to design implementation strategies that are customized for a specific region’s culture and geography.

In addition to surveying buildings, both Navarro-Ramos and Kralles got to conduct lab-based work related to their specific research focuses: water quality.

Kralles studies potentially harmful byproducts formed when drinking water is disinfected with chlorine. Under the guidance of Chuang at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Kralles is using chemical kinetics modeling to quantitatively examine the formation of these byproducts, work that could help develop alternative water disinfection methods.

Navarro-Ramos, meanwhile, analyzes water samples for chemicals from road run-off and surface waters that have been shown to affect fish and other wildlife. Some of these contaminants may also create disinfection byproducts when water is chlorinated.

As he was touring AUS’ flooded campus following the region’s historic storm, it dawned on Navarro-Ramos that he had a unique opportunity to sample stormwater.

“Here I am in a country where it doesn't rain, and not only did it rain, but it rained at the highest intensity since those records started being kept 75 years ago,” he says. “I just saw the flooding and thought: This is it.”

(Left to right) Navarro-Ramos and his adviser, Aga, on the American University of Sharjah campus during their stay there in April. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos.

Analyzing stormwater runoff on the roads could yield information about potentially harmful chemicals released by floodwater, including those from the roadway residue of car tires.

“Tires in the UAE are sourced from all around the world, so their chemical composition varies quite a bit. It’s very important to know what’s in the tires because stormwater from the roads may eventually be chlorinated and used as drinking water,” Navarro-Ramos says.

The flooding in the UAE closed schools and businesses, damaged dwellings and vehicles and for almost a week disrupted the Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international travel. Four people in the country died. 

Because of its historically arid climate, the UAE does not have a good drainage system infrastructure to deal with heavy rainfalls. However, that will need to change.

A study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group found that the storm that hit the region was likely amplified by human-induced climate change.

The ramifications of these climate-intensified storms are the subject of the ES&T Water study, which was co-authored by Aga, Vahapoğlu and Samara and other AUS researchers.

“It was striking to be present for flooding that caused sewage overflows, which led to public health concerns about water quality as well as evacuation orders,” says Aga, who is also SUNY Distinguished Professor and Henry M. Woodburn chair in the UB Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences. “We witnessed clear evidence of the urgency of our research.”

Kralles reps his hometown team while visiting The Red House historic site in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo: Zachary Kralles

More travel planned

Another RENEW graduate student, John Michael Aguilar, conducted TOWER research in the Philippines last December. He and Aga also gave a workshop on mass spectrometry for environmental analysis at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, another international collaborating institution on the TOWER project.

Next, several of Bohm’s students will travel to Costa Rica for research this summer, while a student from another UB researcher and TOWER co-principal investigator, Haiqing Lin, PhD, professor of chemical and biological engineering, will visit Egypt or Saudi Arabia next year.

In addition to writing studies and disseminating findings at national meetings, the team also hopes to host international collaborators and students at UB.

As for Kralles, he’s preparing to defend his dissertation this summer before starting a postdoc position at John Hopkins University. However, following his Taiwan experience, he says he can envision one day living and working abroad.

“The experience really gave me this worldly view and helped me understand what it's like for international students to come here,” he says.

It also changed his perspective on climate change challenges.

“My understanding is from a U.S.-based perspective. Going to Taiwan let me see the problems they have that we don’t, but also how they have solved some problems that we still have."

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UB RENEW students travel abroad for global view of climate-resilient buildings

Jonathan Navarro-Ramos tours a flooded American University of Sharjah campus in April following unprecedented rainfall that hit the United Arab Emirates shortly after he arrived in the country. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos

Institute's NSF-funded project gives graduate students international research experience

By Tom Dinki

Release Date: June 11, 2024

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hours after Jonathan Navarro-Ramos arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a historic storm brought down more than a year’s worth of rainfall in a single day and essentially shut down large parts of the desert nation.

His timing couldn’t have been better. 

After all, Navarro-Ramos, a chemistry PhD student with the University at Buffalo RENEW Institute, was there to research how buildings can be designed to recycle stormwater and wastewater to become more resilient in the face of flooding and other climate hazards. The unprecedented rainfall and resulting deluge during his two-week stay in April allowed him to witness flood damage up close and collect samples of stormwater to test for potentially harmful chemical pollutants. 

“This experience made me more patient, accepting and resilient, and showed me how to cope with change in the best way possible,” Navarro-Ramos says.

He and other RENEW graduate students are getting the opportunity to conduct international research through the “Technologies for One Water in Extremely Resilient-buildings” (TOWER) project, which aims to design buildings adaptive to water security issues caused or worsened by climate change, from flooding and droughts to contamination and pollution. Such structures could harvest rainwater, sorb atmospheric moisture and even treat stormwater and wastewater for reuse. 

TOWER is funded by a highly competitive $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation ’s Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program, which supports international education, research, and interdisciplinary collaboration to tackle global issues, such as climate change and water security.

The funding has allowed some of the project’s graduate students to travel to partner institutions across the globe and study the water challenges unique to those regions. In addition to the UAE, students have traveled within the last year to Taiwan and the Philippines, with another trip planned for Costa Rica this summer. 

And their travels are already getting results. TOWER researchers co-authored a study published today (June 11) in Environmental Science and Technology (ES&T) Water that assesses the open research questions and policy implications of the flooding that Navarro-Ramos experienced in the UAE.

“With global water scarcity and quality issues, there is only so much a person can understand from reading newspapers and journal articles. First-hand experiences, and the opportunity to learn from and work with local experts, can unlock intellectual vistas for graduate students,” says Diana Aga, PhD, director of RENEW and the TOWER project’s principal investigator. 

Zachary Kralles visits Yangmingshan National Park in northern Taiwan during his trip last fall. Photo: Zachary Kralles.

Networking and getting in the right mindset

Rochester native Zachary Kralles’ only international travel had been across the nearby border to Canada. 

Then his adviser, Ning Dai, PhD, associate professor of environmental engineering in the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a TOWER co-principal investigator, approached him in 2022 about spending a month living and working in Taiwan.

“It was a bit overwhelming,” Kralles says.

To prepare for the trip, Kralles connected with Taiwanese researchers at the conferences he attended in the year preceding his trip last October. In addition to his host and TOWER collaborator Yi-Hsueh Chuang, PhD, associate professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Kralles’ professional network allowed him to have connections in every region he visited, from the city of Taipei in the north to Kenting National Park on the main island’s southernmost tip.

“People there really want to go out of their way to help you and make you feel like you belong,” Kralles said.

Navarro-Ramos, who is from Corozal, Puerto Rico and had never traveled internationally, was also initially nervous. However, he persevered, thanks to coaching from his adviser, Aga, who joined him for part of the trip, and Lisa Vahapoğlu, PhD, RENEW’s education and outreach director, who provides all TOWER student travelers with a pre-trip cultural preparedness workshop. This covers everything from navigating international airports to understanding and adapting to social norms and values of the host country.

“They helped me adopt a mindset of welcoming everything and being immersed in the full experience of being there,” he says. 

He also credits his host, Fatin Samara, PhD, professor at American University of Sharjah (AUS), for making him feel at ease and welcome in the UAE. Not only is Samara a UB alumna who conducted her doctoral work under Aga, Samara also grew up in Puerto Rico.

“We had a different bond from the beginning because we share a baseline of culture. We could communicate in Spanish, for example,” Navarro-Ramos says.

Part of students’ responsibilities were surveying apartment buildings in their host countries. Here, Kralles photographed the rooftop of a dwelling in the city of Taipei. Photo: Zachary Kralles

Sleuthing through apartments and stormwater

During their trips, Navarro-Ramos and Kralles surveyed and gathered data about typical apartment buildings in their respective host countries. They took photos and measurements of everything from water towers on rooftops to reverse osmosis filters under sinks, as well as energy and design considerations of refrigerators and air conditioners.

“Some of the things that we're interested in just aren't well documented,” Kralles says. “But they are also critical to improving climate resilience.”

Navarro-Ramos surveys an apartment building in the United Arab Emirates. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos

The apartment complex data collected by Navarro-Ramos, Kralles and other students will inform TOWER co-principal investigator Martha Bohm, associate professor of architecture in the UB School of Architecture and Planning, about the unique design preferences and constraints of dwellings throughout the world.

Once analyzed, this information will also enable Bohm to design implementation strategies that are customized for a specific region’s culture and geography.

In addition to surveying buildings, both Navarro-Ramos and Kralles got to conduct lab-based work related to their specific research focuses: water quality.

Kralles studies potentially harmful byproducts formed when drinking water is disinfected with chlorine. Under the guidance of Chuang at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Kralles is using chemical kinetics modeling to quantitatively examine the formation of these byproducts, work that could help develop alternative water disinfection methods.

Navarro-Ramos, meanwhile, analyzes water samples for chemicals from road run-off and surface waters that have been shown to affect fish and other wildlife. Some of these contaminants may also create disinfection byproducts when water is chlorinated.

As he was touring AUS’ flooded campus following the region’s historic storm, it dawned on Navarro-Ramos that he had a unique opportunity to sample stormwater.

“Here I am in a country where it doesn't rain, and not only did it rain, but it rained at the highest intensity since those records started being kept 75 years ago,” he says. “I just saw the flooding and thought: This is it.”

(Left to right) Navarro-Ramos and his adviser, Aga, on the American University of Sharjah campus during their stay there in April. Photo: Jonathan Navarro-Ramos.

Analyzing stormwater runoff on the roads could yield information about potentially harmful chemicals released by floodwater, including those from the roadway residue of car tires.

“Tires in the UAE are sourced from all around the world, so their chemical composition varies quite a bit. It’s very important to know what’s in the tires because stormwater from the roads may eventually be chlorinated and used as drinking water,” Navarro-Ramos says.

The flooding in the UAE closed schools and businesses, damaged dwellings and vehicles and for almost a week disrupted the Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airport for international travel. Four people in the country died. 

Because of its historically arid climate, the UAE does not have a good drainage system infrastructure to deal with heavy rainfalls. However, that will need to change.

A study by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group found that the storm that hit the region was likely amplified by human-induced climate change.

The ramifications of these climate-intensified storms are the subject of the ES&T Water study, which was co-authored by Aga, Vahapoğlu and Samara and other AUS researchers.

“It was striking to be present for flooding that caused sewage overflows, which led to public health concerns about water quality as well as evacuation orders,” says Aga, who is also SUNY Distinguished Professor and Henry M. Woodburn chair in the UB Department of Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences. “We witnessed clear evidence of the urgency of our research.”

Kralles reps his hometown team while visiting The Red House historic site in Taipei, Taiwan. Photo: Zachary Kralles

More travel planned

Another RENEW graduate student, John Michael Aguilar, conducted TOWER research in the Philippines last December. He and Aga also gave a workshop on mass spectrometry for environmental analysis at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, another international collaborating institution on the TOWER project.

Next, several of Bohm’s students will travel to Costa Rica for research this summer, while a student from another UB researcher and TOWER co-principal investigator, Haiqing Lin, PhD, professor of chemical and biological engineering, will visit Egypt or Saudi Arabia next year.

In addition to writing studies and disseminating findings at national meetings, the team also hopes to host international collaborators and students at UB.

As for Kralles, he’s preparing to defend his dissertation this summer before starting a postdoc position at John Hopkins University. However, following his Taiwan experience, he says he can envision one day living and working abroad.

“The experience really gave me this worldly view and helped me understand what it's like for international students to come here,” he says.

It also changed his perspective on climate change challenges.

“My understanding is from a U.S.-based perspective. Going to Taiwan let me see the problems they have that we don’t, but also how they have solved some problems that we still have."

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Cicada map 2024: See where to find Broods XIII and XIX; latest info on emergence

If you haven't seen them yet, you may have heard them: the periodical cicadas that are out in full force in nearly 20 U.S. states across the Southeast and Midwest.

These 17 states, which range from Oklahoma to Wisconsin to North Carolina and more, are seeing the trillions of cicadas emerging this year in a rare, double brood event.

The two broods this year, the 13-year Brood XIX located mainly in the Southeast and the 17-year Brood XIII in the Midwest, have not emerged together in 221 years and are not expected to do so again until 2245.

Thanks to warm soil temperatures and ideal conditions, cicadas from both broods have already made their way above ground and the emergence is already in full swing.

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2024 cicada map: Check out where Broods XIII, XIX are projected to emerge

The two cicada broods were projected to emerge in a combined 17 states across the South and Midwest. They emerge once the soil eight inches underground reaches 64 degrees, beginning in many states in April and May and lasting through late June.

The two broods  last emerged together in 1803 , when Thomas Jefferson was president.

Where are the cicadas already out in 2024?

Adult periodical cicadas from Brood XIX are now completing its emergence as the brood is out in full force in states across the Midwest and Southeast, according to  Cicada Safari , a cicada tracking app developed by Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

They have been spotted on the app in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

Brood XIII has started to emerge in Wisconsin, Iowa and Indiana and throughout the Chicago area and around central and northern Illinois around Peoria and Champaign, according to the tracking service.

What is a brood?

According to the  University of Connecticut , broods are classified as "all periodical cicadas of the same life cycle type that emerge in a given year."

A brood of cicadas is made up of different species of the insect that have separate evolutionary histories. These species may have joined the brood at different times or from different sources. These different species are lumped together under the brood because they are in the same region and emerge on a common schedule.

How long will the cicadas be above ground?

How long cicadas live depends on their brood and if they are an annual or periodical species.

The two periodical broods this summer are Brood XIX, which have a 13-year life cycle, and Brood XIII, which have a 17-year life cycle.

Once male and female periodical cicadas have mated and the latter has laid its eggs, the insects will die after spending only a few weeks above ground − anywhere from three to six weeks after first emerging.

That means many of this year's periodical cicadas are set to die in June, though some could die off in late May or July, depending on when they emerged.

The nymphs of annual cicadas remain underground for  two to five years , according to the Missouri Department of Conservation. These cicadas are called " annual " because some members of the species emerge as adults each year.

Why do cicadas make so much noise?

You'll have to thank the male cicadas for all that screeching. Male cicadas synchronize their calls and produce congregational songs, according to  Britannica , which establish territory and attract females. There is also a courting call that they make before mating.

The periodical 13-year and 17-year brood cicadas  are the loudest , partially because of the sheer number of them that emerge at once.

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