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Articles by Jack Mullarkey
Outside their bubble
Whitesell called it one of the hardest things she’d ever done — even harder than nursing school — and said reaching the top left her sobbing with pride. “The whole trip taught me to get outside my comfort zone and that being uncomfortable helps you grow,” Whitesell said. Goodwin, who taught a popular course on happiness at UD and wove lessons throughout their time in South Africa, has one major goal for everyone on the trip: that they come out better people.
Around the world this winter
Eleven UD students got a crash course in sustainable development up close and personal to Patagonia’s snow-capped mountains, volcanoes, glaciers and dazzling blue lakes. UD students expand academic and cultural horizons through immersive Winter Session study abroad programs From interning at fashion companies “down under” to getting a crash course in sustainable development in Patagonia, nearly 1,000 University of Delaware students explored all corners of the globe this Winter Session.
National honor for World Scholars
Students in UD’s World Scholars Program begin their undergraduate careers studying abroad at one of five partner universities in Rome, Italy; Madrid, Spain; Athens, Greece; Auckland, New Zealand; or Newcastle, United Kingdom. Pictured are students in Athens during the fall 2025 semester.
Blue Hens break global education scholarship record
“Coming from a financially unstable background, studying abroad once felt completely out of reach for me,” he said. “I believed it was something meant for others, not someone like me. However, fate had other plans, and the Gilman Scholarship made what once felt impossible attainable. I would tell students not to let fear, doubt, or financial concern stop them from applying.
Human geography in Bangladesh
Driven from their homes, many move to Chittagong, a port city with a thriving garment industry.
Researching rare earth elements
Rare earth elements (REEs) are becoming increasingly important in electronic gadgets used in day-to-day life, yet the natural sources and sinks of REEs are largely understudied. In the summer of 2025, a group of researchers from the University of Delaware co-led a research expedition to the Labrador Sea to quantify the amount of REEs that come out from the ocean bottom.
Bridging cultures through knowledge
For Alex Dwornikowski, the 2025 Fulbright U.S. Student Program is a chance to experience something new in the place where his life began. The University of Delaware alumnus was born in Kazakhstan, adopted as an infant, raised in the United States and is now set to embark on a 10-month English teaching assistantship journey in his native country.
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Alyssa Sanchez-Ibañez, a first-generation senior studying computer science with a minor in Spanish, used this prestigious scholarship to continue her Spanish studies at an advanced level in Granada, Spain, during the 2025 Summer Session. During the program, she lived in a homestay where she could practice her speaking skills with locals, allowing her to apply what she has learned in UD’s classrooms to the real world.
Alpine garden intern
UD junior Jackson Fox spent the summer at Betty Ford Alpine Gardens in Colorado planting, watering and learning how to maintain gardens in a high altitude, alpine environment. UD landscape architecture student gets hands-on experience with Colorado horticulture A summer in the Rocky Mountains helped Jackson Fox take his gardening and landscape skills to new heights, elevating his green thumb.
A global showcase
When marine science major Sally Bornhorst studied abroad for the spring semester in Denmark, her Polar Biology class went on an excursion to arctic Norway to experience many of the things they had learned about in the classroom, including native communities and their ways of life. While there, the group learned about Sámi culture and the native reindeer herders, and reindeer’s adaptations to living in the arctic. They then got to meet and feed the reindeer, a highlight of the trip.
From campus to the world
As a leader of study abroad for over 100 years, the University of Delaware’s programs have had long-lasting impacts on over 40,000 Blue Hens. The significance of studying abroad for students is undeniable, but it can also be life-changing for the faculty members who plan and lead these programs.
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