Grant Dillard Contributing Writer gdillard@murraystate.edu Murray State senior art major Eriko Whittaker has been accepted into the highly competitive Fulbright Student program to research in Germany next year. Whittaker was supposed to leave in September, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic she is now set to leave in January 2021. During the application process last Read More
Column by John Muenzberg, Lecturer of philosophy This semester I have been teaching Murray State students in Regensburg, Germany. As part of the program, we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. Dachau was used to imprison political, social and ethic enemies of the Nazi government. Like many such camps, the prisoners were slaves, forced to work to Read More
After more than nine years of service with the Murray State study abroad program in Regensburg, Germany, John Griffin, director of the program, is retiring. Working as an adjunct German professor for the University in the 1980s, Griffin taught abroad in Bregenz, Austria before the Regensburg program was created. When the first director backed out Read More
When Paige Dale, junior from Bowling Green, Ky., studied abroad last year, the experience gave her a different perspective on what life is like in another country. “I broadened my world view during my semester abroad,” Dale said. “I loved being able to experience a different culture.” Dale said the experience made her more mature, Read More
As the Study Abroad program is seeing low enrollment for the Regensburg, Germany excursion planned for the fall semester, they are forced to push back the application deadline. Last fall, 18 students were accepted by the Study Abroad office to go on the Regensburg trip. So far, they have only accepted nine applicants for this Read More