by Virginia O'Connor | Aug 26, 2026 | Academics, Europe, UC Riverside
By Wayne Dewing (UC Riverside) Just two years ago, if you told me I would soon be nearly fluent in German and living in Berlin for a year, I wouldn’t have given it a second thought. I study neuroscience. I want to be a research scientist. I don’t have a...
by Virginia O'Connor | Aug 19, 2026 | Personal Growth, UCLA
By Stacey Valentin (UC Los Angeles), winner of the 2025 Blog Writing Contest Editor’s Note: Did you know you can study abroad before your very first quarter or semester on a UC campus? Stacey participated in a special UCEAP pre-freshman Global Start program in...
by Virginia O'Connor | Aug 17, 2026 | News and Announcements
We have some exciting news to share with the UC community! The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) has been named a finalist for the prestigious 2026 PIEoneer Awards. Often referred to as the “Oscars of international education,” the...
by Virginia O'Connor | Aug 12, 2026 | Europe, Personal Growth, UC Santa Cruz
By Terra Alvarez (UC Santa Cruz), winner of the 2025 Blog Writing Contest Growing up in East Los Angeles, traveling beyond Mexico was considered a dream. For most people around me, Mexico was the furthest place our families’ stories reached. Anything beyond that felt...
by Virginia O'Connor | Jun 30, 2026 | Asia, Personal Growth, UC Berkeley
by Clark Boyce (UC Berkeley), studied abroad in Singapore Everyone goes into studying abroad with their own plans, expectations, and questions. Will I find friends when I get there? Will I like the food? What will my living situation be like? How hard will the classes...
