Media Stories

2010

August 16, 2010
Fremont woman spends semester at sea
"Liz Pimper of Fremont found the world to be both bigger and smaller than she expected."

August 6, 2010
Student travels, studies in Mediterranean
"Dear Mom, Dad and Noelle,
I’m somewhere off the coast of Libya. We left Egypt two days ago and we travel really slow to accommodate all the class days."

August 4, 2010
Floating Classroom
Each year, more Western Kentucky University students take advantage of a growing number of opportunities to study abroad.

July 28, 2010
Student finds beauty, heartache in trip around the world
After a brief stop in Hawaii, Abby Yeomans was ready to make her first foreign port of call.

July 1, 2010
Where Are They Now? - Sandra Day O’Connor
By some measures, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is working harder than she did when she was on the nation’s highest court. The law allows retired justices to continue working as judges on lower federal courts, and O’Connor has enthusiastically thrown herself into that. She travels around the country, filling in when appellate judges are on vacation or seats are vacant.

June 9, 2010
Allegheny Professor to Speak at Semester at Sea’s Global Engagement Forum
MEADVILLE, Pa. – Allegheny College Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science Michael Maniates will speak at the Forum on Global Engagement, Semester at Sea’s upcoming voyage examining international issues. From June 10-14, Maniates will join retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, civil rights leader Julian Bond and other notable historians, activists and global thought leaders who are gathering to address critically important international issues.

June 2, 2010
Sandra Day O'Connor, Julian Bond to Tackle Critical Issues Aboard Semester at Sea's Forum on Global Engagement
Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and civil rights icon Julian Bond, a University of Virginia history professor, will join notable historians, activists and global thought-leaders to address some of today's most critical issues as part of the upcoming Forum on Global Engagement, Semester at Sea's four-day voyage examining international issues.

June 2, 2010
Global Forum to Feature Julian Bond, Sandra Day O'Connor
Newswise — Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and civil rights icon Julian Bond will join a group of notable historians, activists, and global thought leaders to address some of today’s most critical issues as part of the Forum on Global Engagement, Semester at Sea’s dynamic four-day voyage examining international issues.

April 8, 2010
Smyrna student takes voyage around the world
Amanda English of Smyrna recently finished a “journey of a lifetime” and she’s only 19!

2009

December 14, 2009
College students return after semester-at-sea journey
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS 8) - Hundreds of college students are back on solid ground after a semester-long journey around the world.

November 19, 2009
All aboard! University's Semester At Sea program celebrates its 100th voyage
For more than four decades, the University's Semester at Sea program has changed the way students see the world. This semester is no exception.

November 19, 2009
U.Va. Librarian Composes Musical Ode to Semester at Sea's 100th Voyage
Semester at Sea is making its 100th voyage this fall and University of Virginia librarian and composer Fred O'Bryant has written a concert march to commemorate the occasion.

November 13, 2009
Honors student spends semester sailing the seas
Varner decided to spend the semester half way across the globe along with other college students while sailing the seas.

November 10, 2009
Over 550 U.S. College Students To Port In China On Historic Voyage Around The World
More than 550 students from the US and other nations will arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow morning, 11 November, as part of the Semester at Sea shipboard study-abroad program for a two-day stay in Hong Kong, before continuing on to Shanghai for an additional two days of exploring China from November 15-16. This is Semester at Sea's 100th voyage, making it an important landmark in the program's history, and China is one of the final countries on the program's impressive 108-day itinerary.

November 9, 2009
Interview with FGCU student Dan Polulak
Video Interview with FGCU student Dan Polulak

November 2, 2009
The "Semester at Sea" Visits Chennai
A day of intercation with this unique global education and travel programme and educationists associated with it compels one to dwell on inclusive education.

October 30, 2009
Rochester Junior Wins Scholarship for Study Abroad Semester at Sea
Eric Phamdo, a junior majoring in psychology with a minor in biology at the University of Rochester, has been awarded the Semester at Sea Diversity Abroad Scholarship. Phamdo is the second Rochester student to receive this scholarship and is one of only five students chosen from a national pool of applicants. Phamdo will spend the spring 2010 semester enrolled in the Semester at Sea program studying in 8 countries, including Ghana, Brazil, and South Africa. The Diversity Abroad Scholarship will help Phamdo offset approximately 50 percent of the program's cost.

September 16, 2009
Spending a semester at sea
Starting a new school year can be exciting for college students, and for 510 of them, it could be the experience of a lifetime. WVTF's Sandy Hausman reports on a unique educational program for young adults in search of adventure. It's sponsored by the University of Virginia but participants come from all over the country.

August 26, 2009
Semester at Sea Program to Celebrate 100th Global Voyage
The Semester at Sea study-abroad program, widely recognized for educating individuals for leadership, service and success in shaping our interdependent world, will set sail on its 100th voyage Friday from Halifax, Nova Scotia.

August 20, 2009
Rice professor named dean of historic voyage
Iammarino to set sail for Semester at Sea
Rice University's Nicholas Iammarino will sail into the history books this fall when he serves as executive dean of the 100th voyage of Semester at Sea. Departing next week from Nova Scotia, Iammarino and about 700 students will travel around the world before returning to San Diego Dec. 14.

August 20, 2009
View From The Hill
Imagine heading off to college on a ship. Instead of settling in on a campus, you would visit eleven countries in just over 100 days.

July 20, 2009
New Academic Officer Is Hired to Make 'Semester at Sea' Ship Shape.
Rosalyn W. Berne knows that in her new job, she will gather a faculty of about 30 people only to watch it float away. She knows that if she is going to keep track of her employees, she will have to fly to exotic ports in Morocco, Turkey, and Vietnam.

May 25, 2009
Semester at Sea sails off for 100th voyage
With the theme of "Globalization and The Post American/Flat World," the Semester at Sea program will sail off for its 100th voyage this fall.

April 30, 2009
Lifelong Learning at Sea: Take Part in an Unforgettable Voyage.
Travel across the ocean on one of the fastest, safest, and most technologically advanced ships afloat. Visit archaeological sites, museums, orphanages, and rural villages around the world. Share your travel and life experiences with a diverse community of students, faculty, and fellow world travelers. Does all of this sound intriguing to you?

April 6, 2009
Semester at Sea launches program to focus on Chinese-American relations.
Semester at Sea, a University-sponsored study abroad program, announced a new curriculum and program that will focus on past and future Chinese-American relations in a Thursday ceremony in Hong Kong.

April 2, 2009
U.Va. Embarks on New Semester at Sea Program Focusing on China-U.S. Relations.
A new Semester at Sea program designed to engage and develop the next generation of Chinese and American leaders is being unveiled today in Shanghai by the University of Virginia and the Institute for Shipboard Education.

April 2, 2009
More college students study abroad, grow at home.
University of San Diego junior Chase O'Byrne wanted to see the world rather than read about it, so he signed up for a Semester at Sea and set sail from Nassau last summer.

March 6, 2009
Painting a New Life for Slum Children.
CHENNAI: For the 450-odd students of Ananthanayaki Primary School, nested amid the shanty town of Vyasarpadi in north Chennai locality, it was nothing less than a pleasant surprise to have foreign students among them.

February 2, 2009
Green Business Schools Gain Traction.
Sustainability and green initiatives are riding a wave of popularity in society, among businesses, in graduate business schools, and increasingly at undergraduate business programs, where bright-eyed future business leaders are being asked to save the world.

January 19, 2009
So Long, SMU. Hello, World.
Imagine textbooks that come to life, a passport in exchange for a student ID, a ship for residents' halls and the world as a campus.

January 13, 2009
All Students on deck. Floating school great high seas experience.
It's not every day that I'm content to be referred to as "the spouse," but aboard the Explorer, it turned out to be the best position.

January 1, 2009
Not Enough (PDF)
In 1873 French author Jules Verne published Around the World in Eighty Days, the adventurous tale of an English gentleman and his French valet who circumnavigate the globe in 80 days by train, steam ship, and elephant. Their trip begins in London and includes stops in Suez, Bombay, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Yokohama, San Francisco, and New York. The journey certainly provided the pair with an education in international travel. Today their itinerary—minus the elephants—resembles those offered by global education abroad programs such as Semester at Sea.

2008

August 3, 2008
The Joy of Being Gone.
It wasn't that long ago that the concept of "being away" meant what it said. People left the faces and places of normal daily life for something completely different. Completely different, in fact, was the whole point.

June 6, 2008
Semester at Sea -- Not Just for the College Kids.
Semester at Sea is known as a seafaring program for college kids, but did you realize that lots of adults take advantage of this unique cruising option too?

May 16, 2008
Semester at Sea Big at Pitt
When searching for opportunities to study abroad, many students look to programs based in cities around the world, such as Rome, Paris or Buenos Aires. There is another option, however, that students should know about as well.

January 21, 2008
Longview native gains new perspective through Semester at Sea
Laura Wells spent the first half of her junior year in college walking the Great Wall of China, dodging motorbikes in Saigon and touring Hiroshima.

2007

December 22 2007
U Mary Student Studies at Sea
Can you imagine going to college on a ship? One local student gets a chance to study abroad and afloat..

December 1, 2007
Following His Course: Les McCabe, ’80, president of the Institute for Shipboard Education, lives the belief that ships can carry more than cargo
For many, it takes years – or even decades – to determine what it is one wants to do with his or her life. For Les McCabe, it took a fleeting moment, a single glimpse at a cruise ship and his course couldn’t have been clearer.

November 26, 2007
Students Praise Floating Classroom, Lessons Learned in Faraway Lands
Halle Schlather had heard about apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Cambodia, but only after she saw the “Whites Only” signs and walked by human bones left to rot did she understand the suffering in those countries.

October 25, 2007
Beyond the Corner: Seven Years After Commission Report, International Programs Thriving at U.Va
Seven years ago, the University of Virginia's 2020 Commission on International Activities laid the groundwork for a greater emphasis on U.Va.'s International Studies program. International programs, argued the commission, are a unique vehicle through which U.Va. students and faculty are able to extend and challenge themselves as students and as people.

October 21, 2007
Nobel Winner Tutu Implores Faithful to Unite
As a black youth shut out from the white world of apartheid South Africa, Desmond Tutu found inspiration half a world away in Jackie Robinson's breakthrough into Major League Baseball.

October 16, 2007
They Come, They Clean, They Learn
CHENNAI: For the 30 visiting American students, the Government Adi Dravidar Primary School at Kannigapuram near Vyasarpadi gave the first feel of Chennai on Monday. The students from the University of Virginia, the U.S.A., were in the city as part of the ‘Semester at Sea’ programme.

October 5, 2007
Many Sides of India: Whirlwind tour of country leaves biggest impression on Semester at Sea participant.
A year ago, I had never even dreamed of visiting India. Whenever the country came to mind, my first image would always be of my best friend from my childhood; she and her family were from India. Playing at her house was not like playing at any other friends' house.

August 30, 2007
Students Spend Semester at Sea
The traditional study abroad program: living with a local family or in student housing while attending a foreign university. Semester at Sea: quarters aboard a 24,000-ton converted cruise ship that visits multiple continents over a three-month voyage.

August 3, 2007
Powerful, Exhausting, Fun: Semester at Sea Voyagers Experiencing Latin America
You can study Latin America in Charlottesville. You can read books, attend lectures, watch video, learn Spanish. But how much better is it to do all of that aboard a ship, while stopping every couple of days at a different port to actually experience Latin America?

July 11, 2007
A Semester at Sea: Hanover students have unique educational experience
NORWELL - When she wasn’t in class, Jen Jackson spent her spring semester on an African safari, visiting the Great Wall of China and touring the Taj Mahal.

July 10, 2007
Worldwide Trip Helps Inspire Cal U Student
When Alison Edwards embarked on a 100-day journey around the world, the California University of Pennaylvania senior knew she would bring home lasting memories.

July 8, 2007
Woman Returns from Voyage Around the World
At the ripe, young age of 80, Miriam Bowman saw a voyage around the world as an opportunity to grow within a community of learners. She has just returned from one of her greatest adventures yet.

June 11, 2007
For Seafaring Students, It's Tech Ahoy
Traveling the world used to be lonely, soul-searching business for college students and recent grads. Not so anymore, thanks to cell phones, satellite, GPS and the Internet.

December 10, 2007
Global Nomads Group and Semester at Sea Connect Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Students Using Polycom Video Conferencing for Program on World Religions
PLEASANTON, Calif., and NEW YORK: Global Nomads Group, an organization dedicated to fostering cross-cultural dialogue and understanding among youth, and Polycom, Inc., the world’s leading provider of unified collaborative solutions, today announced the initial results of the first "Agents of Change" initiative. The initiative is a global one-day event focused on raising awareness and funds for education, rehabilitation and youth support programs for the terrorized children of northern Uganda. "Agents of Change" is the first program centered on Project Uganda, an interactive video conferencing program that enabled U.S. students to learn about the challenges in Padibe, Uganda. Through the program, U.S. students connected with Ugandan students to learn first-hand about the daily conflicts they faced in the region.

February 26, 2007
Seeing it all on a Semester at Sea
Some call it a blessing in disguise, but I wasn't buying it. At the start of my fourth year at San Diego State, I was told I wouldn't be accepted into the television, film and new media production major. That meant new lower division courses I didn't want to take for a major I didn't want to be in.