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View All NewsAFSA Essay Contest Winner Awarded Scholarship with Semester at Sea
The Institute of Shipboard Education is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 American Foreign Service Association National High School Essay Contest, Wilson King from Shepaug High School...
Semester at Sea at the Rocky Mountain Showdown
The University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University are squaring off on the football field for the annual Rocky Mountain Showdown on August 30, 2019, and this year Semester...
Spring 2020 Voyage Now Waitlisted
Spring 2020 Voyage Now Waitlisted The Spring 2020 Voyage is now full. However, we expect a number of cancellations between now and December 2. We want you to feel fully...
Shipboard Traditions Explained: What is Neptune Day?
Some shipboard traditions may not make sense unless you’ve sailed with Semester at Sea. Take Neptune Day, for instance. Do you have to shave your head? And what are these pollywogs...
Spring 2019 End of Voyage Video
After 106 days, 12 countries, 13 cities, and a enough memories to fill more than a few travel journals, Spring 2019 Voyagers are now adventuring without their shipboard community alongside...
Entrepreneurship in Action: Moroccan Business Owners Exchange Ideas with Voyagers
For their final field class of the voyage, students enrolled in Colorado State University Professor Chris Blocker’s product design class spent the day networking and collaborating with six Moroccan entrepreneurs...
From Bean to Bar: Exploring the Origins of Fair Trade Chocolate in Ghana
Ghana is the second largest producer of cacao in the world, behind Ivory Coast, which provided Semester at Sea students an excellent opportunity to see the process of chocolate production...
Day of Giving is Here!
Semester at Sea’s annual Day of Giving is here! Day of Giving is an exciting time during which friends of the program from across the globe are encouraged to make...
The First Week at Sea, From a Voyager’s Viewpoint
My first week on Semester at Sea has been very different from anything I’ve ever known. I had no clue who my roommate was until she walked into our cabin...
Whales, Sharks, and Penguins: Biogeography Field Class in South Africa
Safaris are often synonymous with travel in South Africa, as flocks of visitors come to spot the iconic Big Five. But did you know that there is also a Marine...
Conservation in Action: Three Environmental Field Programs in Mauritius
Semester at Sea voyagers call the ocean home for an entire semester, but what do students do to give back to the ocean? How can they support its health and...
Journalism students talk #MeToo Movement in India
The #MeToo movement, which was founded in 2006 but gained prominence in 2017 after accusations of sexual assault and harassment against high-profile American celebrities, has since spread throughout the world,...
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