World-Classroom
A PAGL team in the Galápagos islands, Ecuador
The world has gotten smaller, but its challenges have gotten bigger. Five years in, we take a look at how UT’s President’s Award for Global Learning has empowered students and faculty to address real-world problems and make a global impact through in-country work.
The President’s Award for Global Learning connects small student-faculty teams with international partners, funding and administrative support to research global challenges and make a worldwide impact.
By working together, students and faculty design, develop and carry out projects that deepen UT’s impact and deliver on our promise that what starts here changes the world.
“My goal since high school has been to conduct research on an international scale—a goal I thought would take four years of undergraduate work and then years working on a Ph.D. to achieve. My President’s Award for Global Learning experience was the culmination of everything I’ve always dreamed of experiencing—10 years earlier than I ever expected.”
Bianca Busogi
Senior, Plan II Honors & Biochemistry
Project: Building for Sustainability in the Galápagos
Changing the world
More from this series
SHIFTing the Culture
A paradigm-shifting community initiative dreamed up by Mindy Hildebrand is helping to change the culture of campus substance use from one of misuse to one of well-being.
A Legacy of Longhorn Pride
Rex Tillerson’s long history of support for UT is anchored by a formative experience in the Longhorn Band, his commitment to Texas Engineering and his vision for the future.
Every Voice Matters
The Blank Center is dedicated to ending the global stigmatization of stuttering.