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Orlando Bloom speaks to the Class of 2025 during SUA's Commencement Ceremony.
May 23, 2025 10 Min Read

2025 Commencement Address by Orlando Bloom

May 23, 2025

"One thing is clear, young people everywhere need someone to truly hear them. A single moment of genuine connection can alter a person’s destiny. It can transform a time of deep darkness into a spark ...

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Dr. Yang Allen smiling and pointing upwards, standing in front of public restroom entrances with "WOMAN" and "MAN" signs.
Sep 17, 2024 1 Min Read

Yang Li Allen

PBRC Postdoctoral Fellow 2025-26

China’s Toilet Revolution was a created policy space through which to actively accommodate other governmental objectives, sociopolitical policy implementations, and grand policy goals, such as economi...

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Moonlit High Tide Pearce
Jul 12, 2024 4 Min Read

River Deep - Mountain High by Anne Austin Pearce

Essay written by guest curator Cara Megan Lewis

Pearce’s studies of natural phenomena remind us that life finds a way despite the perceived limitation that death presents. Death is not the end as life courses forward in the universe’s continuous cy...

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Stephen Dunham
May 25, 2024 15 Min Read

2024 Commencement Address by Stephen S. Dunham

Free Speech: Dialogue, Democracy, and Community

I believe that freedom of speech – the right of individuals to express their individual viewpoints no matter how unpopular -- is necessary for constructive dialogue and constructive dialogue is in tur...

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Scott Bower sits cross-legged on the floor in between two students and is pointing to his left
Aug 15, 2023 3 Min Read

Scott Bower

Class of 2015

I believe that [INTS] has greatly prepared me to cultivate a perspective that made me aware of cultural differences, and political and social inequities.

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Image of Laura Cossette.
Aug 14, 2023 2 Min Read

Laura Cossette

Class of 2015

The perspectives I gained in my INTS classes helped me be a better traveler and global citizen.

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Image of Yuko Nakajima.
Aug 13, 2023 3 Min Read

Yuko Nakajima

Class of 2015

By learning to think comprehensively as well as gaining knowledge-based facts of international affairs, I changed my perception of the world.

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Image of Seonmi Jin (nee) Sun.
Aug 12, 2023 3 Min Read

Seonmi Jin, née Sun

Class of 2013

I also participated in various programs on international politics and history outside the US utilizing grants programs offered at SUA.

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Image of Christopher Larkin.
Aug 11, 2023 2 Min Read

Christopher Larkin

Class of 2013

I’ve been working for a social purpose consultancy that brings me into contact with senior policy makers and political figures on a regular basis.

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Image of Erika Koizumi.
Aug 10, 2023 1 Min Read

Erika Koizumi

Class of 2011

Because of the experience that I gained as an [INTS] student, I became interested in joining Peace Corps [which] led me to work for a government agency.

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