Global Faces

I am working as a Senior Design Engineer in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, most recently based in Abu Dhabi.? My degree at UNH is what got me here, because it is a topic that is not common in all places and is something so specialized that companies show a lot of interest when they hear about¡­

I graduated from the GEBCO program in 2014 with an Advanced Ocean Mapping Certificate. It is a unique program aimed at international students, and it's probably the best of its kind.

As Academic Fieldwork Coordinator and member of the International Committee for the Occupational Therapy Department, I was awarded a Global Education Center faculty international development grant.

Meet International Alum, Thomas Kroll!?Tom is originally from Tanzania.?He was a Mechanical Engineering student and graduated in 2015 with his Bachelor's degree.?While at UNH, Tom was fortunate to share many wonderful experiences with people from all over the world.

Meet international alum, Ariel Pueyo Encinas from Bolivia! Ariel graduated in May of 2016 earning a Bachelor of Arts in French, with a dual major in Political Science and International Affairs.

¡°...Not a lot of Americans know about my culture. I grew up in a place where it was globalized so we learned about different cultures by itself...It¡¯s like, okay, we learned about America since we were young. We learned about different countries when we were born. But I really don¡¯t feel like a lot¡­

¡°In the United States, there¡¯s this intimate interaction ¡­ he or she is always eager to come down very low to your level.¡± Justine Nwanakwere is a doctoral candidate in Economics from Lagos, Nigeria. He spoke to me about the distinct differences.

During my interviews with Eleonora?Olsmats?(Senior and Engineering Physics major from Stockholm, Sweden) and?Arzum?Sepici?(Junior and Psychology major from Antalya, Turkey), we discussed the topic of friendliness and developing friendships in the United States as international students.

Medini Weerasinghe is a doctoral candidate in Integrative and Organismal Biology with a concentration in plant genetic engineering from Kandy, Sri Lanka.

¡°.... I feel like the American culture, it¡¯s more like you have to survive on your own, like you don¡¯t have your parents. It was like {in Italy}, oh I don¡¯t know how to do this, I¡¯m just going to go to my Mom whereas here {in America} you have to do that.¡±

Kherlen Oyunbaatar is a Junior from the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia studying Bioengineering. During our discussion, Kherlen talked about how improving her English helped her to better connect with Americans.?