Badgers Share their Study Abroad Experiences and New Perspectives

After Three Months in Kenya, UW Student Finds
New Career Interests and a Home Away From Home

Bridget Roby with a few girls at a program she volunteered for in Nairobi.
Bridget Roby with a few girls at a program she volunteered for in Nairobi.

Bridget Roby, from St. Paul, Minnesota, is a UW–Madison senior, graduating with degrees in international studies and journalism, as well as a certificate in African tudies. She studied abroad during the spring of her junior year (2009) in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya through the Minnesota Studies in International Development program (MSID) which is co-sponsored by UW–Madison. Roby says the experience changed her life and she can’t wait to get back. She will be enlisting in the Peace Corps next year.

Roby shares her most memorable experiences in an interview with Nina Gehan from the Division of International Studies.

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Studying Science in a French Context: Q&A with Alice Toy

Toy on one of the many visits she made to Paris, France.
Toy on one of the many visits she made to Paris, France.

Alice Toy is a senior from Waukesha, WI majoring in biology and French. Last year she studied in Lyon, France through the TransAtlantic Science Student Exchange Program (TASSEP). TASSEP is a consortium of universities from the European Union and the United States that has designed an academic year exchange program specifically for undergraduate science majors.

Read the interview with Alice Toy, conducted by Nina Gehan from the Division of International Studies.