Author: Emma Sutton | Major: Animal Science | Semester: Summer 2025 This summer, I spent two weeks in Ghent, Belgium, with the faculty-led Sustainability in the Euro Food System program. I chose this program because it was a short-term study abroad program offered...
Belgium
Belgium is More than Potatoes
Name: Jalee Spain | Major: Civil Engineering | Semester: Summer 2025 This summer, I had the opportunity to attend the May Intersession of the Food Sustainability in the European Food System program. We spent two weeks in Ghent, Belgium, and they were the best two...
Greener Plates, Broader Perspectives: My Belgian Sustainability Journey
Author: Hudson Roberts | Major: Civil Engineering | Semester: Summer 2025 On May 11, 2025, after nearly 24 hours of travel, I looked around the airport in Brussels, Belgium, wondering what I had gotten myself into. I exchanged friendly, jet-lagged smiles to the eight...
She Went to Ghent!
Author: Alyssa Foley | Majors: Crop Science, Agricultural Communications | Semester: Summer 2025 Hello! My name is Alyssa Foley, and I am an incoming junior double-majoring in Crop Science and Agricultural Communications. Over the summer, I was lucky enough to study...
A Small Country with a Lot to Give
Author: Emma Whitaker | Major: Biological Engineering | Semester: Summer 2025 After studying abroad in Japan and leaving the country for the very first time just a year prior, I fell in love with going abroad and knew I had to do it again at some point in my college...
Lessons in Ghent
Name: Mia Conley | Major: Mechanical Engineering | Semester: Summer 2025 My name is Mia Conley, and I am an incoming sophomore mechanical engineering major who studied abroad through the College of Engineering. The program I attended took place in Belgium during the...
A Year of Studies and Work in Germany
Author: Jackson Burnett | Major: Mechanical Engineering | Semester: Summer 2024 My name is Jackson Burnett, and I lived in Germany for one year as part of the International Engineering Program at the University of Arkansas. The International Engineering Program allows...
Author: Aly Blackwell | Major: Food, Nutrition and Health| Semester II 2024 Since my last blog post, my study abroad experience has become even better by the second. During session two of my DIS summer, I began a new course titled Postcolonial Europe: Narratives,...
Santé! (Cheers!)
Author: Maci Brouillette | Major: Biological Engineering | Semester: Summer 2024 In the two weeks I spent in Ghent, Belgium in May as part of the Sustainability in the European Food System program, my outlook on how to implement sustainable practices has changed...
Chasing Belgian Chocolates
Author: Courtney Wilmoth | Major: Chemical Engineering | Semester: Summer 2024 Relaxing with my feet in a koi pond under the spring sun, eating ruby red strawberries, and feeling decadent chocolate melt on my tongue. These were not the experiences I had imagined when...