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Three UO students from Gabon are trying to shrug off Oregon’s unpredictable weather, but they are embracing the opportunity to study abroad. The three students, Gleen Landangoye, Sephora Aplogan and Iris Mouleka, had begun their studies at east coast schools when they got the call to come to the University of Oregon — with a full scholarship. All three jumped at the chance.

In mid July, Global Oregon hosted a three-day conference  of 21 Russian banking students and two faculty advisers as part of a larger two-week international exchange organized by Tatyana Tsyrlina and Associates in Cultural Exchange (ACE).

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A giant watermelon slice is painted on the water tower in Hermiston, Oregon, a town of around 17,000 residents nestled amid rolling farmland that ripples endlessly across the Columbia Plateau. Fueled by agriculture and food processing, it’s the kind of down-to-earth place where farming, family, and high school sports form a stable backbone. Embrace it, and you fit in.