International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
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People Who Studied Abroad #638:
Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands (recently abdicated and now styled “Princess Beatrix”)
From:
Netherlands
Studied:
During WWII, her family went into exile in Ottawa, Canada, where she attended Rockcliffe Park Public School.
People Who Studied Abroad #565:
John Marshall Harlan II, U.S. Supreme Court justice (1955-1971)
From:
United States
Studied:
He attended the Canadian boarding schools Upper Canada College and Appleby College, then graduated from Princeton University. In 1920, he received a Rhodes Scholarship and studied jurisprudence at Balliol College, University of Oxford.
People Who Studied Abroad #492:
Peter Sands, CEO of Standard Chartered plc
From:
Born in the UK, raised mostly in Malaysia and Singapore
Studied:
He attended United World College of the Pacific (Canada) before receiving his bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford. He received a Harkness Fellowship to earn a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (United States).
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People Who Studied Abroad #410:
Felipe, Prince of Asturias (Crown Prince of Spain)
From:
Spain
Studied:
He attended high school at Lakefield College School in Ontario, Canada, then went on to do a degree in law at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain. He completed his master’s degree at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University (United States).
He was also the flagbearer for the Spanish Olympic team at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, where he competed in sailing events.
People Who Studied Abroad #384:
Carol Shields, author and Pulitzer Prize winner
From:
United States
Studied:
In her junior year of college (1955-56), she received a United Nations scholarship, which helped her to study at the University of Exeter (United Kingdom). While studying abroad, she traveled to Scotland and met her future husband, who was an engineering student from Canada. They married in 1957 and moved to Canada, where she attended the University of Ottawa and received her MA in 1975.
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People Who Studied Abroad #375:
Andrea Casiraghi, second (after his mother, Princess Caroline) in line to the throne of Monaco
From:
Born in Monaco, raised mostly in France
Studied:
He received an international baccalaureate degree from the International School of Paris (France) in December 2002. He studied at McGill University (Canada) for a while but ultimately received his bachelor’s degree in visual arts and international politics from the American University of Paris (France). He completed a master’s degree in international affairs from The New School in New York City (United States) and is working on another master’s degree at the University of Barcelona (Spain).
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People Who Studied Abroad #355:
Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer
From:
United States
Studied:
In 1917, she visited her sister in Toronto, where Muriel was attending a college preparatory school. Amelia was inspired by the sight of wounded soldiers returning from WWI to study through the Canadian Red Cross to become a nurse’s aide. She worked at Spadina Military Hospital in Toronto until she contracted the Spanish flu in the 1918 epidemic.
People Who Studied Abroad #351:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, political scientist and former United States National Security Advisor
From:
Born in Poland to a diplomat father, raised in Poland, Germany, the Soviet Union and Canada
Studied:
He received his high school diploma in Canada and earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees there, at McGill University. He planned to continue his studies in Great Britain but instead attended Harvard University (United States), where he earned his doctorate in 1953.
People Who Studied Abroad #335:
Charles R. Drew, physician and medical researcher, involved in the development of the field of blood transfusion
From:
United States
Studied:
He received his M.D. and Master of Surgery degrees in 1933 from McGill University (Canada), where he was ranked 2nd in his class.
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People Who Studied Abroad #296:
Agnes Chan, musician, author and academic
From:
Hong Kong (now China)
Studied:
Her singing career brought her to Japan around 1972, and she graduated from The American School in Japan in 1973. She spent two years at Sophia University in Tokyo. Later she took a break from her entertainment career to study social child psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada and also earned a doctorate in Education from Stanford University (United States).
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People Who Studied Abroad #225:
Maria Eitel, President of the Nike Foundation
From:
United States
Studied:
Received her BA from McGill University in Canada.
Source: nafsa.org
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People Who Studied Abroad #182:
Kristi Yamaguchi, U.S. Olympian (figure skating)
From:
United States
Studied:
Took classes in Psychology at the University of Edmonton (Canada) while training there.
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People Who Studied Abroad #108:
Burt Bacharach, composer and music producer
From:
United States
Studied:
Attended McGill University in Canada, where he studied music and wrote his first song, “The Night Plane to Heaven.”
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![Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #4:
Dr. James Wilson, House
I haven’t figured out whether Wilson is supposed to be a Canadian who came to the US for his graduate study or an American who went to Canada for his undergraduate degree, but since he has degrees from McGill, Columbia and Penn, he had to have been studying outside his native country at some point.
[photo via fuckyeahjameswilson]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9o2nix2XS1qcrvxco1_500.png)
Fictional Character Who Studied Abroad #4:
Dr. James Wilson, House
I haven’t figured out whether Wilson is supposed to be a Canadian who came to the US for his graduate study or an American who went to Canada for his undergraduate degree, but since he has degrees from McGill, Columbia and Penn, he had to have been studying outside his native country at some point.
[photo via fuckyeahjameswilson]
