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Less than a week remains for students to apply to a spring 2009 program in Florence, home of ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's newest international "centre" and birthplace of the Italian Renaissance. Sophomores, juniors and seniors are eligible to participate through the Isabella Cannon Centre for International Studies. The deadline is Sept. 22.

Many students keep little more than a photo album to share their stories from overseas college trips. ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ junior Ashley Dischinger, however, will soon have much more to show for her recent Winter Term program in South Africa – a chapter in a forthcoming guidebook on study abroad destinations.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ juniors Mykel L. Dodson and Sarah Vavreck have won national scholarships through the nonprofit Institute of International Education to help fund their upcoming study abroad programs.

A nonprofit group that helps residents of the Dominican Republic credited ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in its most recent newsletter for the help students provided during a Spring Break service trip.