The inaugural Roanoke College International Film Festival will kick off next month, aiming to bring together the campus and Roanoke communities through culture and film. 

Vanessa Pearson ’21, the 11^th Roanoke College student selected as a Gilman Scholar, will spend the Spring 2019 semester in Australia at James Cook University taking psychology, education and Australian history classes.

Olivia Streett is the 10th Roanoke College student to receive the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. She will study in Leipzig, Germany this fall with the Roanoke program led by Dr. Robert Willingham. 

"Immersive: providing, involving, or characterized by deep absorption or immersion in something...such as an activity or...environment." -Merriam Webster Dictionary 

"It was an incredible experience to dive deep into the traces of the past, especially when we realized that the past and present of Egypt are tangled together in such remarkable ways."

For the second time since 2012, Roanoke College is a recipient of the ASIANetwork's fellowship award. The College is one of eight recipients of the Student-Faculty Fellows 2018 award.

Do you want to study abroad, but are concerned about costs and credit transfers? A new study abroad program that takes students to Leipzig, Germany might just be the perfect option.

From Thailand to England, students traveled to 10 different countries during May Term.

Stephanie Shields '17 has been selected for a 2017-18 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Germany. She will be doing research in Munich, Germany on vocal learning - the capacity to learn to produce new sounds through imitation - in the bat Phyllostomus discolor.

Edyth Cisneros earned a Fulbright Student Award teaching English in Mexico. She also will be working on a mini documentary series about the other side of immigration - those left behind.