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Ticket to Study Abroad: Three UP Students Awarded Gilman Scholarships

Study Abroad

May 13, 2025

Three University of Portland students have been selected to receive the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which provides financial support to students wishing to study abroad.

Maraina Montgomery

Maraina Montgomery Named Director of UP Studies Abroad Program

Study Abroad

June 8, 2021

After an international search, the University of Portland has named Maraina Montgomery, Director of Studies Abroad, effective July 1.

Hands cradling a skull at archeological dig site

Digging Toward Questions: The University of Portland Pollentia Undergraduate Research Expedition

Study Abroad

Biology

College of Arts and Sciences

Theology

Portland Magazine

Chemistry

October 24, 2019

For five summers, University of Portland has sent an interdisciplinary team of student and faculty researchers to an archeological dig site in Pollentia, Mallorca, Spain. Representing all areas of study at the University--from chemistry to theology and business to library science--members of UP PURE have gotten out in the field and done the slow, often back-aching, knee-crunching, centimeter-by-centimeter work of excavating artifacts of an ancient Roman city.

David Vargas Puga '21

David Vargas Puga '21 becomes first UP student to receive Fund for Education Abroad scholarship award

Study Abroad

December 4, 2018

University of Portland’s David Vargas Puga ’21 recently became one of only 22 students nationwide to receive a scholarship from Fund for Education Abroad, a program which focuses on making study abroad opportunities accessible to all students.

Campus aerial photo from 2016

University of Portland students win undergraduate awards, study abroad scholarships

Environmental Studies

Undergraduate Scholarly Engagement

Study Abroad

College of Arts and Sciences

December 13, 2016

Four University of Portland College of Arts and Sciences students have won national and international awards recently.

Eduardo Contreras, Jr., appointed Director of Studies Abroad for University of Portland, effective July 1

Study Abroad

June 8, 2015

Eduardo Contreras, Jr., has been appointed Director of Studies Abroad for the University of Portland, announced Thomas G. Greene, Provost and Professor of Education.

University of Portland ranked 14th nationally among peers in students studying abroad

Awards and Rankings

Study Abroad

April 13, 2015

University of Portland is ranked 14th nationally among its peer institutions in students studying abroad for a long-term duration, defined as more than one academic semester.