Sheep along the roadway in Transylvania, Romania, are just one of the sights that now are uncommon to Austin College physics faculty member Andra Troncalli. Read about her recent sabbatical: “An American in Bucharest.”

Lucy Li ’13 studied abroad in Beijing, China, to develop her Chinese reading and writing skills. While there, she was able to travel to Gansu province in far west China and see monasteries and local life in the land so different from the city she called home during most of her visit.

Taylor Smith ’12 spent a study abroad term in New Zealand “about 7,000 miles outside of my comfort zone where I became a person I never thought I could be: brave, fearless, and completely independent.”