 Study
Abroad Online Workshop
Presenter Biographies
and Contact Information
Jodi Malmgren is
director of advising for the Learning Abroad Center
at the University of Minnesota. Jodi oversees the
advising, grades, registration, and financial aid
processes for students studying abroad. Before joining
the Learning Abroad Center, she advised University
of Minnesota students for 5 years and taught political
science for 2 years. Jodi completed her B.A. at St.
Olaf College and her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota,
and twice studied abroad in Paris, France.
Contact Information:
Jodi Malmgren
Learning Abroad Center
(612) 626-9000; toll free: 888-700-UOFM
UMabroad@umn.edu
Antonia Lortis
Studied abroad in high school in Venezuela through Youth For Understanding.
1989 Volunteered abroad in high school in Costa Rica through Amigos
de las Americas. 1990 Studied abroad in college in Guatemala, Colombia
and Ecuador through HECUA (Higher Education Consortium for Urban
Affairs) 1993 Will study abroad in Vienna, Austria and Warsaw, Poland
through Carlson School of Management May term 2006.
Laura Coffin Koch is
a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Minnesota. She has
been a faculty member at the University since 1987.
Her research and teaching interests revolve around
the learning of mathematics by underrepresented populations.
She is the author of numerous articles, chapters,
and papers and is the recipient of several grants
from the National Science Foundation on the teaching
of mathematics to minority college students and middle
school girls with disabilities.
Currently Dr. Koch is the associate vice provost
for First Year Programs at the University of Minnesota.
In that position, she has responsibility for convocation,
freshman seminars, and the office of Orientation
and First Year Programs. In 2000, Dr. Koch was appointed
by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory
Committee on Women in the Services. During the 1999-2000
academic year, professor Koch was an American Council
of Education Fellow.
Contact Information:
Laura Coffin Koch
(612) 624-1085
koch@umn.edu
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