Transatlantic Ties


Students and faculty from Hochschule RheinMain along with Wendy Shoemaker (Senior Associate Director, KU University Career Center), Ann Hartley, UCC Associate Director), and Lorie Vanchena

University Career Center and Hochschule RheinMain

Students and faculty from Hochschule RheinMain (Wiesbaden, Germany) participated in a week-long consulting project at the Lawrence Arts Center in September 2018. Wendy Shoemaker, Senior Associate Director, KU University Career Center, who has long-standing ties with the university, and Ann Hartley, UCC Associate Director, joined their guests at the MKC for a talk by Director Lorie Vanchena about Universalis Cosmographia, a world map created by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1507, and how its history reflects the German-American relationship.


German Exchange Students with the German Faculty and Charles Bankart, Associate Vice Provost of International Affairs and Rachel Sherman Johnson, Director of Internationalization and Partnerships

German Exchange Students at KU 2018-2019

The Max Kade Center invited German exchange students attending KU 2018-2019 to meet German Studies faculty and students at a reception in September 2018. Charles Bankart, Associate Vice Provost of International Affairs, and Rachel Sherman Johnson, Director of Internationalization and Partnerships, also attended the meet & greet.