The University of Oregon Office of International Affairs announced that all 13 UO students studying abroad in France at the time of the recent Paris terrorist attacks are safe, and that the faculty member in Paris has flown home. None of the students were near Paris at the time of the attack, except for two Global Education Oregon (GEO) students and one UO faculty member.
One of the GEO students studying in Spain was in Paris with her father.
The university currently has no students or facility in Beirut or Baghdad, where other terrorist attacks took place last week.
A previous version of this article stated the UO students studying abroad in France had returned home. They are currently still in France.
UO students in France safe, office of international affairs says
November 15, 2015
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