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Saturday, March 12, 2011

UC Students in Japan

UC awaits word from 80 students in Japan

3/11/11 Sacramento Bee,
Laurel Rosenhall

University of California officials are working to locate 80 students and 32 employees who are studying or working abroad in Japan, where a large earthquake and tsunami struck yesterday causing significant damage to the north part of the country.

UC students are studying in seven different locations around Japan, said university spokeswoman Lynn Tierney. UC contracts with private companies to track students and employees while they are abroad. The university is awaiting word from campus officials and the private companies to find out how UC's students are doing.

UC students in Japan are on spring break, Tierny said, which is complicating efforts to locate them...

Full article at http://www.sacbee.com/2011/03/11/3468483/uc-awaits-word-from-80-students.html

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