A group of nine professors from Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, three Global Center Members and a World Affairs Council Executive Director were led by Dr. Stephen Hoffmann, Professor and Department Chair of Political Science at Taylor University and Deborah Kittner, Director of Programs at the Global Center on a Faculty Development Tour through Berlin, Dresden, and Munich in June 2007. They explored themes of labor, immigration, environment, government, globalization, and Germany's history especially the holocaust and reunification.

Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson sits on the Advisory Council of the Global enter Board of Directors. Early this year, he talked to the Global Center Young Professionals about his recent trip to the Middle East organized by the Aspen Institute as part of its Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership. He was kind enough to share some of his pictures and Journals from that trip.