Bellisario College students travel to Kazakhstan for a journalism trip

Each spring for more than a decade, journalism students from the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State have traveled the world, reporting on the people and events that shape countries from Turkey and Estonia to China and Cuba.

In 2025, students traveled to Kazakhstan. The Bellisario College journalism crew, nine students, four faculty members and an advisor, arrived in Almaty on March 8 and hit the ground running.

You can follow their work on the Bellisario student media site, on @psubellisario Instagram and TikTok @bellisarioverseas. Most of the stories will be posted after the trip but the team will be reporting some stories while in Kazakhstan and we will be updating the Bellisario College student media site as the trip goes on.

Below is our team of student-journalists.