Global reach 2016

November 2016 • Vol. 15

CONTENTS: ARTICLES CONAHEC: Transforming Higher Education........................... 3 CELEBRATING: 50 Year of Arizona in Brazil .........................4 BRAZIL: Gobernate Award.......................................................6 BRAZIL: Honorary Citizen........................................................6 STUDENT FOCUS: Summer Internships Awarded ................. 7 BRAZIL: UA Uses Big Data to Solve Problems......................... 8 GCC COUNTRIES: Diversification, Innovation and Solutions............................................................................. 10 MEXICO: Rural Aid for Students.............................................12 CHINA: UA Launches First Dual Degree Law Program..........13 UA GLOBAL PARTNER DAY ................................................ 14 GLOBAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS......................................... 14 STUDENT FOCUS: Engaged Learning Abroad......................... 15 IRAN: Expanding Persian and Iranian Studies...................... 16 STUDENT FOCUS: Welcoming Students from Mexico to the UA Campus...............................................................................15 STUDENT FOCUS: UA Study Abroad Photo Contest.............18 HONORS: Recognition and Awards......................................20 ALUMNI FOCUS..................................................................... 23 STUDENT FOCUS: Documentary “Looking China”.............. 23 UA ATHLETES: Wildcats in the Summer Olympics...............24 NEW DATA PORTAL Reveals Global Landscape....................31 REPORTS GRANTS: International Research Development....................26 GRANTS: Visiting Scholars............................................................26 IRDG Reports........................................................................... 27 FULBRIGHT News...................................................................29 2016 INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS.......................................30 2016 COLLEGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.............................31 Front Cover: Students in Namibia; photography by program professor Hans-Werner Herrmann. Read the whole story on page 15.

Back Cover: Rio de Janeiro is one of the most visited cities in the Southern Hemisphere and is known for its natural settings, Carnival, samba, bossa nova, and balneario beaches.

Empowering Youth Through International Education

Greetings!

Thanks to tremendous dedication by countless people across the UA campus and around the globe, this year has been filled with exciting events and accomplishments. Many international partners, colleagues and students have made their way to the sunny Sonoran Desert and we have seen the campus and the city of Tucson become a more international place – from our selection as the first US City of Gastronomy to an amazing class of nearly 4,000 international students.

Throughout this newsletter we will highlight many of the programs, events and people that make up our global knowledge network. These include: u 50 Years of Arizona in Brazil: Earlier this year a delegation from the UA visited Fortaleza, Brazil and celebrated 50 years of incredibly productive partnerships between our institution and institutions across Brazil. We were thrilled to be able to bring together a group of alumni from the 60’s and 70’s as well as leaders in Brazilian higher education to look forward toward another 50 years of partnerships. u Innovative Programs for Latin American Students: Throughout the summer two unique programs brought several dozen students from Mexico, Brazil and Chile to the UA campus to experience what it is like to be a student here in Tucson. These students were doing research in UA labs and visiting historic sites around southern Arizona. u Students, Alumni and Faculty Doing Amazing Things Abroad: Throughout the year hundreds of UA faculty and staff participate in activities around the world. As a result, many receive awards and recognition for their research and commitment to global productivity.

A few of these honors are highlighted here.

Our team’s goal, and the goal of countless partners across campus, is to establish the University of Arizona as a preferred partner to institutions around the world, as a hub of a global knowledge network and as THE global land-grant university.

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Best regards, ~ The UA Global Initiatives Team “From our first international student in 1891, through our sustained ranking, the UA has defined what it means to have Local Roots, Global Impact.”

~ Mike Proctor Vice President Office of Global Initiatives

The University of Arizona is proud to celebrate the 17th annual International Education Week.

Monday November 14 through Friday November 18, 2016. IEW is celebrated nationally and is a joint initiative of the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. The week celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange throughout the world.

The UA will host lectures, events and special sessions throughout the week. Unless noted, all events are free and open to the public. See the full Calendar of IEW Events webpage for an overview of all events to be hosted campus-wide at the University of Arizona.

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TRANSFORMING North American Higher Education

At the North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS) held in Ottawa, Canada June 29th, 2016, strong consensus emerged around the idea of working at a North American level to address common issues of importance. President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto supported the creation of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration’s North American Center for Collaborative Development identifying it among the summit’s “key deliverables” (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-pressoffice/2016/06/29/fact-sheet-united-states-key-deliverables-2016north-american-leaders).

Based at the University of Arizona, the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration (CONAHEC) is a not-for-profit membership-based network of over 170 higher education institutions and organizations which fosters academic collaboration among its members in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. CONAHEC assists in the development of internationalization strategy, strategic partnership building and initiatives, thematic meetings and mobility programs for students, faculty, researchers and academic staff.

CONAHEC’s new North American Center for Collaborative Development (NACCD) aims to facilitate international collaboration among researchers, teachers, students and other engaged community members in the North American region and engage their efforts in addressing shared challenges. The center will organize meetings where participants use knowledge from a variety of academic disciplines and ways of knowing, appropriate technologies, and innovative practices to address North American issues and provide appropriate fora for discussions, structured means of communicating perspectives, research, proposals and solutions. The NACCD will serve as a hub around which research networks and groups of interest will engage in ongoing work.

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Enrique Peña Nieto, Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama on June 29, 2016, creating conditions for “sustainable economic growth, help transition to a low carbon economy, and provide better opportunities for Canadians, Americans, and Mexicans alike.” Photo: wikipedia.

Through this new initiative, CONAHEC will continue to facilitate international higher education collaboration among its member institutions, with government agencies, nonfor-profit organizations and the private sector. The NACCD will strengthen the North American region and help address global grand challenges and the advancement of North American societies through research, teaching and service.

The University of Arizona and its distinguished researchers, faculty and students can play key roles in addressing North American challenges through the NACCD. Please accept this invitation to become involved and be on the lookout for opportunities circulated through the NACCD. For more information about CONAHEC and the NACCD please visit www.conahec.org and www.naideas.org.

To find out more about CONAHEC and its activities, please visit http://www.conahec.org

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50 YEARS of Arizona in Brazil agricultural education program at the Federal University of Ceara.

Attendees were addressed by Mike Proctor, the vice president of UA Global Initiatives, who reiterated the importance of our relationship with Brazil.

“We are here supporting this conference because Brazil has supported us for the last 50 years,” Proctor said during his speech to the crowd.

By: UA Office of Global Initiatives A celebration of “50 Years of Arizona in Brazil” was held on Saturday, April 16 in Fortaleza, Brazil. The event happened in conjunction with the FAUBAI conference, which is the Brazilian Association for International Education.

Brazil has been a key international partner for the UA for 50 years. The UA currently has 188 alums living in Brazil and 51 students on campuses there.

From 1965 to 1975 there was a large group of over 40 Brazilians that received their advanced degrees from the UA as part of a partnership to develop an

Jose Tarquinio Prisco, an alumnus who received his MS in Horticulture in 1969 and doctorate in Botany and Plant physiology in 1971 at the UA, also addressed the crowd.

Dr. Finan recalled memories including “near-legendary stories of life at “Vila Paraiso” (Paradise Villa—the name they gave the apartment complex where many resided here in Tucson), their experiences as students adapting to an American university and their subsequent careers in their respective departments at the Federal University of Ceará.”

The UA currently has eight active institutional partnerships with universities across Brazil.

One key project is I3For which combines research happening with the University of Fortaleza in smart cities, English language learning and social development.

Dr. Timothy Finan, Research Anthropologist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, said “it was heartwarming and inspirational to see the multiple generations of Arizona graduates present.”

Dr. Finan reflected that his time at Arizona and work in Brazil overlaps with many of the attendees of this event so it brought back years of memories and struggles.

Photo this page: Meireles Beach and Avenida Beira Mar in Fortaleza (Photo courtesy Ajaceman)

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UA Project in Brazil Awarded 2015 Gobernarte Award

UA Anthropologist Honorary Citizen of Fortaleza

The fifth-largest city in Brazil, Fortaleza, which has a University of Arizona alumnus as its mayor and is involved in close collaboration with the UA, has been selected as one of five winners of the 2015 Gobernarte Award, presented by Inter-American Development Banks (IDB).

Tim Finan, a research anthropologist and professor at the UA, has recently been named an Honorary Citizen of Fortaleza Brazil because of his valuable contribution to the public policy of food security in Ceará.

The Gobernarte Award recognizes the most innovative practices in public administration at the subnational level across Latin America and the Caribbean. The other winners were the cities of São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil; Baruta, Venezuela; Antigua, Guatemala; and Guayaquil, Ecuador.

At only 40 years old, Roberto Cláudio Rodrigues Bezerra, has been Fortaleza’s mayor since 2012. He holds masters and doctoral degrees from the UA’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. He visited the UA campus last June.

Fast-growing Fortaleza has a population of 3.6 million and 21 miles of coastline. In many such developing cities, transportation options are not keeping pace. Roberto Cláudio partnered with the Department of Management Information Systems in the UA’s Eller College of Management on a Smart Cities project that combined the expertise of the INSITE Center of Business Intelligence and Analytics at MIS, Fortaleza’s Department of Urban Transportation and Mobility, and the

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University of Fortaleza. Smart Cities is the main component of I3FOR, a new collaboration between the UA and the University of Fortaleza.

A recent visit by the IDB attempted to identify ways this project could be replicated in other cities around the world. One item of note was the level of commitment in academia and government which is unique to this initiative.

“It’s a great satisfaction to receive a delegation of the IDB in recognition of the quality of research projects underway between researchers, Unifor and University of Arizona around I3FOR - International Institute of Innovation Fortaleza - an institute of Unifor,” said Heraldo Rodrigues the head of the Research Board, Development and Innovation (DFID) of Unifor.

The IDB expert in Urban Development, Patricio Zambrano, said that this partnership between academia and the government is one of the items that draws attention in proposing solutions to urban problems in Fortaleza.

“Many cities have data, but do not know how to use them, and Fortaleza has thought of an interesting use.

It is essential we discuss how these technologies can improve the quality of life,” he says. And this is exactly the problem I3For looks to solve.

The title of Honorary Citizen of Fortaleza was established by the Fortaleza City Council and is intended to honor people who have somehow contributed to the development of Fortaleza and improvement of the quality of life of its residents.

“It symbolizes, for me, the recognition of the tremendous value of the University of Arizona’s collaboration with, and commitment to, its multiple institutional partners in Fortaleza and the state of Ceará,” he said.

Andrew Comrie, the senior vice president for UA academic affairs & provost, said the University of Arizona is exceptionally proud of professor Finan’s work in and around the city of Fortaleza.

“This good news underlines the positive relationships he has developed through his academic work with the Federal University of Ceará and the University of Fortaleza as well as his broader connections to the city of Fortaleza,” Comrie said.

Finan’s research projects are focused on environmental and climate issues for food security and evaluation of public policies related to these issues. His studies have always had a commitment to humanitarian causes and resulted social benefits beyond the U.S. borders.

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Illustrations from the interactive Smart Cities Project demonstration from INSITE

Two UA International Students Receive Rewarding Summer Internships Two international students from Afghanistan and Brazil received summer internships at the United Nations Headquarters and Nike because of their educational accomplishments, dedication to their studies and commitment to reaching their career goals through an education at the UA. Fardous Asem Rahmani, a UA student of Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) from Afghanistan and 2012 Fulbright Scholar, was given the opportunity to intern at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City this summer where he was able to experience different environments by working for the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations as an advisor and for the UNICEF Innovation Unit as a consultant.

For the Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the UN internship, Rahmani served as an advisor to the second committee that focuses on social and economic affairs and volunteered his time in humanitarian development committee and Security Council on-demand.

Samantha Czarniak, a finance major and UA tennis player from Brazil, received an opportunity to be a Global Sales Nike Intern in the tennis department because of her dedication and love for sports, as well as her education and future career.

“I believe the biggest takeaway from my internship was to not be afraid of talking and asking for help. Everyone at Nike is very welcoming and I loved being part of the company,” she said.

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Czarniak said being an international student at the UA has been amazing because everyone is very welcoming and helpful.

Her experience here has helped her become more independent and self-driven, which are qualities that helped her succeed during her internship.

“My favorite part of studying abroad is to experience an entirely new culture,” she said.

“I love learning about cultural differences and experiencing new things.”

Fardous Asem Rahmani

“I am honored to be a graduate student at the University of Arizona,” he said. “I am grateful for all support and encouragement that I receive from my advisors, from administration and departments of this university.”

“I believe the biggest takeaway from my internship was to not be afraid of talking and asking for help.”

Samantha Czarniak

Fardous Asem Rahmani, Student, MDP program

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UA Uses Big Data to Solve Bus Woes in Brazil By: Alexis Blue, University Communications | Today Fortaleza, Brazil’s fifth-largest city, struggles with bus delays and overcrowding. The city’s mayor, a UA alumnus, turned to big-data experts at his alma mater for help.

In Fortaleza — the fifth-largest city in Brazil — cars jam the streets, bicycles weave through traffic and bus stops are crowded with passengers who might have to wait much longer than expected to catch their ride.

The bustling metropolitan area of about 3 million people has faced a number of challenges with its public transportation system, including long delays and overcrowding on buses.

The University of Arizona is helping to address those issues by leveraging big data in a unique partnership with Fortaleza officials.

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Sudha Ram, director of the INSITE: Center for Business Intelligence and Analytics in the UA’s Eller College of Management, and her collaborators helped develop an online dashboard where Fortaleza city planners can access a wealth of valuable data about the city’s bus system to help them better understand where problems exist and make informed decisions about how to fix them.

“This is something that makes an impact; we’re not just simulating data but working with a real-world problem and real datasets,” said Ram, professor of management information systems and computer science at the UA.

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The work is part of the ongoing “smart cities” partnership between Fortaleza and the UA, which began when Fortaleza Mayor Roberto Cláudio, a UA alumnus, approached his alma mater to see how the University could help his city use data and technology to improve residents’ quality of life.

Since then, Ram and her colleagues at the UA have analyzed two to three years of data from the Fortaleza bus system, used by an estimated 90 percent of the city’s residents, who rack up 30 million trips a month.

The researchers looked at how many people rode the bus, and when and where they boarded, using data collected from the cards passengers scan to ride. They also analyzed data from the GPS trackers on each of the city’s 2,200 buses, which log location information every 15 to 30 seconds. In addition, the researchers looked at the locations of the city’s 4,800 bus stops and considered data on weather conditions and traffic accidents that might have contributed to delays.

“We were able to write our own algorithms to derive exactly how much time it takes for a bus to move from one bus stop to the next, so we can see how fast it’s moving and where the delays occur and where there are no delays,” Ram said. “Really, this is about understanding human mobility patterns.”

The work is detailed in a paper in Proceedings of the IEEE, a scientific journal published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. The study was recognized as “best paper” at the recent IEEE International Conference on Smart Cities in Trento, Italy.

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using to guide their decisions about where to add additional buses, dedicated bus lanes, or more stops and terminals along the city’s 320 routes to help cut down on delays, which can last anywhere from 15 minutes to several hours. Planners have access to two years’ worth of data in the tool.

Fan Dong — also are analyzing Fortaleza’s bike-sharing program, which residents access with the same card used on buses. Those whose homes or destinations are not close to a bus stop can use the bike to get to and from the nearest stop — what planners in Fortaleza refer to as a “first-mile or last-mile solution.”

“They can pick a particular bus route, they can pick the direction, they can pick a particular date and a particular hour, and they can see how many people were on the bus and where there were delays,” Ram said. “They can then take this information and decide whether it’s worth putting dedicated bus lanes on those segments of the road where there are most delays. And they’re able to justify and explain to their citizens why these decisions are important.

As part of the UA’s ongoing partnership with Fortaleza, Ram visits the city, on the northeastern coast of Brazil, three to four times a year. She and her colleagues also communicate with their partners in Fortaleza via videoconference once a week. The Fortaleza team includes transportation analysts, engineers and students from the University of Fortaleza. Among the Brazil collaborators is Ezequiel Dantas, Fortaleza surveillance coordinator, who said the collaboration has been a great experience.

“They’ve actually made some decisions using this dashboard, so we’re able to look at the ‘before and after’ to see if it’s making a difference or not,” Ram said.

“Week by week, our challenges were discussed and the group evolved to share a common objective: Understand better Fortaleza’s transportation problems,” Dantas said. “We believe that the achieved results are going to be useful for both technicians and decision makers.”

The same concept could be used by other developed or developing cities worldwide, she said.

“This is really about harnessing or leveraging data that is coming from the ‘internet of things,’ the GPS signals and the smart cards — these are all objects that generate signals, and they have a time stamp and a location and you want to be able to put all these points together and see patterns,” Ram said. “To build a smart city, you want to be able to get all that data together to understand people’s usage patterns, mobility patterns, and then design services that are actually going to help them.”

Earlier this year, Fortaleza was recognized by the InterAmerican Development Banks for its work on the Smart Fortaleza project with the UA. “I think having academic-city partnerships is very important,” Ram said. “I think city officials often don’t realize how much they can get from academia, and it’s great for centers like ours at Eller because we can work with real problems and real data, so it’s beneficial both ways.”

Ram and her team — including Faiz Currim, assistant director of the INSITE Center, and UA doctoral students Yun Wang and

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DIVERSIFICATION • INN the future.

“In the early days,” Sharaf said of the gulf’s oil-producing nations, “we were told, ‘The good news is that you have oil, but the bad news is that it won’t stay forever.’… In 2050, we want to celebrate the last barrel of oil.”

GCC Reunion Discusses Diversification, Innovation By: University Relations – Communications DP World, a Dubai-based company led

by UA alumnus Mohammed Sharaf, has entered into an agreement with Eller Executive Education for a leadership program.

The recent plummet in the price of oil, to below $30 a barrel, did little to alter the perspective of a panel at the Gulf Cooperation Council alumni reunion on the University of Arizona campus last week.

A discussion on trade and business quickly zeroed in on the need for a “postpetroleum” economy in the Persian Gulf — and the implications of such an economy for the rest of the world.

“Diversification is vital,” said David Gantz, a professor in the UA’s James E. Rogers College of Law. “There is cause for optimism if governments continue what they’ve been doing over the last few years.”

UA alumnus Mohammed Sharaf, CEO of Dubai-based DP World, provided a succinct history lesson while looking to

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Also on the trade and business panel were Kimberly Andrews Espy, senior vice president of the UA Office for Research & Discovery; Paul Melendez, assistant dean of executive education, UA Eller College of Management; and professor Larry Head of the UA College of Engineering. David Allen, vice president of Tech Launch Arizona, served as moderator.

The marriage of technology and renewable energy is of critical importance to what’s next, Sharaf said, and so is interdependence among nations.

“The world is becoming a small village where you know every minute, every second, what’s happening and what the opportunities are,” Sharaf said. “In this world, you can’t do things on your own.”

He said information technology is playing an increasingly significant role in the transportation industry. DP World, which owns port terminals around the globe, has entered into an agreement with the UA’s Eller Executive Education for a leadership development program for 17 of the company’s senior executives.

“I want them to network with other industries,” Sharaf said. “This industry has been very closed for 50-60 years. I want them to think out of the box.

The Advanced Leadership Development Program in which DP World will participate is an 18-month program. It has been designed for the company’s leaders to join the ranks of executives at Fortune 50 Most Admired companies.

“DP World sees the value of innovation,” Melendez said. “Innovative organizations are unique and distinct. Innovation is a skill that can be taught.”

The UA has a particularly strong alumni presence in the Middle East. For the past three years, the University has sent representatives to the region for the GCC alumni reunion. GCC member nations include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

This year, the reunion group came to Tucson, and the UA Office of Global Initiatives scheduled events and lectures designed to strengthen the academic, business and research ties between the UA and its alumni.

A second agreement, between the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Emirates Group Security, will develop security training and education for Emirate Airlines. UA alumnus Abdullah Al Hashimi is a divisional senior vice president for Emirates Group Security.

UA and Saudi Universities Partner on Farming Solutions By: Jay Gonzales, UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences The idea that it takes millions or billions of dollars to make a significant difference in social agriculture is being dispelled by the University of Arizona and Saudi Arabia institutions.

Working in partnership to develop pilot farming projects with price tags of less than $50,000, the institutions

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NOVATION • SOLUTIONS are advancing social agriculture to help farmers achieve economic profitability while promoting environmental sustainability.

By definition, “social agriculture” and “strategic agriculture” are the development and implementation of strategies that provide farmers — in this case from villages in Saudi Arabia — access to technology, solutions and innovations, said Turki Faisal AlRasheed, a graduate of the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a faculty member.

Al-Rasheed is leading the effort with Joel L. Cuello, a UA professor of biosystems engineering, and Kevin M. Fitzsimmons, a UA research scientist and CALS director of international programs.

“We’re not reinventing the wheel,” AlRasheed said during a recent visit to the UA. “We’re basically writing an agriculture strategy for every region of Saudi Arabia, and then we want to put together a master plan for the small-scale farmer that we want to have implemented as a national strategy.”

The model is relatively simple: Work directly with farmers to identify problems and find effective, low-cost solutions as they try to sustain their business.

Al-Rasheed worked with three Saudi universities — Ha’il, Al Baha and Al Kharj — to help identify villages the UA contingent could visit to meet with farmers, analyze their issues and problems, and determine if there was an opportunity to help.

The group visited three villages near Ha’il in the summer of 2015 with a plan to look for effective strategies that would require little funding but make a big and immediate impact.

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A Market Strategy If there were preconceived notions that the problems the group would find would all be related to the science of agriculture, they were dispelled immediately when the primary problem they encountered in the villages was marketing.

“It was actually surprising because we were thinking maybe it’s the water, maybe it’s the soil. And indeed those were concerns for them,” Cuello said. “But in at least two villages, the most pressing problem they had was marketing their produce.”

The issue, Cuello said, is that all the farmers in the villages deal with middlemen to sell their products, primarily into the three urban areas of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam.

But the farmers have no idea of the supply and demand, nor of the market prices.

“They have phones. They have Macs. So we thought, ‘What if we designed an app that would actually report to them on a daily basis the prices in these three market centers?’

And that’s precisely what we chose to do,” Cuello said.

Fitzsimmons said a problem is that one village might be selling to one city, whereas a different city may be in need of produce.

“If they could find that information, they could find a much better opportunity to sell to one city rather than to another that has four farmers supplying the same product. It’s a communication issue,” he said.

The group plans to get the app into the hands of the farmers in a few months

and hopes to have tangible results to demonstrate how such a small effort can have a high impact for the farmers. Then the plan would be to take that model to other villages, even other countries, to help farmers sustain their businesses.

“It’s cut and paste,” Al-Rasheed said.

“When this works, we do it again. It’s very simple.”

The Role of Universities Offshoot benefits exist. One is getting academics from the Saudi universities into the field where the knowledge they pass on to students in class also can be used to develop real-world solutions to pressing problems. This is not how universities have historically operated in Saudi Arabia, Al-Rasheed said.

And getting that effort moving is exactly what the UA, as a land-grant institution, is tasked with, Fitzsimmons said.

“What we’re trying to do is work with the Saudi faculty members collaboratively when we do these types of projects so it’s not just us going back and forth or other people from the UA going over for extended periods of time. It’s training them so they can do this type of outreach and education, incorporating the concept of social agriculture.”

Al-Rasheed said another hoped-for side benefit of the group’s work is to show the Saudis that farming can be a viable business in an effort to stem the tide of people leaving the rural areas to settle in urban centers.

Added Cuello: “Ultimately, what social or strategic agriculture aims to achieve is (to) work out appropriate public-privateacademic partnerships that will allow agriculture in Saudi villages to remain economically viable.”

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By: La Monica Everett-Haynes, Communications

A new cross-border agreement signed by the University of Arizona and the National Association of Universities Polytechnic in Mexico will result in more Mexican students pursuing advanced studies and research opportunities in Tucson.

The agreement ceremony was held in the Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Aid for Rural Mexican Students The UA’s Office of Latin American Partnership Initiatives is facilitating the agreement, which involves dozens of polytechnic campuses in Mexico that are specifically targeting students in rural areas — and those who have interests in hightech disciplines.

“We are so lucky to be this close to Mexico to encourage this type of partnership,” said Nadia Alvarez Mexia, director of the office, which is housed within UA Global Initiatives. Alvarez Mexia traveled to Mexico for the signing with documents from Andew Carnie, the UA Graduate College dean.

Higher-education sectors and governments on both sides of the border are working to build greater capacities for binational access to graduate degrees and also research, innovation and economic development.

“The U.S. is seen as the door of the world, and it is well known for its research intiatives,” Alvarez Mexia said. “Often, institutions in Mexico are trying to offer the best opportunities that they can, but they sometimes do not have the same resources.”

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institutions in Mexico and other countries around the world.

“This agreement advances our status as a preferred and trusted institutional partner supporting higher education in Mexico,” said Mike Proctor, UA’s vice president of global initiatives.

Extension offices to help build a comparable land-grant network in Mexico.

Called the Red de Extensión e Innovación Nacional Universitaria, also known as project REINU, it is a national universitybased network of scientists and educators who provide resources and educational services across the country.

In particular, the agreement will support research stays for students and promote cooperation for the development of interinstitutional research projects and mobility teachers.

And the University maintains a partnership with the National Council for Science and Technology, also known as CONACyT, Mexico’s equivalent of the National Science Foundation, which funds faculty.

A Premium on Partnerships The UA, under the charge of its Never Settle strategic plan, has greatly expanded its international partnerships to accelerate bilateral and inter-institutional student engagement and mobility, and also research and innovation.

Among numerous other examples campus wide, UA President Ann Weaver Hart and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, or UNAM, signed a memorandum of understanding earlier this year to establish a Center for Mexican Studies at the UA. The UA also has led a number of outreach efforts through its statewide Cooperative

The new partnership in Mexico builds on an earlier collaboration between the UA and Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa, and will focus on training students for master’s and doctoral degrees to work in areas that include energy, information systems engineering and mechatronics.

“In Mexico, there are few other ways for low-income classes to gain mobility.

Studying in a high-tech university can bring more opportunities to students,” Alvarez Mexia said.

In 2012, and under the supervision of the UA Graduate College, the UA and Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa collaborated to offer new research opportunities for undergraduate students (continued on page 28)

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Above: Students gather outside of the Student Union at lunchtime, Ocean University of China, Quingdao, China. Photo courtesy Dale LaFleur.

UA Launches First Dual Degree Law Program in China By: UA James E. Rogers College of Law

Rogers College of Law.

An innovative partnership with Ocean University of China is hailed as a response to the globalization of legal practice.

Students in the program will earn an LLB (the law degree commonly offered outside the United States) from OUC and a Bachelor of Arts in Law from the UA — taking the same U.S. law courses and receiving the same legal training as UA bachelor’s in law students in Tucson.

The University of Arizona has received accreditation to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Law in Qingdao, China, through a dual degree program at Ocean University of China, or OUC. The degree program is the first U.S.-China joint offering in law available fully in residence in China.

The UA-OUC program, which allows Chinese students to earn undergraduate law degrees from both universities in four years, launched in fall 2015 with an inaugural class of 77 students and is expected to grow to 400 students at full capacity.

“This dual degree partnership responds to the globalization of legal practice and takes the University of Arizona to students who would not otherwise have access to a high-quality U.S. legal education,” said Brent White, associate dean for programs and global initiatives and professor of law at the UA James E.

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In fall 2014, the UA became the first U.S. university to offer a Bachelor of Arts in Law domestically. That degree program now has 300 students, all of whom are eligible to spend up to one year studying law at OUC. Marc Miller, dean of the James E. Rogers College of Law, said, “The creation of the B.A. in Law in partnership with the UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the UA School of Government and Public Policy opens the door to these types of global partnerships, since law is overwhelmingly studied at the undergraduate level around the world.”

All required law courses will be offered at the UA’s new location on OUC’s campus in Qingdao, China, although students will have the option to complete a portion

of their studies in residence at the UA’s Tucson campus.

Students will spend the first two years completing coursework for the Chinese LLB and UA general education requirements, in addition to English language training under the supervision of the UA Center for English as a Second Language. During the third and fourth years, students will complete their bachelor’s in law coursework.

“China is the second-largest economy in the world and has become the United States’ largest trading partner,” said Andrew Comrie, UA provost and senior vice president of academic affairs.

“Both countries benefit from a better understanding of our economy and our laws. The University of Arizona partnership with Ocean University of China serves a pressing need for bilingual lawyers competent in both legal systems.”

OUC is a comprehensive research university with 17 colleges and more than 45,000 students, including those at the undergraduate, master’s, doctoral and continuing education levels.

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partnership meetings.

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Mark Charnley, the regional manager of South Asia and North America at Flinders University in Australia, said Global Partner Day was a great place to meet people and learn more about the UA. He also hopes Flinders University can get more of their students study abroad opportunities through this international connection.

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On Friday, Global Partner Day participants toured the UA campus, attended four presentations on global partnerships and UA research at the Environment and Natural Resources 2 Building (ENR2) and later toured unique spots on UA campus.

The second-annual Global Partner Day was held at the University of Arizona on May 27, 2016, as a lead up event to the 2016 Annual NAFSA conference and exposition in Denver, Colorado.

Attendees of Global Partner Day traveled from around the globe to join the UA Office of Global Initiatives faculty in activities around the UA starting with a keynote address from Dr. Bashar Rizk, OCAMS Instrument Scientist from the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

Tours included a look into the Bio 5 Institute located near the UA Medical Center, the Tree Ring Lab, the Mirror Lab located under the Arizona Stadium and a tour of the residence halls located on Highland Avenue.

Participants were also treated to a networking breakfast, lunch and dinner, tours of world-class research facilities around campus, social events and

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Charnley also said the experience was a perfect way to find international collaboration opportunities with the UA in developing partnership programs, creating

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Each year, the Office of Global Initiatives and Center for English as a Second Language present three Global Excellence Awards.

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opportunities for recruitment and new initiatives that will benefit both Flinders University and the UA. Sara Troy, director of program development for CEA Study abroad in the U.S., said it was a great opportunity to learn more about the UA, how the UA educates its students and explore any opportunities that are available for students.

2015 Global Excellence Awards

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Marita Mau, University of Konstanz, Germany with with Dr. Paulette Kurzer, SGPP.

These awards recognize individuals and groups who have produced a substantial impact in the areas of international service or international education. This year’s group is no exception.

The impact this group has had on the global presence of the University of Arizona and Southern Arizona are a key part of our reputation as a hub in a global knowledge network. The 2015 winners were:

Excellence in Global Service: Margaret Zanger, professor of practice, School of Journalism. Margaret Zanger holds a Master of Study in Law from Yale Law School. She serves on the

Governing Board of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a National Resource Center on the Middle East. She is an affiliated faculty with the Southwest Initiative for the Study of Middle East Conflict. She recently completed a three-year, $1 million partnership to assist an Afghan university develop a journalism department. She was instrumental in starting the Border Journalism Network and the Center for Border and Global Journalism. Her research focuses on international journalism; media, conflict, and humanitarian crises; and media development.

Student Award for Global Excellence: Adrian Arroyo Pérez, Ph.D. Candidate, Higher Education. Adrian’s work has been instrumental to develop, grow, and diversify the Latin American Undergraduate Summer Research Program since its inception. (continued on page 28) global.arizona.edu

Engaged Learning Abroad As the University of Arizona works toward providing engaged learning opportunities for all students, UA Study Abroad and Student Exchange has taken a leadership role in developing diverse engagement opportunities around the world.

These programs take many forms, most notably: Service Learning, Field Schools, Internships, and Research. Each of these offers students the opportunity to experience their field of study in a comprehensive way while abroad.

Service Learning Service Learning programs are structured learning experiences that combine community engagement, service and reflection. Students engaged in service learning work on projects based on community-identified needs and learn about the context in which service is provided, the connection between their service and academic coursework, and their roles as global citizens. The UA currently offers Service Learning programs in several locations including Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico andGuatemala The Accelerated Public Health in Cusco, Peru, combines core coursework with service learning to help students build a strong commitment to community service and social responsibility, and equip health professionals with community-oriented competencies necessary to practice in today’s changing world of public health.

Students involved in this program learn about Peruvian healthcare while serving the local community on topics related to nutrition, respiratory health, clean water, and sustainability.

Internships Internship programs offer students the opportunity to gain professional experience during their time abroad. This allows students to gain highly-valuable global experience that is vital in today’s global workplace. Internships are offered in business, health, STEM fields and others.

The Australian National University is one of Australia’s leading national universities, and ranked amongst the top 100 in the world. The Australian National Internships Program (ANIP) gives Australian and International undergraduate and

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postgraduate students an opportunity to work at the heart of Australian policy and politics. The elite program arranges 13 week research-orientated internships at a variety of Canberra and NSW locations.

Interns develop career and research skills while building professional networks that can give them an advantage in a competitive employment market.

Field Schools Field Schools provide a chance for students to conduct hands-on field work.

The primary objective of field schools is to provide students with opportunities to apply their classroom learning in a fieldbased setting, particularly in the areas of archeology or environmental and cultural resource management. The UA currently offers field schools in Italy, Australia, Egypt, Namibia and Rwanda.

Desert Ecology and Conservation Biology in Namibia provides an opportunity to conduct hands-on field research while learning about different ecosystems, their conservation status and management options within the Namibian context.

Students experience Namibia’s extraordinary natural beauty by visiting field research stations, reserves, national parks and conservation organizations.

The Arizona in Italy Archaeological Excavation is a unique 4-week summer opportunity that allows students to actively participate in the Campo della Fiera Field School outside of Orvieto. The excavation examines ancient Etruscan artifacts, including buildings, tombs and roads. It is an excellent introduction to archeological digs and tremendous experience for more advanced students.

Research Research opportunities allow UA students to take their lab-based research methods and experience and apply them in a global context. This allows students to understand the cultural, societal and historical differences of a particular region. The UA currently has 12 research programs in fields from Computer Science to Environmental Studies.

The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) offered through the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH-Aachen) is designed to give students hands-on experience with a research team in fundamental engineering projects at one of the top universities of science and technology worldwide. The program consists of two weeks of intensive language training and eight weeks of work on the assigned project. Scholarships and local excursions are offered.Through these experiential learning program models, students develop an understanding of global issues and worldwide impact of individual and systemic actions while respecting diverse viewpoints. As part of Study Abroad & Student Exchange’s commitment to 100% Engagement, Global and Intercultural Comprehension will be at the heart of the curriculum and assignments throughout these programs.

Students in Namibia; Photo by Hans-Werner Herrmann.

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Endowment to Expand Persian and Iranian Studies at UA Program’s executive committee, which includes faculty experts from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences as well as other colleges across campus.

The holder of the endowed professorship, the Roshan Institute Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies, has not been named.

In addition, the grant from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will be used to:

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u Support academic programming on topics such as ancient Iranian languages and religion, Iranian Sufism, and Iranian arts and literature.

By: Lori Harwood, UA College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

u Expand UA connections with academics in Iran.

A $2 million commitment from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute will be used to bolster the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences’ scholarly depth in Iranian and Persian studies, the University of Arizona announced.

u Increase academic and extracurricular activities by bringing in visiting scholars.

The Persian and Iranian Studies program, offered by the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is already among the largest in the United States.

The grant will facilitate the creation of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies and support the program’s components, including a new endowed faculty chair and an endowed professorship, the Master of Arts and doctoral programs that are currently under development, and programmatic activities. The first $1 million of the grant has been received.

Kamran Talattof, a professor in Middle Eastern and North African Studies whose work focuses on issues of gender, culture and Persian language instruction, will hold the Roshan Institute Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies. Talattof, who initiated the grant process, also will serve as chair of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary

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u Support community outreach activities such as conferences, symposiums, film series, lectures and cultural celebrations. u Provide access to an electronic database on Persian texts, translation and criticism.

The grant puts the UA closer to its goal of raising $1.5 billion during Arizona NOW, the comprehensive fundraising campaign distinguished by its unprecedented scope and focus on improving the prospects and enriching the lives of the people of Arizona and the world. Thanks to the generosity of nearly 85,000 distinct donors, the campaign is well ahead of pace, with more than 90 percent of the goal already raised.

Endowed chairs advance the UA in perpetuity by supporting faculty year after year using the payout from the gift’s principal amount. With government funding for higher education at a historic low, endowments are increasingly important to recruit and retain exceptional faculty.

“I am very grateful to Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute for this transformative grant,” said John Paul Jones III, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral

Sciences. “It will enable us to build upon the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies’ already strong program in Persian and Iranian Studies while advancing interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching in the historic and contemporary dimensions of this important world region.”

“As a global university with strong partnerships in and around the Persian Gulf region, the UA is well positioned to make further important contributions to the interdisciplinary study of Persian language, culture and heritage,” said UA President Ann Weaver Hart. “International partnerships of the kind that this gift is designed to encourage are absolutely critical for the future of the UA, and I am very grateful for Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute’s continuing generosity.

I look forward to the impact that this gift will have here at the UA and around the world.” ~ Ann Weaver Hart

Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute supports cultural and educational activities that help the transmission and instruction of Persian language and culture. Founded in 2000, the institute has awarded millions in grants for the strengthening or establishment of academic Persian programs throughout the world.

“We are pleased to establish the first Roshan Institute graduate program at the University of Arizona, home of one of the oldest and strongest Persian programs nationwide,” said Elahé Omidyar MirDjalali, chair and president of Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute. “The vision for the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies is to support research, teaching and programmatic activities that are necessary (continued on page 28)

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Welcoming Students from Mexico to the UA campus

The Latin American Summer Research Program was launched at the UA to support undergraduate students who are juniors or seniors at their home universities and are interested in graduate studies in the U.S. (Photo by: Frank Camp)

By: Office of Global Initiatives In 2014, President Obama and President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico discussed how to address the small number of students studying between Mexico and the U.S. Each country developed programs aiming at sending 100,000 students to the other country by the year 2020.

To help them reach this goal, several programs have been developed to welcome students from Mexico to the UA campus.

Two such programs are the Latin American Summer Research Program and a summer Architecture Seminar in partnership with the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture and the Instituto de Tecnológico de Monterrey Sonora Norte Campus. These programs brought a total of 31 students to campus this summer.

in pursuing a graduate degree in the U.S. The LASP has been positioned as one of the best international research programs for undergraduate students across the country.

Daniel Zayas, an industrial engineering student from the Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, said he came to the UA to expand his knowledge on his future career in engineering through the Latin American Summer Program. He is currently developing a computer simulator to develop and analyze manufacturing and service systems.

“I think it is a big opportunity for me and for the students that come to this program because we learn more English and learn more about our careers,” Zayas said, “we learn how to talk with people from the United States, learn the culture and make new friends.”

Summer Architecture Seminar

Bridges of Understanding and Collaboration

The Summer Architecture Seminar hosted 14 architecture students from the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Sonora Norte Campus with a focus on heritage conservation and regional architecture. Dr. Brooks Jeffery, Associate Vice President of Research, was fundamental to the development of this collaboration between the two universities. This summer, the students participated in a threeweek intensive seminar with Dr. Suzanne Bott of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture.

The Latin American Summer Research Program, now in its 10th year, has also helped many students go on to complete their master’s degrees and PhDs here at the UA.

Latin American Research Program “A Learning Research Experience”

Consul Pineda reiterated that these programs have created a bridge of understanding and collaboration between Mexico and the U.S. that has continued to grow over the years. He added, “We are very lucky to have this progress and to be fostering this type of change.”

The Latin American Research Program lasts 10 weeks and was created for undergraduate students from Latin America who are juniors or seniors at their home universities and are interested

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One such student, Ricardo Palos Pacheco, a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemistry, presented to the students during the Graduate School Symposium. This symposium was an opportunity for the students to learn about pathways to graduate school here at the UA.

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STUDENTS

Grand Prize Winner: Peter Kraemer “Sunrise” Hot air balloons as seen from the top of a pagoda in Bagan, Myanmar (Semester at Sea, Spring 2015)

Each year the winners and all of the 150+ submissions to our annual study abroad photo contest represent the UA’s diverse array of programs, locations and students. These images were our photo contest winners for 2015.

Awards for the 2016 Photo and Video Contest will be presented at a public reception in the Student Union Gallery on Tuesday, Nov 14, from 4:00PM - 6:00 PM. Come join us!

See all photos here: goo.gl/Es5fjx

Winner of Cultural Snapshot category: Kaitlynn Williams “Bedouin at Petra” A Bedouin man waits to offer donkey rides to international tourists.

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Winner of Landscape and Nature Category: Brett Jordan “City Along the Sea” A lookout point on the western coast, Cinque Terre, Italy (Mediterranean Diet and Health, Summer 2015)

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StudyAbroad Photo Contest Winners

Winner of the ‘Where’s Your Classroom’ category: Julianne Stanford “Stain Glass Silhouettes” A window inside of the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Siena, Italy (Arizona in Italy, Summer 2015)

Winner of School Spirit category: Amanda Horrigan “Beardown” At the end of a 6 mile long hike through the Swiss Alps, Interlaken, Switzerland (Arizona in Italy, Spring 2015)

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AWARDS Many UA faculty and international students have won diverse awards in 2016 for their continual dedication to their education and career.

Here are but a few of an impressive list of recipients.

A sterling example of the success and potential of the UA’s international dual Ph.D. program, sociology Desi RodriquezLonebear received a Health Policy Research Scholar Fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Rodriguez is working toward a Ph.D. in sociology from the UA and a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Desi’s primary research interest is Indigenous demography and was one of 40 scholars selected to be a Health Policy Research Scholar.

The only graduate student on the committee, Rodriguez was selected based on her expertise and research of hard-tocount populations. Her appointment was just extended for another three years, which she says “shocked” her.

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Shayan Khoshmagham

Alex Chibly

Another prestigious award was given to Tania Eulalia Martínez Cruz called the Mexico’s National Youth Prize for her academic achievement. Martínez holds a bachelor’s degree in irrigation engineering from Texcoco’s Chapingo Autonomous University a master’s degree in agricultural and biosystems engineering from the University of Arizona.

the social and cultural contexts in which these projects take place.”

“My UA degree expanded my research and knowledge, particularly in using irrigation for bioethanol production,” she said. “I also gained confidence in a second language, as I had to manage of team of English-speaking research assistants, and in my skills as a researcher, thanks to an excellent supervisor who motivated and supported me.”

Shayan Khoshmagham, a Ph.D. candidate in Systems and Industrial Engineering (SIE) Department, won first place in the 2016 Grad Slam competition with her presentation titled, “Connected Vehicles – The Future of Transportation,” Khoshmagham is originally from Iran and moved to the states in 2011 to attend graduate school and later receive his Ph.D.

Martínez Cruz is pursuing her doctorate with the Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands and conducting research through the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, or CIMMYT, based in Texcoco. She fortifies her agricultural work with research in socioeconomics, rural sociology, cultural anthropology and other social sciences.

“I feel committed to giving something back to my country, and the area where I can do it is in the agricultural sector,” she said. “The technical background is important, but so are the social aspects.

I want to help agricultural projects reach more people who have been marginalized, and to do so, I have to better understand

International students at the UA also won awards this year for their hard work at the 2016 UA Grad Slam competition, which is a campus-wide competition for the best 3-minute talk about graduate student research and discovery.

“As a big fan of the TED Talks, I thought it would be a great opportunity for me to try presenting my research in front of a public audience in a limited amount of time,” he said.

The central theme of Khoshmagham’s presentation was about utilizing emerging technologies in the field of transportation to improve the safety and mobility for users in the system through “Connected Vehicle Technology.”

Alex Chibly, a UA Cancer Biology GIDP doctoral student from Durango, Mexico, received second place at the UA Grad

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HONORS

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Alyssa Goya

Slam for his talk on “Saving lives one salivary gland at a time” and also got second place in the 2016 Statewide Grad Slam competition against NAU and ASU in Phoenix, where he received an additional award of $2,000.

Chibly’s presentation focused on the idea that there are currently hundreds of thousands of cancer patients who receive radiation therapy as a treatment, and a significant number of them suffer from lifelong side effects of the radiation.

“Grad slam is a great opportunity to show that and to highlight the importance of international students in the scientific community,” he said.

University of Arizona alumna Maria Andrade, a plant scientist whose research led to the introduction of nine droughttolerant varieties of sweet potato to farmers in Mozambique, is one of four individuals who received the 2016 World Food Prize. Andrade graduated with bachelors and master’s degrees from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

The award recognizes the achievements of those who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world.

“Some of the UA’s most important contributions come through the accomplishments of our graduates,” said President Ann Weaver Hart. “We are honored to see Dr. Maria Andrade recognized as part of the team at the

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International Potato Center that earned what has been described as the Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture.”

back to the U.S. in two years, she believes her whole perspective on the world will be completely different.

A turning point in Andrade’s career came when she was given the opportunity to join the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture and work in southern Africa.

This exposed her to the international agricultural research environment.

Thandiwe Mweetwa, a master’s student advised by Dr. Dave Christianson, was named one of National Geographic’s 2016 Emerging Explorers. Mweetwa joined 12 other scientists, conservationists, and engineers on the cutting edge of their respective fields who have received the title this year.

Alyssa Goya, a senior in the University of Arizona Honors College studying Global Studies and Spanish, was recently invited to serve in the Peace Corps as an education volunteer to teach 10 to 14 year-olds English at primary schools in South Africa for two years.

“The peace corps is a way to start building upon where I found myself and the experiences that I enjoyed and continue to contribute giving back to the international community,” Goya said.

Goya said one of the best aspects the Peace Corps does that many other programs don’t achieve when sending people abroad to help communities is that the Peace Corps allows the volunteers to live, work and experience the local community the same as everybody else. “You are not living in a nicer part of the city; you are living on their level and getting a true understanding of their experience,” she said.

According to National Geographic, “The National Geographic Society’s Emerging Explorer Program recognizes and supports uniquely gifted and inspiring scientists, conservationists, storytellers, and innovators—explorers who are already making a difference and changing the world.”

Mweetwa will be honored at a celebration in Washington, D.C. in addition to being profiled in National Geographic magazine.

She will also receive a $10,000 prize to be used toward furthering her research on lions in Zambia.

Goya is excited to live in South Africa and experience a new way of life, as well as learn a new foreign language that she has never spoken before. When she returns

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ALUMNI By: Alyssa Schlitzer UA Alum and Professor of Astronomy at the University of Chile, Mario Hamuy Wackenhut, has become the Chairman of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) in Chile.

This honor was announced by President Michelle Bachelet who was accompanied by the Minister of Education Adriana Delpiano in La Moneda in March 2016.

The mission of CONICYT in Chile is to advance the training of human capital by promoting, developing and disseminating scientific and technological research in line with the National Innovation Strategy. The aim is to contribute to Chile’s economic, social and cultural development.

Hamuy studied physics at the University of Chile, pursued a Ph.D. in astronomy

at the University of Arizona and later became a professor in the Department of Astronomy in 2011. Throughout his career, he has published 151 times, including a co-authorship of five articles published in the journal “Nature.”

One of Hamuy’s most important contributions was when he contributed to a team that won a Nobel Prize in Physics in the Calan/Tololo project which discovered the accelerating universe and a new component of dark energy that constitutes 70 percent of all energy in the universe.

The UA and CONICYT have an extensive history. The UA’s Latin American Summer Research Program was designed as part of an institutional collaboration between the UA and CONICYT Chile. Dr. Maria Teresa Velez, former associate dean of the Graduate College, negotiated this initiative with CONICYT Chile in 2011.

Professor Schmidt received undergraduate degrees in astronomy and physics from the University of Arizona in 1989, and completed his astronomy master’s degree (1992) and doctorate (1993) from Harvard University.

Before becoming vice-chancellor and president of ANU, Schmidt received many academic awards and distinctions for his work. The most recent awards he received were the Breakthrough Prize in Physics and the Elected Honorary Fellow of Indian Academic of Sciences in 2014.

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By: Alyssa Schlitzer Brian P. Schmidt AC FAA FRS, a University of Arizona alumnus, was appointed vice-chancellor and president of Australian National University (ANU) in January 2016.

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Professor Schmidt is the 12th ViceChancellor of ANU and the 2011 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Schmidt was also an astrophysicist at the ANU Mount Stromlo Observatory and Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics before becoming vice-chancellor.

When asked what his goals for ANU are, he answered, “my job is to make sure that it delivers great research, a great teaching program, and gets out and shares its knowledge with the rest of the world, transforming society in the process.”

Mario Hamuy Wackenhut

Since then the program has been under the administration of the Office of Latin American Partnership Initiatives (OLAPI) coordinated by Dr. Nadia Alvarez Mexia.

OLAPI is now joining Global Initiatives to continue offering this academic experience to Latin American students including CONICYT scholars.

ANU, one of the world’s greatest universities, holds a special status in Australia as the “national university.”

Schmidt said becoming Vice-Chancellor was a “big step up” for him to run a billion dollar organization, but he is ready for the challenge.

Schmidt’s first goal is to set a vision for ANU and deliver for Australia as the national university in 2016, 70 years after the university was born.

More than anything Schmidt wants ANU to do great things. Whether it is, along with the UA, to help create the first giant optical telescope, The Giant Magellan Telescope, and use it to discover the first stars in the universe or to bring about understanding indigenous Australians to all of Australia and the world.

“Business as usual is not what is needed, being prepared to tackle and answer the big questions of the universe, of humanity, that is what I am after,” Schmidt said.

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Joel Cuello (center) with Secretary Fortunato de la Pena of the Department of Science and Technology (second from right) and officials of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) of the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of NAST). Joel Cuello Professor Joel Cuello fine tunes the Accordion photobioreactor at the UA Campus Agricultural Center.

Joel Cuello, professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was elected as corresponding member of the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) of the Philippines.

He was chosen in recognition of his “significant contributions in sustainable biological and agricultural engineering systems… Among his outstanding works are algal bioreactor systems and a hybrid

By: Justin Boro 2016 IPLP Graduate Appointed to UN Forum Elifuraha (Eli) Laltaika, ’16, has been appointed to the United Nations Permanent Elifuraha Laltaika Forum on Indigenous Issues (UN Permanent Forum).

solar-electric lighting system for bio regenerative space life support at NASA.” His investiture took place during the NAST 38th Annual Scientific Meeting held on July 14, 2016 in Manila, Philippines. NAST Philippines was founded in 1976 through a presidential decree, and carries out the formal “function of advisory body to the President of the Republic of the Philippines and the Cabinet on policies concerning science and technology in the country.”

Professor Robert A. Williams, Jr., E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Chair of the IPLP Program, noted that together with the appointment of IPLP alumna Erica Yamada to the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, “the IPLP Program now has two SJD alumni serving on the two UN Bodies with the specific mandate to promote indigenous peoples’ human rights within the UN system. No other law school or university in the world can say that right now.”

Cuello has served as technical advisor to the Philippine Congressional Commission on Science, Technology and Engineering (COMSTE). He was elected to the Philippine American Academy of Science and Engineering (PAASE) in 2012 and, during the same year, also served as member of the U.S. National Academy’s Committee on the Sustainability of Algae Biofuels in the United States\

u develop strategies to increase meaningful participation of indigenous groups within the UN system u increase indigenous peoples’ access to justice u identify barriers to the implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Laltaika says he is “profoundly thankful to everyone at IPLP. The program has The UN Permanent Forum is one of the been both a training ground and source main UN Bodies promoting indigenous of inspiration; its experiential learning peoples’ rights. The forum is responsible environment allowed me to interact with for facilitating dialogue with indigenous renowned professors, friendly staff, local Just a month after completing his Doctor of peoples on salient issues and convening indigenous communities, international Juridical Science (SJD) from the Indigenous indigenous groups, UN Member States, UN practitioners, and brilliant students from Peoples Law and Policy (IPLP) Program, Agencies, and other stakeholders in order diverse backgrounds. Thanks to the skills Laltaika was appointed to serve on the to: I honed at IPLP, I will make meaningful UN Permanent Forum as an expert on the contributions advancing indigenous intersection of economic development, u produce research and recommendations peoples’ rights.” environmental protection, and the for relevant UN Bodies related to the protection of indigenous peoples’ human protection and promotion of indigenous rights. peoples’ human rights

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New UA Film Grad Embraces China Project

Kaylah Rasmussen. Above: traditional fishing vessels, with downtown Xiamen inthe background. Photo courtesy: wikimedia

By: Lisa Pierce - UA School of Theatre, Film & Television As part of “Looking China,” Kaylah Rasmussen had two weeks to make a short documentary film in the Xiamin Province — and was mostly on her own Kaylah Rasmussen, newly graduated from the University of Arizona, took a trip of a lifetime, embarking on a project in a country where she doesn’t speak the language.

Rasmussen answered the call from China when it asked for students who had never been there before to visit — and to make a documentary about the experience. She was selected after applying last December.

When Lisanne Skyler, a professor in the UA School of Theatre, Film & Television, emailed students about the opportunity, Rasmussen thought she would be a good match for the project. She is thirdgeneration half-Chinese, interested in learning more about China and its people.

The project, called “Looking China,” will put to work 100 young filmmakers from around the world, making documentary shorts about the country they view through their lenses. The themes for this year are charm, ethnography and culture.

The program starts June 20 and goes for two weeks. It won’t be a vacation.

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“I may get one day to enjoy the city as a tourist, but it could also be a day to help me find my way,” Rasmussen said. “It’s a work trip.”

The province to which she has been assigned is Xiamen, in southeast China near the East China Sea. Other students are assigned to different places in the country, in different parts of the summer.

“I have four days to shoot, so I am restricted to the coastal regions,” said Rasmussen, who may create a documentary that focuses on fishing practices.

“It’s one of the best places for photography and the most rural,” she said.

“They do traditional fishing to acquire mussels and use electric rods to lift eels out of the sand. I’d like to live in their shoes for a day. It’s so different from how we live here in America — especially the desert.”

Rasmussen admitted that the focus could change completely once she is in China.

“I am prepared to change ideas, and that’s what makes filmmaking so difficult,” she said. “I can go through mapping everything out to the final frame and then circumstances change. Something could be flooded. The location might not be available. I will figure it out as I go. I always have a backup plan. That’s what filmmaking is about.”

All of the visiting filmmakers participating in the project will be assigned student translators. Rasmussen said a Chinese university student will assist her, acting simultaneously as a first assistant director or producer. But that person is all the help she will get.

“I took two semesters of Mandarin Chinese,” Rasmussen said. “Language is the hardest thing for me because I am a visual person. It’s a hard language, but it’s a very pretty language. The hard parts are the (written) characters.”

Xiamen University will provide a dorm room for her while she works. The money to pay for the trip comes from that university, she said.

“If it’s anything like film school (at the UA),” she said. “It’s going to be a very intense and hectic two weeks. It’s not going to be a break. Filmmaking is the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. It requires you to do everything.”

As for crossing the ocean and being nearly 7,000 miles from home, Rasmussen said: “I like growing that way. The more uncomfortable you are, the more you grow.”

Since this story originally ran, Kaylah has traveled to China and completed her film titled “Dancing on the Mud” which can be seen at http://bit.ly/2e1ftyx”

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Nine Wildcats Participated in the 2016 Summer Olympics The University of Arizona is proud of our current and former student-athletes who have participated in the Summer Olympics. A Wildcat has appeared in every Summer Olympics, besides the 1956 games, since 1952. Arizona’s largest contingent came at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where 28 Wildcats competed in 45 different events. Congratulations to our incredible international and domestic student athletes. (Above: Pau Tonnesen. Photo by Sydney Richardson/The Daily Wildcat) Puerto Rico

RAFAEL QUINTERO, DIVING,

South Africa

MICHAEL MEYER, SWIMMING, Men’s 400 individual medley event

Slovenia

10 metre platform event, finished seventh among 28 competitors

TJAšA ODER, SWIMMING, Women’s 800 metre freestyle

South Africa

BRAD TANDY, SWIMMING, 50 metre freestyle event and placed 6th overall

United States

KEVIN CORDES, SWIMMING, 100 Breast (4th), 200 Breast (8th), 400 Medley Relay (Prelim) (Gold Medal)

Spain

PAU TONNESEN, TRACK AND FIELD, Men’s Decathlon (17th)

United States

BERNARD LAGAT, TRACK AND FIELD, 5,000 Meters (Volunteer Assistant Coach) (5th Place)

Canada

SAGE WATSON, TRACK AND FIELD, 400-Meter Hurdles (11th Place), 4x400-Meter Relay (4th Place)

Mexico

ALEJANDRA LLANEZA, GOLF, Stroke Play (T-44th Place)

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International Research Development Grant The purpose of the International Research Development Grant (IRDG) program is to provide travel support to tenured and tenure-eligible faculty for the development or continuation of international research. Only current research projects of exceptional value or proposed research activity of exceptional promise will be funded. The award is limited to a maximum of $1,500 for airfare assistance only. This grant is administered and funded by the Office of Global Initiatives.

2015 Fall – 2016 Spring Recipients and Country Visited: Anne (Betsy) Arnold

Professor

School of Plant Sciences

Chile

Craig Aspinwall Professor Chemistry and Biochemistry Sweden Julia Cole Professor Geosciences Australia Benedict Colombi

Associate Professor

American Indian Studies

Russia

Rachel Gallery

Assistant Professor

School of Natural Resources and the Environment

Colombia

Julie Iromuanya Assistant Professor English Nigeria Pinnaduwa Kulatilake

Professor

Materials Sciences and Engineering

China

Jaeheon Lee

Associate Professor

Mining and Geological Engineering

Republic of Korea

Lois Loescher

Associate Professor

Behavioral Health Science Division

Australia

Matthias Morzfeld Assistant Professor Mathematics Germany William Simmons

Associate Professor

Gender and Women’s Studies

South Sudan

Shu-Fen Wung Associate Professor Nursing Taiwan

Visiting Scholars Grant The Visiting Scholar Grant (VSG) provides funding to assist departments in bringing distinguished international scholars to The University of Arizona. The funds are to be used for domestic portions of airfare only (between U.S. port of entry and Tucson, AZ). The funds cannot be used for overseas or international portions of travel. Clear evidence of cost-sharing from at least two UA funding sources must be shown (not including VSG funds). The Office of Global Initiatives has made $5,000 available for this fiscal year to directly fund the VSG. The maximum award amount is $400 per award. The VSG requests can be submitted at any time. This grant is administered and funded by the Office of Global Initiatives.

Spring 2016 Visiting Scholars Grant Awardee: Host Department: Visiting Scholar: From:

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German Studies Sebastian Kürschner Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nümberg, Germany

Featured IRDG Trip Reports The following are reports received from 2015 IRDG recipients discussing the work they did during their time abroad. Reports are edited for length. u Matti Morzfeld Together with senior researchers at the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, I investigated if simple (low-dimensional) models for Earth’s magnetic dipole can be used to predict geomagnetic dipole reversals a few millennia ahead of time. To reach this goal, we first calibrate the models to 2 Myrs of paleomagnetic data using Bayesian statistics and then benchmark model-based predictions against purely data-driven methods. We find that the models indeed improve the forecast capability.

The next steps in this project include improving the low-dimensional models to be more “Earth-like”, and to make use of vast amounts of simulation data from 3D-dynamos to obtain better and more reliable reversal statistics. During my trip, I also presented this work at Deutsches Geo Forschungs Centrum (GFZ) Potsdam (Germany), the University of Potsdam, and the University or Reading (UK).

u Shu-Fen Wung Atrial fibrillation is the most common cardiac arrhythmia. Atrial fibrillation increases stroke risk by 3- to 5-fold and heart failure by 4-fold. Atrial fibrillation increases cognitive impairment, dementia, hospital admission, and mortality. In patients age 65 years or older with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation, the risks of death and stroke are higher in Blacks and Hispanics compared with Whites. Research on incidence or risk factors of atrial fibrillation in Asians is very limited.

Myself and Dr. Pei-Chao Lin, an assistant Professor, School of Nursing Kaohsiung Medical University, met in July 2016 to work on our proposed activities funded by the Office of Global Initiatives. These included: 1) performed systematic review on genetic markers and shared risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke; 2) identified

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three genetic markers to perform our initial meta-analyses on the shared risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke in overall population and racial/ethnic subgroups; and 3) planned directions for future collaborative projects on shared genetic risk of atrial fibrillation and stroke in Chinese population.

Our collaborative effort to understand racial-ethnic differences in genetic risk factors associated with atrial fibrillation and stroke can help to identify targets for pharmacological and non-pharmacological personalized prevention and treatment strategies for Chinese and Chinese Americans. In addition to the above listed activities, we also prepared a manuscript entitled “Meta-analysis of the relationship between peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARG) rs1801282 polymorphism and gestational diabetes mellitus” to be submitted to PLOS ONE in the immediate future.

u Pinnaduwa Kulatilake I reached Wuhan, China on June 17th evening and visited Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute (CRSRI) during June 18-19, 2016. CRSRI conducted a 2-day symposium with respect to the meeting between me and the CRSRI researchers.

On June 18th CRSRI researchers gave nine lectures. Presentations were of high quality. The laboratory and field equipment and facilities CRSRI used in the research projects were excellent to outstanding.

After each lecture, I was requested to comment about the material covered in the lecture. I commented on the strong aspects as well as weak aspects of each lecture. For certain lectures I made comments to improve the future research.

Also, I mentioned that we can engage in collaborative research to improve and extend the research. In the morning of June 19th I gave three 1-hour lectures.

These lectures were mainly given to point out the different areas that I can get into collaborations with CRSRI researchers.

The material covered in these lectures was very well appreciated by CRSRI. The afternoon of June 19th was spent discussing possible ways that CRSRI can collaborate with me.

At the end of the discussion we proposed to collaborate on the following issues: (a) Staff training at CRSRI by teaching short courses by Prof. Kulatilake on Civil Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering topics: each short course will be covered during two full days or 4 half days depending on CRSRI preference. (b) CRSRI sending visiting research scholars (financially supported by the CRSRI) to the University of Arizona to work with Prof. Kulatilake’s research group on Civil Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering projects. (c) CRSRI researchers giving research seminars at CRSRI in front of Prof. Kulatilake and requesting Prof. Kulatilake to comment on strong and weak points of the presentations and then to comment on ways to improve the research content and research directions if possible. (d) Develop collaborative research proposals with CRSRI researchers using the research strengths of both groups to seek research funding from Chinese government and industry funding agencies.

CRSRI will explore the possibility of preparing joint research proposals to submit to the following funding agencies to seek funding for joint research: - National Natural Science Foundation of China - Ministry of water resources, China - China Three Gorges Corporation - China Xinhua Hydropower Company Limited - Changjiang Institute of Survey, Planning, Design and Research - Center Yunnan Water Diversion Project Construction Company

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Aid for Rural Mexican Students (continued from page 10) from Mexico, pairing them with University faculty members. Maria Teresa Vélez, associate dean of the Graduate College, was a key supporter of crossborder, collaborative partnerships.

“The feasibility and effectiveness of links between universities can arise due to the world prestige of the UA,” said Ismaylia Saucedo Ugalde, a professor and academic program director of engineering in computer science at Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa. “We are confident that our students will have the competencies and skills to be successful.”

The Office of Latin American Initiatives Partnerships has faciliated those research experiences. All told, about 220 students sponsored by countries that include Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico have since been engaged through programs offered in the summer, winter and fall.

From Internships to Industry Michelle Quintero was living in Mazatlan when she learned about the collaboration. During her studies at the Universidad Politécnica de Sinaloa, she was able to gain a one-year, researchfocused internship at the UA toward her professional goals to work in the pharmaceutical industry.

“I was able to put my English into practice, and I also expanded my resumé

by reinforcing my skills in the laboratory,” said Quintero, who now lives in Tucson and is in the process of applying to master’s degree programs in chemical engineering. “Since the UA ranks among the best global universities, students from Mexico can expand their resumé and find great job opportunities.”

Alvarez Mexia also points to political and social changes in Mexico driving the need for partnerships with global institutions such as the UA. She explained that access to higher education in Mexico historically has been reserved for individuals from higher socioeconomic backgrounds. A more recent emphasis has been on expanding competency-based higher-education access at all levels, with a strong emphasis on science and technology.

Also, Mexico has experienced a greater influence from countries that include Korea and Japan, which is influencing the need for stronger workforce development countrywide, Alvarez Mexia said.

Alvarez Mexia said that in addition to building the engineering capacity, the country is encouraging more training toward professorships.

“Some states in Mexico are beginning to welcome international companies for business that bring job opportunities,” she said, “and these are not just workers — these are careers.”

Persian and Iranian Studies at UA (continued from page 14) for the training of Persian and Iranian studies scholars and Persian language teachers. We are delighted to partner again with the University of Arizona, knowing that our first graduate program is uniquely poised to make a real impact for generations to come.”

This is the institute’s second grant to the UA. In 2003, Talattof worked with Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute to establish a $300,000 endowment in the UA School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies to provide fellowships to outstanding graduate students in Persian and Iranian studies.

With the support provided by this new endowment — which comes from the Roshan Cultural Heritage Fund, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation — Talattof says the UA is on its way to having one of the best Persian and Iranian studies programs in the country.

“There are perhaps 20 universities in the United States where Persian language instruction has been offered substantially and for any significant length of time,” Talattof said. “Of these, a few have offered specializations or higher degrees. However, these numbers constantly fluctuate, indicating the volatility of the field in the face of sociopolitical changes and economic conditions. The Roshan Program will be a secure, nationally recognized home for the continuous pursuit of excellence in Persian and Iranian studies.”

2015 Global Excellence Awards (continued from page 12) Since 2012 he has worked as a coordinator for the program. His background in STEM fields, with a B.S. in Chemistry, Pharmacology, and Biology and research experience in molecular biology, makes him particularly aware of the needs of STEM education in a global context. Adrian is very active in recruitment of Latin American top undergraduate students and has strengthened partnerships with Latin American universities and the University of Arizona.

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Excellence in Global Education: Ricardo Castro-Salazar, Vice President for International Development, Pima Community College. Ricardo CastroSalazar has dedicated his career as an educator to promoting the understanding of global interdependence, international connections, and the influences of diverse cultures in US society. He holds MA degrees in education and international topics from the US, Mexico and the Netherlands, as well as a doctoral degree in intercultural education from the UK.

He began working for Pima Community College (PCC) in 1994 as an intern in their Office of International Projects. Since then, he has served as Lead International Business Faculty, Department Chair, Academic Dean, Executive Assistant to the Chancellor, and now as the Vice President for International Development.

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The Fulbright program is the leading international educational exchange program sponsored by the United States government.

Visit www.cies.org/us_scholars for information on the Fulbright Scholar Program.

FULBRIGHTS are World Citizens Office of Global Initiatives The UA has long been a top producer of recipients of Fulbright scholarships, which, in this case, support funding for students to spend one year abroad teaching, study and conducting research.

Students also design a communitybased project associated with their scholarly work.

This year, several UA students and alumni were awarded and accepted Fulbrights under the U.S. Student Program for work abroad during the 2016-2017 academic year. They include: u Robert Alvarez, Master’s student in public administration, graduated May 2016; won a Fulbright Clinton Fellowship to Guatemala.

Florence Durney is a PhD student in anthropology; won a Fulbright research grant to Indonesia. u

u Fiona Gladstone is a PhD student in geography; won a Fulbright research grant (public policy initiative) to Mexico. u Eric Heffter is a PhD student in anthropology; won a Fulbright research grant to Serbia. u Raj Lodhia was a Master’s student in public health; won a Fulbright Clinton Fellowship to Samoa. Raj graduated in May 2015. u Jonathan McLeod is a PhD student in anthropology; won a Fulbright research grant to Indonesia.

u UA Fulbright Scholar

Recipients ‘16-’17:

u Catherine Salgado graduated May 2016 with a BA doublemajoring in Spanish and Creative Writing; won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Portugal.

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Tanner Weigel graduated May 2016 with a BA double-majoring in History and Spanish; won a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship to Spain.

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The UA is proud to host more than 50 visiting international Fulbright student recipients. These students are pursuing masters’ and doctoral degrees in academic programs across campus. Upon completion of their degrees, they will return to their home countries having been enriched by their Arizona Fulbright experience.

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over 500 teaching, research or combination teaching/research awards in over 125 countries.

Opportunities are available for college and university faculty and administrators as well as for professionals, artists, journalists, scientists, lawyers, independent scholars and many others. In addition to several new program models designed to meet the changing needs of U.S. academics and professionals, Fulbright is offering more opportunities for flexible, multi-country grants.

The 2018-2019 Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program competition will open in February 2017:

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John Ehiri �����������������������������������������������������������������Nigeria Public Health, Maternal and Child Health

Jerzy Rozenblit �������������������������������������������������������Poland Computer Engineering & Design

Recipient 2016:

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u UA Fulbright Visiting Research Chair

Indigenous Entrepreneurship ‘16-’17:

u Visiting Fulbright Scholar

Recipients ‘16-’17:

Haitham I A Ayyad �����������������������������������������West Bank Palestine Polytechnic University Arnold Gucsik ����������������������������������������������������� Hungary University of Debrecen Merengege Gimhani Chayanika Padumadasa ������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Sri Lanka University of Sri Jayewardenepura Bjoern J Stensaker �����������������������������������������������Norway University of Oslo Leslie Toralba Ubaub ������������������������������������Philippines University of Southeastern Philippines

2016 Institutional Partners The Office of Global Initiatives acts as a centralized hub for the development of collaborative research agreements, faculty development/capacity building, dual degrees, undergraduate transfer articulation agreements, intern options for undergraduate international students who are not already at the UA, and sponsored programs to name a few. Below is a list of institutional partnership agreements signed over the last year. For more information on partnership development with institutions abroad, please go to this address: global.arizona.edu/global-knowledge-network/institutional-partner-database.

COUNTRY

PARTNER INSTITUTION

DEPARTMENT

UA FACULTY SPONSOR

Argentina

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Argentina

Spanish and Portuguese

Marcela Vasquez

Australia

The Australian National University

Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy Steve Cornell

Australia

University of Technology, Sydney

Office of Global Initiatives

Randy Burd

Australia

University of Western Australia

Office of Global Initiatives

Mike Proctor

Chile

Universidad Adolfo Ibanez

Spanish and Portugese

Malcolm Compitello

China

Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Public Health

Zhao Chen

China

Hohai University

Arizona Research Labs

Theodore Downing

Ecuador

Universidad de Cuenca

College of Medicine

Ron Pust

Egypt

American University in Cairo

Near Eastern Studies

Mahmoud Azaz

France

Universite de Rennes I

Materials Science & Engineering

Pierre Lucas

Germany

Federation of German-American Clubs

German Studies

Barbara Kosta

India

Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Material Science and Engineering

Srini Raghavan

Indonesia

University of Papua

Environmental Sciences

Larry Fisher

Iraq

University of Erbil

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Lisa Adeli

Italy

Universita Deglia Studi Dell’Insubria

Natural Resources

John Koprowski

Japan

Doshisha University

East Asian Studies

Albert Welter

Japan

Shimane University

Geosciences

David Dettman

Japan

Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology

Agriculture and Life Sciences

John Koprowski

Japan

Chuo University

East Asian Studies

Albert Welter

Malaysia

WorldFish

Masters of Development Practice

Kristina Bishop

Mexico

Binational Border Health Network, Mexico

Public Health

Cecilia Rosales

Mexico

Mexico Section of the US-Mexico Border Health Commision

Public Health

Cecilia Rosales

Mexico

Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

School of Government and Public Policy Brint Milward

Mexico

El Colegio de Sonora

Public Health

Jill de Zapien

Mexico

Universidad Anáhuac México Norte

Journalism

David Cuillier

Mexico

National Polytechnic Universities Association, AC

Office of Global Initiatives

Nadia Alvarez

Netherlands

Tilburg University

School of Government and Public Policy Brint Milward

New Zealand

University of Auckland

Office of Global Initiatives

Mike Proctor

Philippines Russia

University of the Philippines-Manila St Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics

Nutritional Sciences Office of Global Initiatives

Randy Burd Mike Proctor

South Africa

Stellenbosch University

Physics

Bruce Barrett

South Korea

Chonbuk National University

James E. Rogers College of Law

Brent White

Spain

Fundacio Centre de Recerca en Epidemiologia Ambiental

Arizona Respiratory Center

Elizabeth Firmage

Spain Sweden

Universitat de Barcelona KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Tracey Osborne Dennis Doxtater

United Arab Emirates

Emirates Group Security

Geography College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

John Paul Jones, III

United Arab Emirates

Ministry of Environment and Water

Agriculture and Life Sciences

Joel Cuello

United Kingdom

University of Leeds

James E. Rogers College of Law

Brent White

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New Data Portal Reveals UA’s Global Landscape By: Alyssa Schlitzer The Office of Global Initiatives at the University of Arizona has launched Maps.Global, an international data portal that allows the UA community to explore the global landscape of the University.

Maps.Global is a data mapping platform designed to warehouse and discover patterns within UA international data. It makes pertinent information available to researchers, community members, administrators and more.

The Maps.Global user is able to explore hundreds of institutions around the world with which the UA maintains formal agreements. A comprehensive map of the UA’s global alumni can be viewed by home city and country. A real-time analytics engine reveals degrees awarded by type, discipline, city and country.

Try it now!

1. Go to maps.global.arizona.edu 2. Click on the “FUNDING” icon 3. The dots demonstrate areas where active grants are available 4. Click on one of the dots 5. Grant opportunities are listed; most feature direct links to their corresponding application process page

An Opportunity Tracker map enables the user to see the kinds of opportunities that the Office of Global Initiatives is pursuing for the UA. The Maps.Global platform also shows where the UA’s international students come from and sorts study-abroad opportunities.

Maps.Global is an MVC application authored in C#, SQL Server and the Google Maps API.

COLLEGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE Faculty Representatives, 2014 – 2017 Alberto Arenas, Ph.D. College of Education SevaPriya Barrier, J.D. Dean of Students Office Anne Betteridge, Ph.D. (ex officio) Center for Middle Eastern Studies Professor Andrew Carnie (ex officio) Graduate College Professor Thomas Cockrell College of Fine Arts Professor Malcolm Compitello College of Humanities Bradley Dreifuss, M.D. College of Medicine

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Professor Beatrice Dupuy (ex officio) Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy Professor John Ehiri College of Public Health Professor James Field College of Engineering Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Professor Benjamin Fortna (ex officio) School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Professor Hoshin Gupta College of Science

Professor Mary Hardin College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Professor Christopher Scott College of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Professor Michael Katz College of Pharmacy

Justin Walker, MBA College of Optical Sciences

Sean Manley-Casimir (ex officio) Executive Director, CONAHEC

Professor Albert Welter (ex officio) School of International Languages / Literatures and Cultures

Marylyn M. McEwen, Ph.D. College of Nursing Coach Erik Omar Guzman Ojeda Arizona Athletics Suzanne Panferov, Ph.D. (ex officio) Center for English as a Second Language

Professor Brent White College of Law Professor Cynthia White Honors College Daniel Zeng, Ph.D. Eller College of Management

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