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June 2005
MU delegation travels to South Korea
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| MU Chancellor Brady Deaton. Chancellor Deaton recently led a delegation of MU officials to strengthen historic ties between MU and Korea. |
On a recent visit to Seoul, Korea, MU Chancellor Brady Deaton led a delegation of MU officials to renew MU ties with key South Korean universities during the seventh Harry S. Truman Conference. While on the trip, Deaton signed an agreement with Gyeongsang National University to develop MU's first joint doctorate program in Plant Sciences.
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MU athletics hosts scores of international student athletes
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Na Yang, MU freshman from Shan Dong, China. |
International student athletes make up a sizable portion of MU's world-renowned Division One athletics department, but the extent of their representation is sometimes overlooked. IPFD's Irene Arholekas visits with MU international scholar-athletes and finds their participation thrives in virtually every sport, further proving that the motto, "play hard, study hard" is a sentiment shared around the world.
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New faculty, Greg Triplett discusses first year at MU
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Greg Triplett, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
Colleague Circles participant Greg Triplett shares with IPFD readers the personal side of being a first-year faculty member at MU and offers words of encouragement for new faculty.
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"Colleague Circles"
Mizzou IPFD News, Oct 2004
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Claudia Liddle: Journal from South Korea, Part 1
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Claudia Liddle, sophomore, MU School of Journalism. |
Reporting from Gwangju, South Korea, sophomore Claudia Liddle shares with IPFD readers a student's perspective of MU international programs as she studies Human Development and Family Studies alongside seven MU study abroad students and eight Korean students. Writing in the first of a series of installments, Liddle invites readers to share in her exploration in cross-cultural learning.
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KOMU-TV spotlights Missouri's booming Hispanic population
As the Hispanic population in Missouri continues to sore, KOMU reporters investigate how this booming demographic may be affected by the state in terms of education, healthcare, and economic policies. Offering contributing commentary, Domingo Martinez, coordinator of the MU Cambio Center, delivers valuable insight to KOMU-TV's investigative series.
Part 1: Marshall Grocer
Part 2: Milan
Part 3:
The Economic Impact
Part 4: Healthcare
Part 5: Immigrants' Rights
Symposium spotlights critically acclaimed Afro-Hispanic authors
Calling attention to the struggle that critically acclaimed Afro-Hispanic authors face in getting their works published and recognized in English translation was the focus of the MU international symposium, "Transnational Identities: Afro-Hispanic Literature of European Exile."
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Textbook drive helps tsunami victims
Finding a unique way to help tsunami victims, MU nursing students and faculty at the Sinclair School of Nursing and members of the Missouri Nurses Association (MONA) collected more than 400 nursing textbooks to help restock the Eastern University of Sri Lanka's Nursing School library.
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Profile: Matt Buckley, Special Needs Advisor, Disability Services
Meet Matt Buckley, a recent MU graduate and special need advisor in the Office of Disability Services, and discover how MU is working to promote accessibility both "in attitude and in architecture."
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As our country stands at the beginning of the 21st century, we are now atop a veritable mountain of achievements, victories and accomplishments attainted as a nation born of every culture the world has to offer and deeply enriched by a universe of viewpoints.
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Announcements
3rd Annual International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Health (ICICTH)
The Department of Health Management and Informatics, School of Medicine, at MU together with the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany and the UMIT-University for Health Sciences, Tyrol, Austria will host the 3rd ICICTH, which will be held July 7-9, 2005 on the island of Samos in Greece. For more information, please visit:
http://www.ineag.gr/icicth/
Welcome 2005 Multicultural Teaching Scholars
Both IPFD and the Graduate School would like to welcome the 2005 Multicultural Teaching Scholars; Ms. Germaine "Gigi" Awad, Department of Psychology; Ms. Laurie Samual, Department of Sociology, ; Mr. Fernando Ortiz, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology; and Mr. Nyasha Grayman, Department of Educational, School and Counseling Psychology. For additional information, please visit:
http://gradschool.missouri.edu/
News_Events/MTS_web_announce.pdf
UM South African Education Program Invites Proposals
The University of Missouri South African Education Program (UMSAEP) committee invites proposals for the following programs: 1) The University of Missouri/University of the Western Cape Linkage Program; and 2) The South African Partnerships program. Proposals must be received by July 15, 2005. For more information, visit:
http://www.umsystem.edu/urel/main/
second/wsarfp.shtml
MU students selected to study in India and Tunisia
Congratulations to the four MU students selected to participate in the study abroad summer seminars in India and Tunisia, sponsored by the US Dept. of State to provide undergraduates with opportunities for studying Middle Eastern cultures and languages. Christy Ciolli, Jonathon Coulson, and Maria Howell will join eight other students from US land grant universities on the American Institute on Indian Studies Summer Workshop on Indian Culture from July 1-21, 2005. Travis Rice will travel to Tunisia with fourteen other American undergraduates from June 12-July 1 on the "Tunisia Past & Present" seminar organized by the Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT). Students were selected on the basis of their academic record and their commitment to the goals of the program. There were only 24 slots available nationally, and MU students occupy 4 of them.
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The Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs and Faculty Development (IPFD) would like to hear from you. IPFD welcomes any newsletter submissions that highlight MU international initiatives, faculty development news, and/or disability access issues. Submit your article or announcement by June 1, 2005. For more information contact Daniel Botello at BotelloD@missouri.edu or
573-882-9061.
Editor's Note
Dear Reader,
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet firmly on the ground.” With these words, perhaps he could’ve been saying to us that while the power of our ideas may be the fruit of our humanity, we must never forget the human foundation upon which our intellectual inventions rest.
It seems that every moment of our lives we are inundated with an endless stream of ideas. As Missouri's great state, land-grant university, the University of Missouri-Columbia is in the business of ideas. And yet, somehow the business of ideas, research, and information can never fully encapsulate the essence of what we do.
The ever-present truth is that ideas, discoveries, innovations, and breakthroughs are done only in the service of people. These ideas are intellectually conceived for people, by people, and in the presence of great people; and therefore truly it is people that our ideas aim to serve.
As a tribute to this notion, you will find within this end-of-year edition, a selection of stories illustrating just a fraction of what makes our faculty world-class, our students the best and brightest, our athletes top-notch, and our university leaders internationally versed and globally aware.
Please enjoy the personal insights and stories listed herein by those that help make our university alive and vibrant; and as always, Dear Reader, your comments and contributions are always well-received.
Sincerely,
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