# Presentation: 357650

## INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT

***INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT***
***THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA***

**Richard C. Powell**
***Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies***

** ****Institutional Profile**
**  ****- AAU**
**  ****- Land-Grant**
**  ****- Medical School**
**  ****- Research-14**
**  ****- Study Abroad-8**
** ****Outline of Talk**
**  ****- Rationale**
**  ****- Examples**
**  ****- Challenges**

## RATIONALE FOR INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

** ****Global economy with internationalization of workforce**
**  ****(outsourcing, H1B visas, scientific research)**
** ****US universities attract international students **
**   ****(best & brightest fill high tech jobs)**
** ****Cultural friendships**
** ****Enhanced educational environment**
**   ****(3000 students; 800 scholars; 130 countries; 1700 UA faculty)**

- International experience in curriculum:
-  success in a global society
-  enhance image of US
- Examples at undergraduate, graduate and research levels

## Funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NIH and NSF

**Funded by Howard Hughes Medical Institute, NIH and NSF**

**BRAVO! is designed to:**

**promote international understanding by enabling **
**students in the sciences to participate in research  **
**abroad related to the research they do at the  **
**University of Arizona, and**

**advance collaborative projects involving UA biomedical    **
**     ****behavioral scientists and scientists in other countries.**** **

*Gives undergraduate students an opportunity *
*to become part of the international community by*
*conducting research in another country.*

##  BRAVO

**SINCE 1992 BRAVO HAS HAD:**
** ****110 STUDENTS**
** ****23 COUNTRIES**
** ****61 PUBLICATIONS**
** ****65 PRESENTATIONS**
** ****REVERSE VISITS BY**
**  ****- 15 FACULTY MEMBERS**
**  ****- 16 GRADUATE STUDENTS**

- Research Experience
- Selection Process
- Newsletter
- Talk
- Ambassadors

## INTERNATIONAL 

**ARID LANDS CONSORTIUM**

*AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS IN 1989 AS AN INDEPENDENT NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION TO SUPPORT RESEARCH ON ECOLOGICALLY SOUND DESERT MANAGEMENT*

- University of Arizona                   South Dakota State University
- University of Illinois                     Egypt Ministry of Agriculture
- Texas A&M                                  Jordan Council for Science
- New Mexico State University      Jewish National Fund
- Desert Research Institute (Nevada)

## INTERNATIONAL 

**INTERNATIONAL **
**ARID LANDS CONSORTIUM**

**Peace Fellowships Program**
** ****Provides opportunities for students to conduct **
**  ****arid lands research abroad and **
** ****To contribute to the Middle East peace process**
** ****Research Areas include**
**  ****- water management, **
**  ****- land use, **
**  ****- soil conservation, or **
**  ****- ecosystem processes.**

***IALC has an outstanding record of research achievement in problems such as desertification, which know no borders, and can foster genuine cooperative solutions.***

## LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE

- LBT

-  Two 8.5m primary mirrors
-  Adaptive optics secondaries

- PARTNERS:
- University of Arizona
- Germany
- Italy
- Ohio State University
- Research Corporation

- Largest, most scientifically advanced ground-based telescope

## LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE

- Located on Mt. Graham

-  FACULTY EXCHANGES
-  STUDENT EXCHANGES

##  OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

** ****Geosciences - African Great Lakes**
** ****Optics - Mexico  **
** ****Space Science – ESA**
** ****Sister Institution – University of Florence**

## CHALLENGES

**VISA DELAYS:**
** ****Chinese post-doc**
** ****German Scientist**
** ****Visiting Scientists **
**   ****from Switzerland,**
**   ****Turkey, Jordan**

**ITAR – Canadian scholar**
***MISPRECEPTION*****:** US DOES NOT
-   WELCOME INTERNATIONAL
-   STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS
-   - DECREASE IN FOREIGN
-    STUDENT ENROLLMENT

*Difficult to maintain a free, open exchange of information and people*

## OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (OSA)

**15,000 MEMBERS, 33% NON US**
**50 COUNTRIES**
**61 % AUTHORS NON US**

**DECREASE IN **
**INTERNATIONAL**
**ATTENDEES AT MEETINGS**

## CONCLUSIONS

** ****INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS AT **
**  ****UNIVERSITIES ARE IMPORTANT TO FUTURE **
**  ****ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND FOR**
**  ****SOLVING SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS**
** ****SLOW, COMPLICATED, EXPENSIVE   **
**  ****VISA PROCEDURES, REGISTRATION  **
**  ****FEES (SEVIS) DETERRING FOREIGN**
**  ****STUDENTS & SCHOLARS**
** ****US LOSING ROLE AS PREFERRED**
**  ****DESTINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL**
**  ****STUDENTS; (K-12 STATISTICS)**