The network's benefits are many. Members may set up student, faculty, and professional exchanges, research and internship possibilities, expand study abroad programs, explore international business opportunities, and form ties in a global economy. What it does is establishes a true international perspective. The network also works with people interested in forming associations in countries where there are a substantial number of people with Utah ties. A professor at the Universidad de la Republica in Uruguay, Margolis was a graduate student in the same medical informatics program as Huber.
Students have fewer opportunities.
He also hopes network members will come to his university as guest lecturers and set up exchanges of information and resources. That is vital for a financially strapped university. They are very good links for us scientifically. Back in Utah, students about to leave for international study stop by the International Center almost daily to join the network. Students who go abroad often go into professions overseas and become valuable contacts for the U in the business world, Sharp says.