than 10 percent of the total fellowships throughout the U.S., and more than 17 percent of the fellowships awarded to U.S. universities that have an agreement with CONACYT. For 2005-2006, four Master’s students and 18 Ph.D. students will receive the CONACYT fellowships at ASU. These students’ areas of study will include engineering (biomedical, civil, industrial and mechanical), education, microbiology, industrial design, literature, linguistics, biology, mathematics and Spanish. ASU visit enlightens CONACYT leaders Partners define next steps of innovative collaborations Perspectives Pan American Initiatives - Office of the President - Summer 2005 1 During a recent visit to ASU, Jaime Parada Avila, general director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), described ASU’s approach to higher education as “innovative” and “ambitious.” The July 15 visit, hosted by ASU President Michael Crow, included several discussions among top- level administrators throughout ASU and the ASU Foundation. Other participants were Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix, Mayor Hugh Hallman of Tempe, the Mexican and Canadian consuls of Phoenix, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, University of Alberta, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and Tec de Monterrey. The visit also included a tour of some of ASU’s most innovative programs, such as the Flexible Display Center, Biodesign Institute and Decision Theatre. Parada was joined by Efrain Aceves Piña, CONACYT director for international affairs; Fernando Brambila, CONACYT director of networks and consortiums; Jorge Gallardo Casas, representative of CONACYT in the U.S.; and Jesús Gonzalez Hernandez, director general of the CONACYT research center for advanced materials in Chihuahua. “The purpose for our visit was to select the precise areas to collaborate and build a foundation to establish long-term partnerships with ASU,” Parada said. “We are joining efforts to transform knowledge into concrete business opportunities. This partnership is unique, and it will create a new paradigm for collaboration.” The ASU-CONACYT partnership was launched with the signing of an agreement on June 29, 2004, that laid the groundwork for developing interdisciplinary graduate, faculty and researcher exchanges, as well as strategic collaborative research. In addition, this agreement allotted 75 CONACYT fellowships to ASU. During this visit, ASU and CONACYT defined four potential areas that will be featured in projects between both institutions, including border issues, materials science, biotechnology, and the training and education of higher education leaders. Since its creation in 1970, CONACYT, the Mexican counterpart to the National Science Foundation in the U.S., has provided more than 90,000 scholarships for graduate studies in Mexico and abroad. CONACYT has established ongoing partnerships with other U.S. universities, including the University of California, Texas A&M,Yale and Harvard, providing opportunities for researchers from Mexico and U.S. universities to work together in addressing common issues. “We are taking a new approach [with ASU], one that focuses more on the institution as a corporation, not as the individual model for each area of study,” Parada said. Manny Romero from ASU Public Affairs contributed to this article. Pan American Initiatives • P.O. Box 870503 • Tempe, Arizona 85287-0503 • 1(480) 965-0880 • www.asu.edu/OPI director for Pan American Initiatives at ASU, said the new fellows are a direct result of the active marketing and recruitment campaigns conducted by various colleges and departments throughout the university. “It took a collaborative effort of ASU units to make this happen, and now that we have the momentum, we expect even higher numbers next year,” Wulf said. Last year, ASU received six CONACYT fellows in contrast to the 22 fellows starting in fall 2005. The fellowships awarded to ASU this year represent more Within one year of signing an agreement between ASU and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) in Mexico, the number of CONACYT fellowships awarded to ASU students has more than tripled. The ASU-CONACYT agreement includes fellowships for Mexican students to pursue their graduate studies at ASU. Renewed automatically each year, the fellowships cover tuition, a monthly stipend and assistance toward medical insurance. Shannon Wulf, associate Jaime Parada (left), general director of CONACYT, with George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU CONACYT awards over 10 percent of all U.S. fellowships to ASU students Join the OPI Staff OPI is hiring motivated and talented students for various positions in research, writing, event management, graphic design and general administration. Excellent communication skills a must. Graduate or upper- level honors undergraduate preferred. Internship credits and RA positions available. Flexible hours. Send a cover letter, writing sample and resume to [email protected].
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than 10 percent of the total fellowships throughout the U.S., and more than 17 percent of the fellowships awarded to U.S. universities that have an agreement with CONACYT.
For 2005-2006, four Master’s students and 18 Ph.D. students will receive the CONACYT fellowships at ASU.
These students’ areas of study will include engineering (biomedical, civil, industrial and mechanical), education, microbiology, industrial design, literature, linguistics, biology, mathematics and Spanish.
ASU visit enlightens CONACYT leaders Partners define next steps of innovative collaborations
PerspectivesPan American Initiatives - Office of the President - Summer 2005
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During a recent visit to ASU, Jaime Parada Avila, general director of the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), described ASU’s approach to higher education as “innovative” and “ambitious.”
The July 15 visit, hosted by ASU President Michael Crow, included several discussions among top-level administrators throughout ASU and the ASU Foundation. Other participants were Mayor Phil Gordon of Phoenix, Mayor Hugh Hallman of Tempe, the Mexican and Canadian consuls of Phoenix, the Translational Genomics Research Institute, University of Alberta, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte and Tec de Monterrey.
The visit also included a tour of some of ASU’s most innovative programs, such as the Flexible Display Center, Biodesign Institute and Decision Theatre. Parada was joined by Efrain Aceves Piña, CONACYT director for international affairs; Fernando Brambila, CONACYT director of networks and consortiums; Jorge
Gallardo Casas, representative of CONACYT in the U.S.; and Jesús Gonzalez Hernandez, director general of the CONACYT research center for advanced materials in Chihuahua.
“The purpose for our visit was to select the precise areas to collaborate and build a foundation to establish long-term partnerships with ASU,” Parada said. “We are joining efforts to transform knowledge into concrete business opportunities. This partnership is unique, and it will create a new paradigm for collaboration.”
The ASU-CONACYT partnership was launched with the signing of an agreement on June 29, 2004, that laid the groundwork for developing interdisciplinary graduate, faculty and researcher exchanges, as well as strategic collaborative research. In addition, this agreement allotted 75 CONACYT fellowships to ASU.
During this visit, ASU and CONACYT defined four potential areas that will be featured in projects between both institutions,
including border issues, materials science, biotechnology, and the training and education of higher education leaders.
Since its creation in 1970, CONACYT, the Mexican counterpart to the National Science Foundation in the U.S., has provided more than 90,000 scholarships for graduate studies in Mexico and abroad. CONACYT has established ongoing partnerships with other U.S. universities, including the
University of California, Texas A&M, Yale and Harvard, providing opportunities for researchers from Mexico and U.S. universities to work together in addressing common issues.
“We are taking a new approach [with ASU], one that focuses more on the institution as a corporation, not as the individual model for each area of study,” Parada said.Manny Romero from ASU Public Affairs contributed to this article.
Pan American Initiatives • P.O. Box 870503 • Tempe, Arizona 85287-0503 • 1(480) 965-0880 • www.asu.edu/OPI
director for Pan American Initiatives at ASU, said the new fellows are a direct result of the active marketing and recruitment campaigns conducted by various colleges and departments throughout the university.
“It took a collaborative effort of ASU units to make this happen, and now that we have the momentum, we expect even higher numbers next year,” Wulf said.
Last year, ASU received six CONACYT fellows in contrast to the 22 fellows starting in fall 2005.
The fellowships awarded to ASU this year represent more
Within one year of signing an agreement between ASU and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) in Mexico, the number of CONACYT fellowships awarded to ASU students has more than tripled.
The ASU-CONACYT agreement includes fellowships for Mexican students to pursue their graduate studies at ASU. Renewed automatically each year, the fellowships cover tuition, a monthly stipend and assistance toward medical insurance.
Shannon Wulf, associate
Jaime Parada (left), general director of CONACYT, with George Poste, director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU
CONACYT awards over 10 percent of all U.S. fellowships to ASU students Join the OPI Staff
OPI is hiring motivated and talented students for various
positions in research, writing, event management, graphic design and general administration. Excellent communication skills a
must. Graduate or upper-level honors undergraduate preferred. Internship credits and RA positions available.
Flexible hours. Send a cover letter, writing sample and resume to [email protected].
administration in Monterrey.He is also pursuing an M.S.
in electrical engineering from Tec. Jose has been with Pan American Initiatives since 2003 as a research associate specializing in U.S.-Mexico affairs and border issues. A native of Hermosillo, Sonora, Jose received a B.S. in bioengineering from ASU.
Pan American Initiatives • P.O. Box 870503 • Tempe, Arizona 85287-0503 • 1(480) 965-0880 • www.asu.edu/OPI
economy,” she explained. “For example, half of the current population growth is from immigration and we need that growth to have workers to pay into social security.”
As part of her focus on immigration, she is working on what she calls “a day without a Mexican” research, which includes studying the economic effects of one day in Arizona without the contributions of Mexican workers.
“At this point there’s really no way I could guess what the numbers would be,” she said. “However, I think a lot of people would be interested in the results of such economic research.”
Feature PersonaDawn McLaren
Dawn McLaren is fluent in Spanish, but she spends her time translating the language of economics.
As a research economist for the W. P. Carey School of Business L. William Seidman Research Institute, McLaren is part of a team that works to translate economic theory into tangible data for the public.
Established as an economic forecasting unit in 1985, the center provides a public service to individuals and corporations lacking the resources to engage in statistical modeling and computer-based planning.
“We are taking these theories and translating them so that the
McLaren contributes to several leading economic reports and publications including: the Western Blue Chip Economic Forecast; México Consenso de Prognositcos; Blue Chip Job Growth Update; National Consensus Forecast of Labor Employment Compensation and Productivity; Arizona Business Conditions Index; and Arizona Tourism Barometer.
“When a hot issue comes up we look at the economic aspect of it,” she said of the publications.
One of the “hot issues” McLaren is referring to is immigration. She developed interest in the subject after emigrating to the U.S. from South Africa during her youth.
“People don’t realize how important immigration is to the
Translating economics
community can see what’s going on and make good decisions,” McLaren explained.
ASU formalizes partnership with Brazil
Dawn McLaren
innovation and development for the 33-campus Tec system.
She is also in the ASU American English and Culture Program and will begin an ASU Ph.D. program in fall 2006. Monica has held numerous positions at Tec over the past 10 years, most recently as director of communication for the vice
On August 1, 2005, ASU signed an institutional agreement with the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in Brazil.
This agreement formalizes ASU’s institutional relationship with UFRJ and opens the door for new collaborative research and education programs, furthering ASU’s mission to become a New
The presidents of ASU and Tec de Monterrey (Tec) have made an unprecedented agreement to post liaisons at the partner institution to help coordinate and support joint initiatives.
Monica Camacho, Tec liaison to ASU, is housed at ASU’s Pan American Initiatives while reporting to the president of
ASU and Tec house reciprocal liaisons
American University.Founded in 1920, UFRJ is
one of the oldest public higher education institutions in Brazil and shares many commonalities with ASU, such as size and similar fields of knowledge.
Brazilian relations were further developed during a symposium held August 3-4 in Tiradentes,
Brazil, by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) where ASU Center for Film and Media Research Director Peter Lehman and ASU Professor Vibeke Sorensen led a discussion on media, arts and sciences.
Other projects discussed with UFMG included student/faculty exchange and collaborative
research, with the intent of developing a dual Ph.D. program in media, arts and science.
Additionally, a joint project in media, arts and science involving Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES), a department within the Brazilian Ministry of Education, was also discussed.
Jose QuirogaASU liaison to TecPhone: 011-52(81)8358-2000 Extension 6601E-mail: [email protected]
Monica CamachoTec liaison to ASUPhone: 1(480)965-4485E-mail: [email protected]
president of development at TecMilenio. She received an MBA from Tec with a focus on marketing and a B.S. in industrial design from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
Jose Quiroga, ASU liaison to Tec, remains a staff member of Pan American Initiatives while being housed within Tec’s central
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