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Exchange projects with Chinese schools moving forward
The distance between Iowa State and China is shrinking. President
Martin Jischke led a five-person ISU delegation to China, June 21
to July 5, opening doors for several ventures between ISU and
Chinese universities.
"China has many outstanding scientists with whom we would
like to collaborate, and there are many educational opportunities
in China for ISU students," said Jischke, the first ISU president
to travel to China while in office.
Traveling with Jischke were Stan Johnson, vice provost for
extension; John Kluge, professor of veterinary pathology; Daniel
Fang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; and David
Acker, director of international agriculture programs for the
College of Agriculture.
Details were finalized for a student study abroad program
open to students from all ISU colleges, and several ISU colleges
and departments are finishing agreements for research
collaborations with Chinese universities.
Other research projects will involve horticulture, forestry,
livestock embryo transplantation, corn breeding, and seed testing
and certification. Several engineering projects are in the works
with Qinghua University in Beijing, considered China's leading
science and technology institution.
Officials continued work on an agricultural economics outlook
and policy analysis project already under way between ISU's Center
for Agricultural and Rural Development and the Chinese Academy of
Agricultural Sciences' Institute of Agricultural Economics.
Other ISU-China ventures discussed include an exchange
program between Chinese and U.S. university leaders beginning in
1998; an agricultural reform conference in Beijing, tentatively
scheduled for next spring; an agribusiness center in China that
would promote commercial activities with the United States; and a
possible ISU agribusiness M.B.A. program in China.
Steve Jones, News Service
Jischke witnesses end of colonial era
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