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The University of California maintains an expanding number of academic
links with institutions of higher education in Mexico.
UC and CONACYT
UC and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT) representatives
signed an agreement in Mexico City in July of 1997 that is creating
a generation of scientists, teachers, and leaders who will have
been educated in both Mexico and California.
- UC's campuses have more than 70 CONACYT fellows completing
PhD degrees under a shared cost agreement for graduate training;
this is more than any other university in the U.S. and in the
world. The total will increase to more than 100 in Fall 2001.
- As a result of the UC-CONACYT agreement, more than 170 researchers
from UC and Mexico are working together in fields ranging from
engineering to the humanities. Many of these research projects
deal with issues of common concern to California and Mexico--the
economic, social, and cultural aspects of migration, for example.
Another is the depleted water resources on the Colorado River.
- Starting this year, UC will provide 40 annual fellowships for
UC graduate students to undertake dissertation research or advanced
training at Mexican institutions of higher learning and research.
- UC and CONACYT will this year launch a program that will support
long-term faculty visits in both directions to build lifelong
relationships between our universities and research centers. The
program will involve both young postdoctoral fellows and senior
faculty.
- In addition, UC and CONACUYT are proposing an agreement for
a UC-Mexico Commission on Education, Science and Technology. The
Commission will consist of eight distinguished researchers appointed
by the director general of CONACUYT and the president of UC, along
with two government and two industry/business representatives
appointed by the president of Mexico and the governor of California.
California House
California House in Mexico City, announced by Gov. Gray Davis at
UCLA on March 22, 2001, will house UC's Education Abroad program,
enhance trade and cultural ties between California and Mexico and
provide a central contact point for UC alumni in Mexico.
Internet2
- Students, researchers and faculty at UC and other major universities
throughout the two countries are linked though a high-speed Internet2
interconnection between the California Research and Education
Network-2 (CalREN-2) and the advanced Internet in Mexico deployed
by Mexico's Corporacion Universitaria para el Desarrollo de Internet
(CUDI).
- UC and CONACYT have agreed to issue a special call for proposals
for collaborative research and teaching, using Internet2 technology.
UC and the University of Chapingo
UC and the University of Chapingo in Mexico are instituting
an agreement for cooperation in agricultural research and training.
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