Asian opportunities

There’s going to be a highly informative triple-header for SAES faculty, staff and students at the Memorial Student Union building on Thursday, March 29, beginning at 1 p.m. The program will start with presentations by high-ranking officials from four Southeast Asian universities with which the SAES has recently signed memorandums of understanding. Study abroad opportunities, and the potential for faculty exchanges and joint research will be discussed. Following the overviews of the four new SAES international partners (the University of the Philippines at Los Baños, Nong Lam University in Vietnam, Bogor Agricultural University in Indonesia and Chiang Mai University in Thailand), senior biological engineering students will present their design for a drip irrigation system for a vegetable farm in the Philippines. The program’s grand finale will be a demonstration of a solar-powered water pump that can pump water at a rate of 25 gallons per minute. The international opportunities overviews and the irrigation presentation will be in Stallings Ballroom in the Memorial Student Union, and the pump demonstration will be just outside the building.

The officials from the SAES’s new Southeast Asian partners will be coming to  Greensboro following two days in Washington for meetings at USDA and other agencies. Dr. Alton Thompson, the SAES dean, and Drs. Manuel Reyes, G. B. Reddy and Godfrey Gayle of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Design will be their escorts.

Posted March 21, 2007 04:27 PM

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