Complutense Universidad de Madrid

• In February 1992, an exploratory visit to the Complutense Universidad de Madrid by a number of faculty members resulted in several specific initiatives for scholarly collaboration. Penn's delegation to Madrid included Professors Peter Berthold, Eduardo Glandt, Francis Johnston, Charles Mooney, and Mary Naylor. The following are among the projects that have been initiated as a result of this visit:

• The anthropology department will jointly sponsor with physical anthropologists in Madrid a NATO seminar, to be held at El Escorial in Spain in 1993. Other projects will include faculty exchange and are expected to extend to cultural anthropology. In addition, several Penn graduate students will be invited to participate in an ERASMUS seminar on evolution in 1993.

• The chemical engineering department launched an exchange program in which Penn undergraduate chemical engineering students participate in summer laboratory research internships. In exchange, Complutense will send faculty or postdoctoral scholars to Penn for specified periods of research.

• The School of Dental Medicine has agreed to student exchanges for short-term practica, which will be followed by faculty exchange and collaborative research.

• The Law School will engage in information and bibliographical exchange to allow both schools access to resources about each country's legal systems. Faculty exchange activity in international law has been proposed, to begin in the spring of 1993.

• The School of Nursing will provide assistance in developing an undergraduate degree program at the Complutense. A Complutense faculty member is expected to study in the combined bachelor/master's degree program at Penn; faculty exchange will be used to develop the Complutense's academic program.

• Professor Russell Sebold, of the Romance Languages department, was invited to teach a graduate seminar at the Complutense in May and June of 1992. The department expects to receive a Complutense faculty member in a subsequent academic year.

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Almanac

January 12, 1993
Volume 39 Number 17

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