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News release prepared by: Emily Vietti, 785-532-2535, evietti@k-state.edu

Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010

PARTNERSHIP WITH ARGENTINEAN UNIVERSITY KICKS OFF

MANHATTAN -- Two Kansas State University professors recently traveled to Argentina to kick off an international institutional cooperation between K-State and the University of Lanus, or UNLa, in Buenos Aires.

The institutional agreement was developed last summer after Gabriela Diaz de 1xbet online casino , instructor of women's studies, and Marcelo 1xbet online casino , associate professor and head of the philosophy department, presented the idea to authorities at the University of Lanus. Their trip was supported by a grant from K-State's office of international programs.

To begin the partnership, Diaz de 1xbet online casino and 1xbet online casino lectured at UNLa in November on the concept and current mission of a land-grant university.

"The UNLa is an innovative, public university that is developing a concept that follows, in part, our land-grant model," 1xbet online casino said. "As such, the institutional receptivity is in place for a variety of initiatives."

Diaz de 1xbet online casino said, "We were very impressed by their institutional involvement with the agreement. After our talk, Ana María Jaramillo, UNLa's president, held a reception for us where main administrators and many faculty were present."

The collaboration allows for the possibility of research collaboration between various K-State departments and different UNLa programs, such as the university's Center for Human Rights, Center for Research in Ethics and Center for the Study of Resiliency. A permanent study abroad option every summer in Buenos Aires, including visits to rural communities in northern Argentina, is also one of the main components of the partnership.

&1xbet online casino ;UNLa is working to include future research and seminars done in collaboration with K-State within the framework of a project to internationalize Argentinean college education, &1xbet online casino ; said Nerio Neirotti, UNLa's academic vice president.