SIMPSON, on FINAL OVERSEAS TRIP AS PRESIDENT, GIVES KEYNOTE in CHINA Alumnus Named Prime Minister of Somalia
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO UBUB INTERNAINTERNATIONALTIONAL UB INTERNATIONAL UBUB INTERNAINTERNAFATIONALTIONALLL 2010 VOL. XIX, NO. 2 CONTENTS SIMPSON, ON FINAL OVERSEAS TRIP AS PRESIDENT, GIVES KEYNOTE IN CHINA Alumnus Named Prime Minister of Somalia........2 ohn B. Simpson, who will retire on among the foreign dignitaries invited to UB Ranked 12th in January 15, 2011, made his last inter- speak at the forum, delivered his address, Open Doors 2010...........3 Jnational trip as UB president in mid- “The Role of Research Universities in Re- October 2010, traveling to China to de- gional Economic Development,” near the liver a keynote address at an international beginning of the program on October 15, Social Work Research Center in India.................4 Doctoral Research..........5 CIRRIE Refunded............6 Confucius Institute...........7 International Awards......8 Arts Exchange in China...9 Walt Hakala......................10 Faculty Fulbright to the Philippines........................11 President Simpson (2nd from left) with other Forum speakers, including BJUT President GUO Guangsheng (2nd from right) and CNU President LIU Xincheng (4th from right) Çatalhöyük Project.......13 forum hosted by Beijing University of immediately following the president of BJUT, Technology (BJUT), on the occasion of GUO Guangsheng. that university’s 50th anniversary celebra- Among the other keynote speakers at the Borges Symposium......14 tion. forum was Professor LIU Xincheng, who The visit also marked the 30th anniver- once came to UB as a visiting scholar and is Barcelona Partnership..15 sary of UB’s landmark exchange agree- now President of Capital Normal Univer- ment with BJUT, which was the first es- sity—also a partner of UB for the past three Humphrey Fellows......16 tablished between a U.S.
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