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International On-line
Vol. 5, No. 6
November 15, 2006
Affirming a Commitment to Global Learning
www.las.iastate.edu/students/international/
LAS International On-Line is the bi-monthly on-line publication
of the International Programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. LAS
International is part of LAS' on-going efforts to coordinate all aspects of
international activities within the College including international studies,
study abroad, exchange agreements, research and outreach.
Features
GLOBETROTTER - Responsibilities of a four-month Fulbright Fellowship
would be enough for most people. Richard Mansbach, professor of political science,
isn't content to stay in Vienna during the 2007 spring semester where he will
serve as a Fulbright instructor at Austria's Diplomatic Academy.
"I tell my students that if they learn nothing else they should see the
world through the eyes of whom they are studying and not just late 20th century
Americans," Mansbach says.
Mansbach will take his own advice this spring when he visits more countries
in a four-month span than most tourists do. In the process, he's on a speaking
engagement tour that would make many professional speakers envious.
Next February Mansbach is scheduled to give presentations in Norway, Finland
and Germany. After this non-stop lecture tour, he stays in Vienna for a few
weeks before hitting the road again. This time he has speaking engagements at
Israel, Switzerland and Slovenia.
"I also have an invitation to speak at Trinity University in Ireland,"
he said. "That's it so far. I can do more but I have to do something in
Vienna."
For his Fulbright Fellowship, Mansbach will be training diplomats from throughout
the world at Austria's Diplomatic Academy. He's scheduled to teach two post-graduate
courses on international political theory as well as a short course on U.S.
foreign policy.
To learn more about Richard Mansbach’s whirlwind European speaking tour
go on-line at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/mansbach1113.shtml.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY - Off and on these past couple of years, Nathan
Forsythe talked to Paul Spry, professor of geological and atmospheric sciences,
about the possibilities of continuing his studies as a master's student at Iowa
State.
"I had classes with him when I was an undergraduate and we talked about
ideas for a master's project," Forsythe said. "Dr. Spry had several
contacts in Australia and thought it would be a possibility."
That possibility became a reality in September of this year when the first-year
graduate student spent three weeks in the South Pacific. Only it wasn't Australia
but rather remote areas in Fiji's Upper Sabeto River.
One of Spry's contacts is Alcaston Mining, a Western Australian mining company.
The firm was interested in getting Forsythe to Fiji to map the area, take core
samples for possible gold mining, and eventually provide analysis on those samples.
Forsythe had barely started his master's work when he soon found himself in
Fiji for three weeks. He's doing his master's thesis on the geology and geochemistry
of gold and copper mineralization in the Upper Sabeto River.
Read more on Nathan Forsythe’s Fiji adventure on-line at www.las.iastate.edu/newnews/students1113.shtml.
Study Abroad
CHINA - The 2007 Global Careers and the Cultural of China study tour
will be held May 9-24, 2007. The trip is designed to give Iowa State students
in any major an opportunity to meet Americans who are currently working professionally
in China, visit their work environments, to hear the stories of how they came
to work there, and to acquire guidance for how to build their own international
career.
Additional information is available on-line at www.las.iastate.edu/students/international/china.shtml.
LAS International On-line
Michael Whiteford, LAS dean
Steffen Schmidt, LAS director of international programs
Dave Gieseke, LAS public relations manager
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