The 91探花 was recently selected as one of ten American universities to host newly established European Union Centers which will promote the study of the EU, its institutions and policies, and EU-US relations through teaching programs, scholarly research and outreach programs.

“The 91探花is now a major player in the field of European studies,” said EU Center Director John Keeler, professor of political science. “This will greatly enhance the UW’s teaching, research and outreach programs related to the EU.”

The 91探花is the only university on the West Coast to have been designated both a National Resource Center for West European Studies by the U.S. Department of Education and a European Union Center.

The 91探花is scheduled to receive nearly $500,000 from the EU over the next three years to fund academic and outreach programs.
During the 1998-99 academic year, the EU Center will host a number of distinguished visiting scholars from Europe. The first, Professor Wyn Grant of the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, will spend the next spring quarter at the 91探花as the first Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence. Grant will teach a course on “Current Policy Debates in the EU” and co-organize with Keeler a conference on tensions between the US and EU in the area of agricultural trade.

The announcement by Ambassador Hugo Paemen, Head of the European Commission’s Delegation to the United States, came at a reception held at the Library of Congress.

The European Union is funding this initiative as part of a broader effort to promote the people-to-people ties outlined in the New Transatlantic Agenda, which provides a framework for EU-US relations.

The EU received 69 applications for EU Centers and interviewed 17 finalists. In addition to the 91探花the nine other universities or consortia selected are:

• University of Georgia/Georgia Institute of Technology
  
• Harvard University
  
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
• University of Missouri-Columbia
  
• New York University/Columbia University/City University of New York
  
• University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill/Duke University
  
• University of Pittsburgh
  
• Scripps College/The Claremont Colleges/University of Southern California
  
• University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  

The European Union Center will be housed along with the existing Center for West European Studies within the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
Upcoming events through the EU Center include: a Boeing-Airbus Symposium; a conference on “From the D-mark to the Euro: Monetary Reform as a Challenge to National Identity in Germany;” a summer workshop on “US-EU Commercial and Political Relations” designed for secondary school teachers in the Northwest, and a module on US-EU relations within a workshop on “Washington State in the Global Economy” designed for newly elected Washington state legislators. The latter two activities will be co-sponsored by the Washington Council on International Trade (WCIT).

For more information about the new EU Center call John Keeler at (206) 543-1675.

The 91探花 will receive $5.9 million in state-of-the-art computer equipment and service from Intel Corp. as part of the company’s $85 million Technology for Education 2000 Program, it was announced today (Aug. 18).

The award was based on an interdisciplinary proposal submitted by 91探花Provost Lee Huntsman. The computer equipment will be distributed to schools and departments as follows:

* College of Arts and Sciences: $1.7 million

* School of Medicine: $730,000

* College of Engineering: $500,000

* Department of Electrical Engineering: $1.46 million

* Department of Computer Science and Engineering: $1.53 million

In addition, 91探花will provide these recipients with space, four new staff positions for two years, and $200,000 funding over five years, according to Huntsman. In his proposal to Intel, Huntsman outlined a three-pronged approach for integrating Intel technology into the UW:

* Improving advanced scientific computing applications in areas such as astrophysics, molecular biotechnology, computational fluid dynamics and virtual reality.

* Providing media applications spanning the traditional discipline boundaries and models for novel Intel architecture applications in education, research, medicine, and entertainment

* Serving the educational enterprise — administrative computing, electronic mail and other critical networking needs. Intel architecture will be incorporated into the 91探花computing infrastructure in ways that will enhance an area that has traditionally been the domain of mainframe or UNIX technology.

The proposal, which will bring together more than 200 faculty, graduate students, researchers and staff from across the campus, will provide an unparalleled testbed for Intel-based technology in a major research environment, Huntsman said. This combined with the fact that the 91探花 is a principal collaborator with many of the other top-tier research universities–Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, and others–ensures that Intel’s latest investment in the 91探花 will have the widest, broadest possible impact and exposure.

Intel’s technology grant program supports university research and curriculum development and puts PCs, workstations, servers and networking hardware based on Intel architecture in key U.S. research universities.

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Marc Lindenberg, a senior vice president with CARE USA, has been selected as the new dean of the 91探花 Graduate School of Public Affairs, 91探花President Richard McCormick announced today (June 3).

Lindenberg, who will assume his position next January 1, replaces Margaret Gordon, who is retiring from the post she has held since 1988 to return to the faculty. His appointment is subject to approval by the 91探花Board of Regents at their next meeting June 13.

“We are very fortunate to have found a person of Marc Lindenberg’s broad range of experience and extraordinary capabilities in this national search,” said McCormick. “He brings considerable leadership skills to our Graduate School of Public Affairs and a number of very interesting new dimensions and perspectives that will enhance an already first-rate public policy school. This is an exciting appointment and a great addition to the University.”

At CARE Lindenberg is responsible for all of CARE-USA’s global programs, worth more than $400 million annually. He has been with the CARE organization since 1992. During his term as senior vice president, CARE mounted major relief operations in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and the CIS. They also substantially altered their approach to sustainable development in Africa, Asia and Latin America by focusing on more integral long term family and community improvements in primary health care, education, water, sanitation, agriculture, and income generating activities.

Prior to joining CARE he was a faculty member at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and spent seven years in Nicaragua in the capacities of rector, professor and academic director at INCAE, the Central American Institute of Business Administration founded in conjunction with the Harvard Business School.

His scholarly publications include “The Human Development Race,” (1993), “Managing Adjustment in Developing Countries: Economic and Political Perspectives,” with Noel Ramirez (1989), and “Central America: Current Crisis and Future Prospects,” (1984). He has also written articles on comparative politics and world politics.

Among his professional activities, Lindenberg served as advisor to Panamanian President-elect Nicolas Ardito Barletta in 1984 and Costa Rican President Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, from 1982 – 85, for Intersectoral Dialogue Programs. He was also a consultant to the dean of the School of Business at Catholic University in Asuncion, Paraguay, 1985 – 87 and recently served as consultant to the United Nations working with its Management Development Program.

A native of Pittsburgh, Pa., Lindenberg graduated from Oberlin College with a B.A. in political science in 1963. He completed a masters degree in public administration and a Ph.D. in comparative administration at the University of Southern California.

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