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KU expands relationship with Costa Rican university

The long-standing relationship between the University of Costa Rica and KU will continue to expand as the result of an award from the Costa Rica-USA Foundation to support and strengthen KU and UCR faculty exchanges.

The $60,000 award over three years matches the $60,000 administered through the Office of International Programs for KU and UCR faculty to develop joint research projects. Ongoing collaborations funded by KU are in the Schools of Social Welfare, Journalism, Education and Pharmacy and in the Center for Bioinformatics and Deparmtnents of Molecular Biology, Biology Economics and Political Science.

The foundation is a non-profit organization that promotes cooperation between Costa Rica and the United States by supporting projects in technical cooperation, technological transfer and capacity building.

Faculty members may apply for grants for up to $5,000 per year, renewable for up to three years. Projects must establish and strengthen institutional relationships in research activities between specific KU programs, departments, and schools and their UCR counterparts and have potential for external funding. The application deadline is Oct. 15. Contact Associate Dean Thomas Heilke, heilke@ku.edu, for more information.

NOTABLE ALUMS

KU and Harvard are still the only universities that presently can claim two elected women governors as alums – Kansas' Kathleen Sebelius, who earned a MPA degree, and former Arizona Gov. Jane Dee Hull, an education graduate. However, if Kerry Healy is elected Massachusetts governor in November KU will fall behind Harvard.