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Long a magnet for students from all corners of the globe – with up to 93 % of the world’s sovereign states represented on its campus -- ����Ӱҵ continues to pursue ties with schools abroad for collaborative research, scholarship and training. Argentina’s 70,000-student (UNT) is ����Ӱҵ’s latest partner.

Early fruits of the ����Ӱҵ-UNT partnership established last fall include online and hybrid training of government employees in Tucumán, in creative thinking and development of new strategies on social and institutional communication. It was provided by City College’s Division of Interdisciplinary Studies at the Center for Worker Education (CWE).

The collaboration is set to expand. On a trip to Tucumán province in northwest Argentina, a ����Ӱҵ delegation led by College President Vincent Boudreau outlined plans to increase online classes.

“We’re planning two more classes this semester for the banking sector, and also plan online education in the areas of communication, film, remote sensing, radars and other fields,” said Juan Carlos Mercado, dean of the CWE, and a member of the ����Ӱҵ delegation.

The remote sensing collaboration discussed by Boudreau and his counterpart, UNT President Jose Ramon Garcia, involves the ����Ӱҵ-based . It’s a consortium that conducts cutting edge research, educates, and trains a diverse group of students, early career scientists, and engineers, in NOAA-related science missions.

The Argentines are interested in mobility for their researchers and students to gain expertise regarding techniques and tools to assess data problems like space weather monitoring, Mercado pointed out. “They have young students committed to learning about remote sensing, signal processing, design and deployment of remote sensing based technology.”

An impetus for scientists in Tucumán to increasing the number of sensors in the province to monitor weather is that the region is a leading exporter of lemons in the world, and a major producer of sugar cane and other fruits. More remote sensing would enable more accurate forecasts of flooding and drought.

The ����Ӱҵ team also met with scientists and officials from the l -- one of the top engineering schools in the country with more than 75,000 students – and . The conversation with the latter centered on ����Ӱҵ’s possible collaboration in the SAOCOM Sensor mission, Argentina’s space satellite program designed to help predict and monitor the mitigation of natural disasters through changes in  vegetation and other features.

 Other members of the ����Ӱҵ delegation to Argentina included:

• Gerardo Blumekrantz, Division of Humanities and the Arts;
• Jorge E. Gonzalez, NOAA-CREST;
• Reza Khanbilvardi, NOAA-CREST;
• Kyle McDonald, Division of Science; and
• Dee Dee Mozeleski, Executive Director, The Foundations for City College.

About ����Ӱҵ
Since 1847, ����Ӱҵ has provided a high quality and affordable education to generations of New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. ����Ӱҵ embraces its role at the forefront of social change. It is ranked #1 by the Harvard-based Opportunity Insights out of 369 selective public colleges in the United States on the overall mobility index. This measure reflects both access and outcomes, representing the likelihood that a student at ����Ӱҵ can move up two or more income quintiles. In addition, the Center for World University Rankings places ����Ӱҵ in the top 1.2% of universities worldwide in terms of academic excellence. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in eight professional schools and divisions, driven by significant funded research, creativity and scholarship. ����Ӱҵ is as diverse, dynamic and visionary as New York City itself.  View ����Ӱҵ Media Kit.