Two new bilateral partnership agreements have been signed with the Dominican Republic's Institute for Agriculture and Forestry Research, and Northwest A&F University in Yangling, China.

KSU is bringing three foreign scholars to campus to conduct joint research. OGEP has used UK's J visa designation to invite three scholars to KSU. All are coming to do research in the area of aquaculture. Dr. Mims and Dr. Wang both will bring researchers from China and Dr. Webster will one from Brazil.

Dr. Menking successfully presented at the Association for International Education Administrators' annual meeting. The Chronicle of Higher Ed covered the story How to better provide education abroad services for underrepresented populations.

Dr. Menking and Dr. James Tidwell visited the Dominican Republic to develop aquaculture programs with that country's federal research institute for agriculture and forestry. USAID interested in supporting a project there.