Associate Dean Candidates for International Education to Hold Seminars

The three candidates for the associate dean for international education will give public seminars during the next two weeks describing their vision for international education at the University of Arkansas.

The candidates are Robert Wiedenmann, professor of entomology; Curt Rom, interim dean of the Honors College and University Professor of horticulture; and Peter Ungar, distinguished professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology.

Wiedenmann has conducted field work across the globe, led multiple study abroad tours in Mexico and Central America and developed biology control short courses in Europe and Central America. He has made recruitment presentations in Dominica for the U of A and previously organized a global conference with the Mexican Society for Biological Control. While on faculty at the University of Illinois, Wiedenmann served as the liaison officer for a memorandum of agreement between the University of Illinois and Zamorano University in Honduras. He will give his seminar at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, April 13, in Arkansas Union rooms 512-513.

Rom previously served on the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences International Programs Committee and Course Instruction. In that role, he supervised international internships and led study abroad tours throughout Europe. He has served as a horticulture consultant in Asia, Australia and South America. Rom received a Fulbright fellowship to teach in the Agripolis of the University of Padova in Padova, Italy, in 2008 and held a courtesy appointment to the Department of Horticulture and Agriculture at the Autonomous University of Chihuahua in Mexico from 2008-13. He will give his seminar at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 16 in Arkansas Union rooms 507-508.

Ungar has co-led and co-developed U of A study abroad programs in Africa, facilitated travel abroad for graduate students and conducted research on six continents. He has been an honorary faculty member of the University of Witwatersand in Johannesburg, South Africa, for nearly 15 years and helped broker a memorandum of understanding for student exchange between that university and the U of A. He is also an honorary visiting professor at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, and previously served as a short-course instructor at the University of Helsinki in Finland. He will give his seminar at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, April 24 in Arkansas Unions rooms 512-513.