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5.  FACULTY/STAFF ABROAD INCLUDES VISIT TO THAILAND PROJECT

     The following faculty and staff members are spending part or all
of the current year abroad: Dr. Willem Meijer, botany, has received
a grant from NSF-AID, to coordinate a program for the study of forest
areas as location sites for settlers after being logged, in Indonesia;
Dr. Jesse Sisken, cell biology, is spending his sabbatical year at
the Department of Anatomy, University of Copenhagen, beginning Aug. 1,
conducting research in the area of cell biology; Dr. Harold K.
Charlesworth, economics, also will be spending his sabbatical year
conducting research in the area of small-business entrepreneurial
organization under the auspices of the MARA Institute of Technology,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

     Vincent Cusumano, Ph.D. candidate in agricultural economics,
was a visiting professor in research methodology at the Federal Uni-
versity of Santa Maria, Brazil, under the UK-FUSM program; Dr. Lewis
Cochran, vice-president for academic affairs, and Dr. Charles Barn-
hart, dean of the College of Agriculture, will spend two weeks in
Tihailand, conducting an on-site program review of the UK-AID project
in Tha Phra, Khon Kaen. Jon Dalton, director of the Human Relations
Center, spent three weeks with the Monterrey Institute of Technology,
Mexico, participating in the UK summer program there; Dr. Sheldon
Simon, political science, recently returned from an academic year
with the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and an
extended lecture tour of Asia under the auspices of the USIA; and
Dr. Kurt Anschel, agricultural economics, visited Nepal to survey
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6.  NUMBER OF FOREIGN SCHOLARS VISIT HERE

     A number of foreign scholars have visited the University recently.
They include Manuel Dempere, director of Sociedad Administradora de
Credito Educativo and the Office of Student Services at the Universi-
dad de Oriente, Cumana, Venezuela, who spent two weeks consulting with
UK faculty and staff regarding general education curriculum, foreign
student advising, and financial support program for students studying
abroad.

     Dr. Freddy Rumawas, director of Research and Development, Insti-
tut Pertanian, Bogor, Indonesia, met with former colleagues and
mentors (he earned his MA degree here) regarding possible ways of
re-activating an institutional arrangement between UK and the Institut;
Muhammad Osman Wahidi, from Afghanistan, visited the Office for Ex-
periential Education and was particularly interested in the University
Year for Action program under that office, and Dr. Hamidou Sekou,
Head Director of the National School of Public Health in Niamey,
Niger, visited under the auspices of the Visiting Scholars Program of
the Institute for International Education and the UK State Department.
Dr. Sekou was particularly interested in Kentucky's community health
services, and visited with the Kentucky State Department of Health
in Frankfort, the Departments of Community Dentistry, Community Medi-
cine at the College of Medicine, and the Frontier Nursing Service at
Hyden.