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Alcorn State School of AREAS and Global Programs Office Establish Relations with Russian University 

On May 20-28, 2007, Drs. McAfee, Dean School of Agriculture, Research, Extension and Applied Sciences (AREAS), Kenneth Stallings, Chair, School of Agriculture, Wesley Whittaker, professor and program leader, School of AREAS and Elena Dobrynina, Staff Writer/International Student Recruiter, Office of University Relations, visited Voronezh State Agricultural University (VSAU) of Voronezh, Russia.

 The primary purpose of the visit was to establish relations and sign a preliminary agreement of cooperation between the two institutions. The mutually beneficial cooperation will include student exchange, exchange of faculty and administrators, as well as joint research projects.

The idea of cooperation was born during discussion between Dr. McAfee and Russian professor Nikolai Dobrynin of VSAU who was visiting Alcorn State within the consortium of scholars program last fall.

The reciprocal visit of VSAU delegation is scheduled for September, 2007. VSAU President, Vice President of International Affairs and faculty will meet with ASU students, faculty and administrators with the visit culminating with ASU and VSAU presidents signing a modified and improved agreement of cooperation.