University of Texas Strengthens Commitment to Mexico with New Office in Mexico City
Style Magazine Newswire | 11/22/2017, 2:14 p.m.
Enrique Luis Graue Wiechers, rector of Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Mexico, and Gregory Fenves, president of The University of Texas at Austin.
Source: News.UTexas.edu
The University of Texas (UT) is deepening its historically strong relationship with Mexico by opening an office in Mexico City at the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de Mexico (UNAM). With new staff on the ground in Mexico, UT plans to expand collaborations with Mexican educational and scientific organizations. The office at UNAM will house The University of Texas at Austin — Mexico Institute, a Mexican nonprofit organization established in May 2017 to promote UT’s scholarly research inside and outside the country. The institute’s staff will work with researchers in Mexico and Texas to pursue projects in science, technology, engineer¬ing and math (STEM), and also scholarly and cultural studies. As a demonstration of the university’s expanding ties to Mexico, Dr. Dan Jaffe, UT’s vice president for research, signed an academic and research agreement with Mexico’s oil and gas regulatory commission, Comisión Nacional de Hidrocarburos (CNH). Under the agreement, UT will support Mexico in the sustainable development of its hydrocarbon resources.
