Exploring potential areas for collaboration with The University of Missouri, USA

On April 23, 2019, Prof. Curtis Jerome Nelson and Dr. Sang Soon Kim – Director of Center for Asian Affairs, The University of Missouri, USA had a working visit at Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture & Forestry. Attending the meeting with delegates from University of Missouri, there were the presences of Dr. Duong Van Thao – Vice Director of Research & International Affairs Office; Dr. Pham Bang Phuong – Deputy Head of Advanced Education Program; and Msc. Lung Hung Ting – Vice Dean of Biotechnology & Food Technology Faculty.

 At the meeting, two sides provided brief introduction to TUAF & University of Missouri and exchanged their views on the potential areas for the collaboration between two universities including student & staff exchange; joint research project, joint hosting international conference.

The University of Missouri was founded in 1839 in Columbia as the first public university west of the Mississippi River. Today, with an enrollment of more than 30,000 students, 13,000 full-time employees and 317,000 alumni, Mizzou is an important investment for the state and nation. It is the state’s largest and most comprehensive university, Mizzou has more than 300 degree programs — including more than 90 online options — through 19 colleges and schools and is one of only six public universities nationwide that can claim a medical school, veterinary medicine college and a law school on the same campus.

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