A program started in 2008 by the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) will send yet another group of American professors to teach at Vietnamese universities for the 2010/2011 academic year.
VEF provides United States Faculty Scholars (USFS) with grants to teach either in person or via interactive video-conferencing in Vietnam. The mission is to bring the United States and Vietnam closer together through educational exchanges. The subjects include science, engineering, mathematics, medicine and technology.
As U.S. Ambassador Michael Michalak noted, "The VEF U.S. Faculty Scholar Program is an outstanding U.S. government funded program, which reflects one of our mission\'s top priorities of enhancing American cooperation with Vietnam in the area of education. I believe it will also serve to support Vietnam\'s efforts to further reform and develop its higher education system."
VEF is a U.S. federal government agency which has been operating for 8 years. VEF also provides scholarship and Fellowship opportunities for Vietnamese students.
The professors who will be contributing are: Dr. James F. Cremer, Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department, at the University of Iowa, will be teaching for the Hanoi University of Technology in Hanoi. Dr. Erik V. Nordheim, Professor, at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Statistics, will be teaching for the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science. Dr. Sally Carol Seidel, Professor, at the University of New Mexico, will be teaching for the Institute of Physics at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST). |
