TC faculty and students continually discover new opportunities to work with colleagues around the world. A few recent examples:

• In July, 2007 Haselkorn was the keynote speaker for the Workshop on Natural and Human Induced Disasters in Africa, Kampala, Uganda.
• Professor Haselkorn is working with the international humanitarian service community to clarify and extend this emerging research frontier. Past workshops for the NSF Initiative on Humanitarian Service Science and Engineering have been held in Kenya (June 2006), Washington DC (January 2007), and Seattle (October 2007).
• In March 2007, Jan Spyridakis, Kate Mobrand, Elisabeth Cuddihy, and Caroyln Wei wrote an invited journal article, Using Structural Cues to Guide Readers on the Internet, for a Dutch journal entitled Information Design Journal.
• In November 2006, Jan Spyridakis gave a plenary speech,"Using Structural Cues to Guide Readers," at the International Conference Discourse, Cognition and Communication Conference, at Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• In November 2006, Jan Spyridakis gave an invited workshop, "Conducting Remote Studies of Web Users Using WebLab UX," at the International Conference Discourse, Cognition and Communication Conference, in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
• In November 2006, Jan Spyridakis gave an invited presentation, "The Effect of Text Previews and Navigation Menus on Comprehension, Perceptions, and Behavior," at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands).
• In spring 2006, Jan Spyridakis and her research group supported three visiting Dutch researchers in conducting a remote, Internet-based experiment.
• Professors Beth Kolko and Jan Spyridakis won NSF funding for a five-year project studying technology adoption in Central Asia. As part of their project, which extends through 2008, Kolko and TC graduate students have traveled to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and other Central Asian countries to help conduct research.
• In 2004, Professor Mark Haselkorn, collaborating with Industrial Engineering and the Evans School of Public Affairs, created a program in humanitarian logistics that took a TC graduate student to Mozambique. Visit their website for more information.
• In the summer of 2004 Professor David Farkas attended the International Summer Workshop on Communication and Web Design at the University of Twente. There were lots of TC students, but Prof. Farkas was the only TC faculty member. With Jean B. Farkas, he gave a presentation, "The Design of Heuristics." Here is a link to the workshop website: http://www.tcw.utwente.nl/international_workshop/Pictures/index.html.
• In 2004, six students from research groups directed by Professor Jan Spyridakis presented at conferences in The Netherlands, Sweden, and England. They also coauthored papers with her about the research.
• In the summer of 2003, Professor David Farkas lectured on technical communication at two Egyptian universities at the invitation of Hashem El-Zayat, who had been a Visiting Scholar in our department the year before.

Visiting professors and scholars

TC has hosted visiting professors from the University of Twente in the Netherlands, the University of Alexandria in Egypt, the University of Navarre in Spain, and universities in India, Japan, and Norway. We have also hosted visiting scholars from companies such as Hitachi Corporation in Japan. These visitors talk to classes, work with students, conduct research with faculty and socialze with our community. We expect to increase the number and diversity of our visitors over the next years.

Visiting graduate students

Graduate students from programs in countries from Norway to Brazil have come to UWTC as visiting graduate students to study, do research in our labs, and enjoy our beautiful setting here in the Pacific Northwest.

Home of the Technical Japanese program

TC has the unique advantage in its international initiative of being the home of the Technical Japanese program. The faculty and students in TJ enrich the international experience of our students and open up doors to internships and other opportunities in Asia.