The Idaho Board of Education unanimously approved Boise State University's request to establish its first Ph.D. program. The action clears the way for Boise State to offer a doctorate degree in geophysics starting next fall.
This will be the only such program in the nation focusing exclusively on research of the Earth's uppermost crust, according to Dr. Jack Pelton, coordinator of the graduate program and director of Boise State's Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface.
The Center for Geophysical Investigation of the Shallow Subsurface was established in 1991 with a $1 million grant from the Higher Education Research Council. It is involved in research on the first 500 meters of the Earth's crust and has generated more than $6 million in competitive external funding since the initial grant.
For more information, contact Pelton at (208) 426-3640.
The University of Technology of Jamaica has signed an agreement to start a joint chemical engineering degree program next year with the Instituto Superior Politecnico Jose Antonio Echeverria, a Cuban higher education institution that specializes in architecture and engineering.
The four-year program, which begins in September 2000, will require the Jamaican students to learn Spanish and spend two months in Cuba attending the institute and gaining work experience. The Cuban institute also will help the Jamaican university develop its engineering and computing facilities.
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