Visit to Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

DATE

Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Objectives

Present UNAM and UC as each other’s most relevant academic partners in terms of joint publications, innovative, collaborative projects, and student exchanges.

Express their aspiration to be more strategic through binational research teams that focus on critical areas, such as climate change, migration, health, and sustainable soils, and produce innovative solutions.

Organize academic exchanges that take advantage of new digital technologies and provide joint courses that advance a binational understanding of our shared societal challenges.

Announcements

Update on the ten-year extension of the General Agreement between UC and UNAM (signed in 2021).

Stage two of the UC-UNAM Innovation and COVID project: Additional funding for 5 joint teams to continue developing innovative research.

Creation of two new binational research groups: Climate Resilience and Migration and Inequality.

Licensing of the UC Bending the Curve MOOC to UNAM, who will translate it into Spanish and add content on Mexico and Latin America, and joint online courses on diverse areas of study.

UC Berkeley-UNAM MOU, building on the success of the health management and leadership extension courses (5th edition) to continue collaboration.

Exploration of new opportunities for research cooperation (e.g. Health and Climate) extension courses.

New collaboration in athletic exchanges, beginning with UC Riverside.

Participants from UNAM

Enrique Graue, Rector
Patricia Dávila, Secretary for Institutional Development
William Lee, Vice Chancellor for Scientific Research
Guadalupe Valencia, Vice Chancellor for the Humanities
Francisco Trigo, Vice Provost for International Affairs
Leticia Merino, Director for Sustainability
Francisco Estrada, Director of the Interdisciplinary Climate Change Research Program (PINCC)
Samuel Ponce de León, Director of the Health Research Program (PUIS) and the COVID-19 Response
Commission
José Miguel Hartasánchez G., Coordinator of Health Management Programs, PUIS
Alejandro Fernández Varela, Director of Sports
Jorge Vázquez, Liaison and Technology Transfer Director

Participants from University of California and Alianza MX

Kim Wilcox, Chancellor, UC Riverside; Executive Sponsor of Alianza MX

Christine Victorino, Associate Chancellor, UC Riverside

Rodolfo Torres, Vice Chancellor and Research and Economic Development, UC Riverside

Marjorie Zatz, Interim Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, UC Merced

Joanna Regulska, Vice Provost and Dean of Global Affairs, UC Davis

Stefano Bertozzi, Professor of Health Policy & Management, UC Berkeley

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Isabel Studer, Director of Alianza MX

Aaron Melaas, Alianza MX Associate Director of Research and Innovation

Andrea Galván, Alianza MX Associate Director of Academic Exchange and Continuing Education

Araceli Vazquez, Alianza MX Associate Director for Policy and Engagement