Volume 5, Number 3 • Winter 2003/2004
CROSSING THE OCEAN International Fellowship at the 2004 World Water & Environmental Congress
Participation from around the globe proves that the world gets smaller every day, and that there is no substitute for hearing your colleagues speak in person. One of the highlights of the 2004 Congress will be the International Collaboration Symposium & Visiting International Fellowship, hosted by Co-Chairs Hal Cardwell and Jerry Delli Priscoli. Technical presentations are planned, as well as panel discussions to enable participants to share information with people from both sides of the ocean, and find out more about how others approach the same issues.At the 2003 World Water and Environmental Resources Conference in Philadelphia last June, two Visiting International Fellows, Mr. Rajiv Batish and Dr. Nalin Wikramanayake were honored while a third Fellow, Dr. Heng Liu was unable to attend the conference due to the SARS crisis. For this year’s congress, we have the great pleasure of honoring Dr. Dolorom Fayzieva of Uzbekistan, Dr. Jose Ochoa-Iturbe from Venezuela, and Mr. Wijanto Hadipuro from Indonesia. These visiting International Fellows from developing countries participate in the conference and additional professional and cultural exchange activities, and were competitively selected by the International Cooperation Council's Visiting International Fellowship Task Committee.
The International Cooperation Council (ICC) established the Visiting International Fellowship program in 2001 to promote cultural and technical exchange between EWRI members and international colleagues from developing countries. The Fellows were selected by members of the ICC based on a competitive process in which their applications were reviewed regarding the following aspects: 1) cultural and professional exchange activities proposed during the visit to the United States; 2) submission of the application by a collaborating ASCE or EWRI members; and 3) technical content of the proposed presentation. More information about the 2003 Fellows is available at http://www.ag.unr.edu/saito/congra03.htm, and information about the 2003-2004 fellowship is available at http://www.ag.unr.edu/saito/info04.htm.