Bridging the Distance

Through the latest video-conferencing technology, public affairs students and their counterparts in other cities and countries were able to meet throughout the year in virtual classroom settings. Students in Chandler Stolp's Political Economy II class (Western Hemispheric Economic Integration) are shown here at the College of Business Administration's EDS Financial Trading and Technology Center, a facility that includes a broadcast studio/classroom that is equipped with real-time video and data transmission. Shown on the screen is Alejandro Ibarra, professor of economics at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).

Other projects that were involved in similar activities this year included:

  • a policy research project on water and drought management in the binational lower Rio Grande basin directed by Professors Jurgen Schmandt and Chandler Stolp; the group cooperated with a parallel project at ITESM;
  • several LBJ School students registered for a video conference course on Texas health policy that was simultaneously broadcast from the UT School of Public Health in San Antonio (UTSPH/SA), the Texas Department of Health (TDH) in Austin, and the UT School of Public Health in Houston (UTSPH/Houston); the course was taught by LBJ School Professor David Warner, who also teaches at UTSPH/SA, as well as Charles Begley, with UTSPH/Houston; and Eric Baumgartner, director of managed care at TDH;
  • the LBJ School Hubert Humphrey fellows participated in a videoconferenced workshop on international economic development with their counterparts at Pennsylvania State University in March.
Photo by María de la Luz Martínez
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