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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

MTU to offer Transatlantic Forest Resources Master's Degree

HOUGHTON --In a first-of-its-kind, transatlantic graduate program, students on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean now can earn dual forest resources master’s degrees from Michigan Technological University and a Finnish or Swedish university.

Michigan Tech and North Carolina State University have received a $224,000 grant from the US Department of Education and the European Union (EU) to partner with the University of Helsinki in Finland and the Swedish University of Agricultural Science in offering a transatlantic dual master's degree program in forest resources and biotechnology. The program is one of 16 just funded by the new US-European partnership called ATLANTIS (Actions for Transatlantic Links and Academic Networks for Training and Integrated Studies) ...

Read the full story by Jennifer Donovan on the MTU Web site.

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