Campuses, International Programs & Special Projects
Updated/Actualizado: 30 October, 2007
CAMPUSES
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USFQ was founded in 1987. Its main campus is located in Cumbayá, in the beautiful Tumbaco Valley 15 minutes outside of Quito, Ecuador. More information about USFQ. Photos.
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This campus, located in a colonial town 200 km south of Quito, is destined to become one of Ecuador's most important centers for cultural education in the country. ISQ offers Andean highland cultural and outdoor adventures, gender studies, volcanology, culinary programs, and intensive Spanish. It also functions as a feeder campus for the main campus and offers dozens of classes in diverse areas.
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Galapagos Academic Institute for the Arts & Sciences. USFQ's campus on San Cristóbal, in the famous Galapagos archipelago, is the only institution of higher education on the islands. GAIAS is the location of annual summits that attract world leaders in science, including Nobel Prize winners. GALAPAGOS PROGRAMS: Marine Ecology full-semester program; People, Politics and the Environment in the Galapagos; Evolution, Ecology & Conservation in the Galapagos. |
Tiputini Biodiversity Research Station with Boston University. A National Geographic journalist called Tiputini one of the most incredible places on earth! Want to go? You can arrange it by enrolling in Boston University's Tropical Ecology Program , by enrolling in Kalamazoo's Environment and Ecology classes (includes 22 days in both Tiputini and GAIAS), or (if you represent a university) by establishing a custom-tailored program directly with USFQ's Tipituni Research Station. |
SPECIAL PROGRAMS AT THE CUMBAYÁ CAMPUS
 USFQ is the first university in Latin
America to embrace Babson College's #1 ranked Entrepreneurialism program. On
October 4-6, 2006 twenty-four key professors and administrators received
intensive training at the USFQ Cumbayá Campus to promote the entrepreneurial
spirit throughout the university's activities.
Read a Babson article about this project here.
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 To guarantee academic excellence, USFQ works
with the Kansas State University-based Individual Development & Educational
Assessment Center to develop state-of-the-art Spanish-language assessment
tools and reports. Numerous American universities use this system to
document ongoing improvement. |
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The USFQ Instituto de Música Contemporánea is a Berklee International Network School. This is an extension program of the Berklee College of Music -- quite possibly the most prestigious music school in the world. The Institute's primary focus is on jazz and uses all Berklee curriculum and materials. The IMC is a driving force influencing music in Latin America - attracting students from Chile, Peru and Colombia.
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 USFQ is the
official representative of CISCO Networking Systems in Ecuador. |
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The International Health Training Center is a project of the College of Health Sciences that arranges specialized residency experiences (e.g. rural or tropical medicine) for international health care professionals. The Center also offers customized training programs . (brochure in English here) |
 The
Ceiba Foundation for Tropical Conservation
has teamed up with USFQ
to offer this exciting semester-abroad program in applied tropical
conservation. Students participating in this program visit the Galapagos,
Amazonia, and the Andes Highlands. |
SPECIAL PROJECTS & ANNUAL EVENTS
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This Master's in Science in Sustainable Energy Development is offered in conjunction with the University of Calgary, Canada & The Canadian International Development Agency. |
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 Award
winning economist Robert Friedman, in conjunction with the USFQ Business
School, offers a public seminar. |
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 ECODESS - Funded by United States National Institute of Health / National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and carried out in conjunction with UC Berkely and Trinity College Researchers |
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The DØ Experiment - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (project on which USFQ co-founder Bruce Hoeneisen conducts research) |
 8th
Annual International Forum on Architecture: New (York) Architects
Every year USFQ's architecture department hosts a cutting-edge internationally acclaimed forum on architecture -- attended by architects from not only all of the region, but from all over the world. |
 USFQ is committed to this newest and most exciting area of research which offers so much promise in the areas of health, medicine, psychology, and education. The university's collection of books on the topic is unsurpassed in the region. |
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL EVENTS
 April
3, 2007 - The USFQ
Instituto de Musica Contemporanea
- a Network Member of the
Berklee College of Music
in Boston, MA - hosts the
Annandale Jazz Ambassadors
- a jazz big band comprised of middle and high school students from Virginia,
U.S.A.! |
 USFQ
was the host of the 1st International Symposium on Telemedicine and
E-health, Nov 15-16, 2006.
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 USFQ hosted
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1st International Seminar on
Sensory Analysis as an Industrial Tool
for professors of food sciences on Feb 2-3, 2007. |
 USFQ was the host of the
15th Latin American Congress of
Industrial Engineering Students - Oct 30-Nov 3, 2006. |
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Wednesday Jan 17, 2007, 12h00 to 13h00 in Rm. D210. "Revelando los mecanismos del transporte axonal de los Priones". Sandra E. Encalada -- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego. And "Epigenetic inheritance and gene regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae". Marc D. Meneghini - Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco |
AGREEMENTS
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