The Institute for Resilient Environmental and Energy Systems at the University of Oklahoma is launching its first international summer school on OU's Norman campus.
From July 31 - August 7, IREES will host a group of 17 faculty and students from the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín (UNSA) in Arequipa, Peru for a week of technical training and research development activities focused on pressing climate change and human health challenges facing the Arequipa region.
The Summer School for Research Excellence will support a research and capacity building initiative to establish a bi-lateral Institute for Global Change and Human Health through a cooperative alliance between OU and UNSA. Attendees will participate in technical workshops covering a wide range of subjects that include: health informatics, image processing, carbon nanotube fabrication, advanced treatments for cancer, regional climate modeling, hydrological modeling, theories in public policy, and collective decision making. The SSRE will also include plenary sessions designed to share cross-discipline perspectives and facilitate exploration of new approaches to addressing the regional impacts of global challenges with resilient, sustainable solutions.
The UNSA-OU partnership is administered through the IREES Latin America Sustainability Institute and co-led by Eveling Castro Gutiérrez, UNSA professor of computer science and Tim Filley, OU professor of geography and environmental sustainability and IREES executive director. LASI partnerships and projects in Peru are designed to bridge use-based science and policy with resilient design in a university-led framework. Each effort is initiated by co-development of targeted technical and research infrastructure to support a network of interrelated, interdisciplinary research projects addressing local and regional needs.
For more information, please contact Victor Maqque, LASI managing director at vmaqque@ou.edu.
