{"id":57220,"date":"2020-11-16T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57220"},"modified":"2020-11-16T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T14:54:11","slug":"fhsu-faculty-virtual-guest-lecturers-for-russian-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=57220","title":{"rendered":"FHSU faculty virtual guest lecturers for Russian university"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Fort Hays State University professors recently served as virtual guest lecturers for first-year Master of Science degree students at the Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics University (ITMO) in Saint Petersburg, Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Yaprak Dalat Ward, associate\nprofessor of Advanced Education Programs, and Dr. James \u201cSkip\u201d Ward, associate\nprofessor of Applied Business Studies, lectured in the International Research\nManagement Essentials course.\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITMO University is one of Russia&#8217;s leading\nhigher education and research institutions, specializing in Photonics and\nOptics, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, IT and Robotics, Social Sciences and\nSmart Materials and Technology. The invitation to become a guest lecturer\nstarted at a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, in February 2020 when Dr. Dalat\nWard met ITMO university administrators and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The International Research Management\nEssentials class, taught in English, attracted first-year MSc degree students\nfrom various majors united by an interest in working on real-world problems. A\ntotal of 168 students in 45 multidisciplinary areas participated in the course\nand worked as teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The course was delivered in workshops\nand included areas such as Citizen Science, Grant Proposal Writing,\nCommercialization of Research, Ideathon, Project Management, Pitch Training,\nGrant Application Process, International Cultural Competence and Business\nCommunication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students not only cooperated within\ntheir teams but also competed as teams. While the majority of the students were\nfrom Russia, other students came from Germany, the United States, Egypt, Syria,\nIndia, and several countries in Africa. More than 35 trans-disciplinary faculty\nfrom 10 countries \u2013 including Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the United States,\nRussia, Spain and Turkey \u2013 delivered presentations, led workshops and judged\nteam presentations and proposals. In addition, six ideathons generated the\nconcepts for student research and team pitches to secure grants for incubators\nfor commercial startups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Two Fort Hays State University professors recently served as virtual guest lecturers for first-year Master of Science degree students at the Information&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57221,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57220\/revisions\/57221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}