Radio Iowa
08-10-06
I-S-U President leads group to Uganda
by Darwin Danielson
Iowa State University President Gregory Geoffroy left with a group from the
school today (Thursday) on a trip to Uganda. I-S-U spokesman Brian Meyer says
the group is visiting Uganda as part of a program to help rural areas. He says
there was an agricultural community picked in rural Uganda that the university
has been working with on community and farm issues.
Meyer says this program that reaches outside the U.S. was established in 2003.
Meyer says they look at this as a way to extend what the university has been
doing for 150 years in Iowa to other parts of the work.
Meyer says the I-S-U group has a very busy schedule. He says the group will get
into Africa Friday and stay for eight days. Meyer says they'll visit several
communities, including the community targeted by the program, and will also visit
with several dignitaries and officials from other universities.
Meyer says some of the I-S-U officials flying out today had to make some
changes in their schedule to get around the back ups created by the terrorism
warnings.