International Exchanges
UC Davis has twenty-four Agreements of Cooperation with Iberian and Latin American Universities. These range from the social sciences to engineering and plant sciences. The Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, in particular, sponsors three "convenios" with Latin American universities for short-term faculty exchanges with la Universidad de Chile (Humanidades) and la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In April 2010 HIA will host Professor Olaya Sanfuentes from PUC-Santiago for a one-week visit. UCD faculty will visit Chile in the fall of 2010. The Chile convenios are highlights of frequent events about Chile, taking advantage of the extensive local community of Chilenos.
A convenio with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú operates under the same format of short-term faculty exchanges as the Chilean convenios. The UC Davis-PUC-Peru convenio completed a full cycle of reciprocal exchanges in 2009 with the visit of Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino of PUC-Peru to UC Davis in March 2009, and the visit of Stefano Varese of UC Davis, Native American Studies, to Lima, Peru in September 2009.