Building a Holistic International Educational Partnership: Collaboration Between The University of Georgia and the Tunisian Higher Education System

This article reports on a capacity building partnership between The University of Georgia and the higher education system of Tunisia that has been ongoing since 2002. The article discusses important aspects of the program, highlights the conceptual framework and underlying principles that have guided and shaped its design, and gives a comprehensive overview of its overall objectives, concrete actions, and outcomes. Our team’s response to Tunisia’s most urgent development needs; integrating institutional and national resources; building networks of decision makers, administrators, faculty, and students across disciplinary and institutional boundaries; and facilitating the development of indigenous expertise were among the attributes leading to the program’s selection for the Andrew Heiskel Award for Innovation in International Education

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Lofty Nijo: A high quality malting barley variety released from an Australian-Japanese collaboration

A new malting barley variety, Lofty Nijo, was bred in Australia through a collaborative breeding program between a Japanese brewing company and Adelaide University. The variety is early flowering and maturing, with similar yield potential to Schooner except in lower rainfall areas, and is not zinc efficient. It produces plump grains with low screenings similar to Schooner and more uniform and plumper grains than Franklin. Lofty Nijo has a well-balanced malting quality profile. It shows high values in malt extract, diastatic power, apparent attenuation limit and Hartong index (VZ45) and low values in wort beta-glucan and viscosity. The Kolbach index of this variety is lower than Schooner and Sloop, however, it is higher than Franklin. A pilot-scale brewing trial indicated that Lofty Nijo is as suitable for Japanese brewing as the world's leading varieties, such as Franklin. Lofty Nijo should therefore offer a premium malting barley variety in Australia for export markets. The breeding, agronomic performance and quality profile of the variety is described in this paper.K. Ogushi, A. R. Barr, S. Takahashi, T. Asakura, K. Takoi and K. It