University of Split

Split, Croatia
http://eng.unist.hr/
Penn State Global Contact: Alexandra Persiko, assistant director for Europe and Oceania partnerships (1-814-867-5941, axp1225@psu.edu)

History

Penn State and the University of Split have had connections since the early 1990s. The current partnership began in 2011 when the Eberly College of Science, in conjunction with its Forensic Science Program, established a partnership program with the University of Split in Croatia.  Penn State and the University of Split have an active Memorandum of Understanding. The partnership has allowed for  educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students and relationships between the faculties of the two universities.  The jointly funded Collaboration Development Program involved 21 projects since its beginnings in 2017.

Opportunities

The Collaboration Development Fund Program, a jointly financed Seed-fund program, was launched to facilitate collaborative research and teaching projects to become sustainable, self-supporting, long-term activities. Penn State and the University of Split  committed these Seed funds for two years in a row between 2017-2019. Additionally, Penn State participated in Erasmus Plus activities in 2019.

Key Activities

The partnership with Split is broad, spanning numerous Colleges and Departments at Penn State, both at University Park and Commonwealth campuses.  These include the Colleges of Medicine, Science, Liberal Arts, Agricultural Science, Education, and Health and Human Development, as well as the University Libraries.  Theprojects have involved both faculty and students and address the missions of the respective universities: research, education and service. 

Project Name

Contact

Coastal Biology in Croatia

Renee E. Bishop Pierce: reb20@psu.edu

Penn State/Split EDGE 2: Towards Interdisciplinarity and Interlocationality

Jennifer Cushman: jsc310@psu.edu 

Library Based Instruction Workshop

Mark Mattson: mam1196@psu.edu

Management and Control of Invasive Fruit Fly Pests of Cherries

Greg Krawczyk:

gxk13@psu.edu

Investigate and Reconstruct Aspects of Past Lifeways in Southern Europe

Timothy Ryan:

tmr21@psu.edu

Building a Personalized Kidney: Approach from Kidney Development to Disease

Nasrollah Ghahramani:

nug1@psu.edu

Developing Science and Practice in Teacher Education

James DiPerna

jcd12@psu.edu

Microplastics in Food

Renee E. Bishop Pierce: reb20@psu.edu

 

Highlights of the Partnership

  • The Penn State-Split connection goes back to the post-war era in Croatia. Read about the origins of the partnership here: Penn State and Croatia's University of Split deepen partnership.
  • In 2016, Professor Dragan Primorac was named Penn State’s first global ambassador: Penn State launches Global Ambassador Program
  • In 2017, Penn State Professor Mitchell Holland received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Split. (Video)
  • In 2018, Penn State Vice Provost Michael Adewumi received an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Split. (Video)
  • Penn State and Croatian faculty, including from the University’s partner the University of Split, collaborated on the identification of the remains of Sister Marija Krucifiksa Kozulić (1852–1922), a Croatian nun who is in consideration for beatification by the Vatican