In a joyful ceremony at the University of Arkansas System Office, the system’s Division of Agriculture signed a memorandum of understanding with Kore University of Enna, Sicily. Kore University, founded in 2005, is a private higher education institution with more than 8,000 students. Kore University offers 21 degree courses in five schools: engineering and architecture; economics and law; human and social sciences; classical, linguistic and educational studies; and medicine and surgery.

The aim of the agreement is to further “international cooperation in research and education,” including joint research projects, faculty guest lectures, and exchanges of student, faculty and researchers, as well as research reports and other scholarly materials.