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Digital multimedia is fundamental to the computer and communications industries, which are thoroughly international. Various media are ubiquitous throughout the globe, transcending location, language, and culture. It is clear that, in the long run, an international perspective is absolutely necessary in these industries and in digital media-mediated art and music. The IGERT program gives us a wonderful opportunity to include an explicit international dimension to the traditional departmental graduate education. For example, we specifically invite international colleagues in interactive digital multimedia to visit UCSB to participate in our lecture series. This is a good way for the students to set up subsequent international lab visits. Also, IGERT participating faculty have many international contacts, prividing many more opportunities for IGERT students to do internships with companies and university research labs outside of the United States. One student, Alex Villacorta, Statistics Trainee, interned at Microsoft Asia in Summer 2004.

UCSB has a number of collaborative agreements and exchange programs with international universities that can provide opportunities for IGERT students (as well as postdocs and faculty) to spend time abroad doing research. For example:

• Exchange Program with ETH, Zurich. Three to five awards are available annually for UCSB students and postdocs of all disciplines, for a stay of at least three months at ETH.

• Collaborative Agreement Between UCSB and the University of Iceland. This agreement enables an exchange of faculty, researchers, and students for research projects, conferences, and teaching.

• The UCSB Education Abroad Program is an active source of opportunities for graduate students to study at universities abroad.

In addition, UCSB has cooperative agreements for international exchange with the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan, Guerrero University in Mexico, and other universities.