I hope you are all having an enjoyable and productive summer. We have a number of exciting events on the calendar between now and the start of the new school year. I am looking forward to seeing many of you next month on Thursday, Aug. 6 in Mexico City at our event featuring Professor Peter Smith at Casa Lamm. Our events in Mexico City provide a great opportunity to reconnect to our vibrant network of former fellows, research collaborators and UC San Diego alumni in the area.

We will also hold a Frontera Friday on binational rail and freight infrastructure with special guest and railroad industry veteran Professor Peter Swan on Saturday, Aug. 15. Frontera Fridays are quarterly events that connect leaders from both sides of the border to UC San Diego and serve as a platform for learning, networking and discussing opportunities and challenges that make our binational region unique. To get involved, please email us. 

This month we have had the pleasure of working with a group of young scholars from el Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) who are spending the summer at USMEX to advance their research. I hope you will join us on Thursday, July 30 when they present the initial findings of their research projects.

Stay tuned next month for our confirmed speakers for Mexico Moving Forward, and don't forget to mark your calendars to join us for the symposium on Friday, Oct. 30.

Un abrazo,
MelissaFloca
Melissa Floca
USMEX Interim Director
Reflexiones de un Gringo Viejo

Join us on Thursday, Aug. 6 at 5 p.m. at Casa Lamm in Mexico City to hear a talk by Professor Peter Smith titled, "Reflexiones de un Gringo Viejo: Cambios, Crisis y Continuidad." The talk will be held in Spanish. Before the talk, we will have a presentation by staff on our fellows program and degrees and certificates in international affairs and public policy at the School.
Meet the COLEF Scholars

We are honored to receive a group of scholars from COLEF this month, working with Professor Araceli Almaraz on projects on democratization, migration, economic integration and innovation. They will present their research on Thursday, July 30 from 12-2 p.m. in the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies library. Please join us.

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