UD research is growing around the world. The Confucius Institute, recently launched in partnership with Xiamen University, is developing initiatives focusing on international issues and fostering economic scholarship and entrepreneurship, in addition to building interest regionally in the Chinese language and culture. UD and Xiamen University established the Joint Institute for Coastal Research and Management in 2008 and now offer a dual doctoral degree program in oceanography. In Latin America, a longstanding partnership in engineering research and education with 14 Colombian universities is being expanded to other UD departments, with the mutual goal to train 100 future Colombian faculty at the Ph.D. level over the next 10 years. And a partnership with the Federal University of Lavras (UFLA) in Brazil (shown below) will support undergraduate internships, build teaching modules for UD courses, and provide opportunities for as many as 12 doctoral students from UFLA to spend up to a year working with UD faculty on collaborative research in agriculture and biological science.