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DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 10, 1993                   TAG: 9311100131
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A9   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: The Washington Post
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

UNIVERSITIES NOT ALONE

Thousands of professors and students in the United States and former Soviet republics could share research and send faxes and computer messages to each other as part of a new international alliance announced Tuesday by a consortium of 82 American universities.

The International Alliance of Universities would try to advance science and other scholarly research by, for instance, linking a professor working on laser physics in Armenia to one doing similar work in America. It would broaden isolated exchanges of faculty and students and try to monitor the stampede of American schools establishing campuses in Moscow and other cities in the former Soviet Union.

Among schools in the consortium, which graduates 20 percent of the nation's doctorates in science and engineering, are Howard, Maryland, Virginia, William and Mary, Duke, Rice and Tulane.

The new alliance aims to forge partnerships with industry and government, too.

by CNB