Dr. Marlene Tromp, President of Boise State University, delivers the State of the University address during a Boise Metro Chamber luncheon at BSU’s Stueckle Sky Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
Boise State University President Marlene Tromp, center, signs a memorandum of understanding creating The UPWARDS Network at the Group of Seven Summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
Dr. Marlene Tromp, President of Boise State University, delivers the State of the University address during a Boise Metro Chamber luncheon at BSU’s Stueckle Sky Center, Tuesday, May 23, 2023.
Boise State University President Marlene Tromp, center, signs a memorandum of understanding creating The UPWARDS Network at the Group of Seven Summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
Boise State University President Marlene Tromp announced Tuesday the school is now part of an international semiconductor training and research initiative, which was finalized at the recent Group of Seven Summit in Hiroshima, Japan.
Tromp, who returned from Japan on Monday, spoke about the initiative during her State of the University address, presented by the Boise Metro Chamber at the Stueckle Sky Center on Tuesday afternoon.
The new collaboration, called UPWARDS Network, brings together other universities in the U.S. and Japan as well as Micron and Tokyo Electron Limited. The aim of the initiative is to advance the U.S. in the semiconductor industry by developing the next generation of the workforce and pursuing research in the industry.
“I think this is just incredible, and you should be proud of your hometown university being a part of this extraordinary effort with some of the greatest public universities in the country,” Tromp told the crowd.
The memorandum of understanding creating the network was signed by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Japan’s Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Keiko Nagaoka.
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