Finally after a long delay from the last number of association's newsletter on Dec 2008 -more than a year - its 4th issue is out. Its main titles are as following:  Download

- Questions posed on the MB meeting of Jan 2010 and their responses

- Joint Ph.D Program proposed by IMRD and Agris

-  Graduation Ceremony batch 2007-2009

- Best Paper Prize 2009

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New Year’s Reality Check

Another year, another chance
To start our lives anew;
This time we’ll leap old barriers
To have a real breakthrough.

We’ll take one little step
And then we’ll take one more,
Our unlimited potential
We’ll totally explore.

We’ll show off all our talents
Everyone will be inspired;

We’ll give up all bad habits;

We’ll read and learn a lot,
All our goals will be accomplished,
Sigh...or maybe not.

Oh well, Happy New Year anyway!

By Joanna Fuchs

Held on 3 days of 31 October, 1st & 2nd November, the Erasmus Mundus symposium on geography, earth and environmental studies took place in Lisbon-Portugal. This program had been initiated by the EM International Master on Geospatial Technologies and 12 other EM programs relative to geology, earth and environmental studies have been invited to participate.

From IMRD, Yazdan Soltanpour has presented a work titled "Tectonic assessment of Alborz and Zagros mountains". You may find the presentations, photos, and the videos of each presentation in the following link:

http://geomundus.wordpress.com/

Apart from the work presentations of students, there have also been presentations by professors from Munster and Lisbon universities on GIS application and even on general facts such as academic writing. 

This program has been sponsored by Erasmus Mundus Student and Alumni Association (EMA) and they declared that programs such that incorporate different programs of EM (and in some cases the inter-programme initiatives) can be covered by EMA. It had been encouraged to hold this symposium every year by one of the 13 EM relative programs. When shall be IMRD's turn?

Hello Dear IMRDians

President: Yazdan Soltanpour

Secretary: Thaneswar Bhandari

Treasurer: Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam

Executive Coordinators: Enrique Medina and Chinomnso John  Okebie

Additionally, there are first year students and alumni who would support the activities! We can make this grow and improve the work if we get more volunteers   New ideas are always welcome                                            

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All the best,

IMRD-A active members