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 Ramiro
Flores (top right) stands with international interns of the
Benson Institute (left to right) Laura Jiménez, Diego Granda,
Celso Moreno, and Beatríz Ramírez while at the Great Salt
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The success of the Ezra Taft Benson Agriculture and Food Institute depends on the cooperative teamwork of students and professors internationally affiliated with the Institute. To continue improving the level of research that it sponsors, the Benson Institute periodically coordinates a faculty exchange, either sending Brigham Young University faculty to foreign universities or arranging for foreign professors to visit BYU. During the spring of 2000, Ramiro Flores, professor of animal science at San Javier University in Sucre, Bolivia, came to Provo, Utah, to work with Roy Silcox of BYU’s Animal Science Department. Flores’s focus during his stay in Provo was to increase his research skills and knowledge about cattle reproduction.
Flores participated in two projects with Silcox. The first dealt with embryo transplants in livestock, and the second involved synchronizing the estrus (the reproductive cycle) of cattle. Silcox, an experienced researcher in the area of animal reproduction, has been involved in various other projects with the Benson Institute.
Flores said of his stay, “I thought this was a very good program and so much fun.” He has now returned to Bolivia, where he is supervising various students as they conduct research in conjunction with the Benson Institute.