Neil Dyer, professor of veterinary and microbiological sciences and director of the NDSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, and Charlie Stoltenow, associate professor of animal sciences and Extension veterinarian, will participate in an exchange program with the Mongolian Agriculture University School of Veterinary Medicine in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. They are scheduled to be in Mongolia from Oct. 29 to Nov. 9.

The exchange program is a continuation of an educational cooperation agreement signed between the Mongolian Agriculture University, Mongolia Veterinarians and Educators Training Professionals non-governmental organization and NDSU. President Chapman signed the agreement in November 2007.

Dyer and Stoltenow currently provide distance instruction to Mongolian graduate veterinarians enrolled in a Mongolian Agriculture University School of Veterinary Medicine Master’s Degree Program administered by Mongolia Veterinarians and Educators Training Professionals Non-governmental Organization.

Dyer’s efforts will focus on instructing students in pathology and teaching proper techniques in performing a necropsy. Stoltenow’s efforts will lay the foundation for a veterinary Extension program in Mongolia and evaluate the distance education capabilities of the program, demonstrating distance education tools and making recommendations on how to enhance the distance education experience.

This is the second visit to Mongolia for both Dyer and Stoltenow, but it is the first trip under the educational education agreement.