b'International Research CollaborationsProfessor Orlando Baiocchi UW Tacoma Endowed Professor in Engineering Systems, Dr. Orlando Baiocchi, is leveraging international connections to harvest energy from trees. He is collaborating with a group of researchers in Brazil and Por-tugal on projects involving wireless network sensors and energy harvesting. If youre curious about what that work involves, you can learn more in this UW Tacoma story. Visiting Scholar Elsa Muoz Garcia Elsa Muoz Garcia, a Ph.D. student at the Universitat de Barcelona, is one of the eight visiting scholars UW Tacoma hosted in the last academic year. She has been working on her dissertation research with Drs. Aria-na Ochoa Camacho and Alex Miller.She is pursuing a Ph.D. in gender studies, and her dissertation focuses on the philosophy and activism of Kurdish women who grew up in Europe. Im interested in how they adapt to the country where they live while also retaining their ideology and culture. You can read more about Elsas background and dissertation research in this UW Tacoma story.'