DASNR
International
Student of the Week
Home Country:
Mexico
Above: Catedral, Ciudad Juárez
Ciudad Juárez , Mexico :
Ciudad Juárez, also known as just Juárez and formerly known as El Paso del Norte, is a city and seat of the municipality of Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Juárez has an estimated population of 1.5 million people. It stands on the Rio Grande (Río Bravo del Norte), across the U.S. border from El Paso, Texas. El Paso and Ciudad Juárez comprise one of the largest binational metropolitan areas in the world with a combined population of 2.5 million people. In fact, Ciudad Juárez is one of the fastest growing cities in the world. For instance, a few years ago, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas published that in Ciudad Juárez “the average annual growth over the 10-year period [1990-2000] was 5.3 percent. Juárez experienced much higher population growth than the state of Chihuahua and than Mexico as a whole.” In 2000, the United Nations reported that the world's population was growing at a rate of 1.14%.
More than 60,000 people cross the Juárez-El Paso border every day making it a major port of entry and transportation for all of central northern Mexico. The city has a growing industrial center which is made up in large part by the more than 300 maquiladoras (assembly plants) located in and around the city. According to a 2007 The New York Times article, Ciudad Juárez “is now absorbing more new industrial real estate space than any other North American city.” In 2008, Ciudad Juárez was designated as “The City of the Future” by the prestigious magazine “Foreign Direct Investment” published by the influential “Financial Times group.”
According to the prestigious magazine América Economía, this border metropolis has always been ranked as one of the best major cities to do business in Latin America. The binational metropolitan area of Ciudad Juárez-El Paso is "ranked 16th in trade among the largest Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States."
The New York Times has commented on the exquisite restaurants of Ciudad Juárez, describing them as places that offer “the old-school bon-vivant elegance of Mexico as well as some excellent culinary innovation.” (Source: Wikipedia)
Cynthia Guadalupe Nuñez Diaz
March 31, 2009
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From the Department of Agricultural Economics
This week’s international student of the week is Cynthia Guadalupe Nuñez Diaz. She is a visiting scholar in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Cynthia is from Mexico she is currently finishing her masters in agricultural economics in Universidad Autonóma de Chapingo. Cynthia has a BS in Economics from the Universidad Autonóma de Ciudad Juárez. She speaks Spanish and English.
Cynthia came to the USA because it is a country that offers many opportunities; she wants to expand her educational and personal knowledge. She chose OSU because of its good academic reputation; in addition, her home University - Chapingo - has a Memorandum of Understanding with OSU that she used as a channel.
In her free time Cynthia enjoys reading, going to the gym, and listening to music. Cynthia is the fifth of six children, her parents Jose Manuel Nuñez and Guadalupe Diaz are very proud of her. Cynthia's future plans are to enroll for a Ph.D., hopefully at Oklahoma State! She wants to be a successful professional in her area. Advisor: Dr. Mike Dicks Cynthia’s advice to students: “If you can visit a new country and learn about new cultures, it is an opportunity not to be missed, it is worth living the experience.” Interview by Sandra Rodriguez
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