Multi-Continental Reach

Global Engagements & Research

Tracing a distinguished career spanning five continents, Dr. Varela's work reflects active global engagements across key international trade and academic hubs. This map visualizes current and historical work locations.

International Scope

Explore Dr. Varela's current and former cross border programming initiatives.

East West International Businesss

This program serves students from the Americas America and Asia in a residentlal envionment for 30 days during the summer term. Students engage, insitio, collaborate in cross cultural teams to produce something meaningful. Students experience a teaching team incudes Asian and American faculty, which provides them expereince taking direction from distinct leadership styles.

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence

In contrast to study abroad programs, this intitiative imports international faculty to help internationalize the curriculum, campus, and community for up to a full academic year.

Global Management Certificate

This program serves graduate students seeking a certificate in Global Management that incpoirporates courses in International Finance, HR, Management, Marketing and Strategy. Similar to the EW Business Program, this includes a tri cluster faculty team drawn from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.