More than 8,000 miles may separate The University of Texas at El Paso and Victoria University (VU) in Melbourne, Australia, but technology has made it possible for faculty and students at both institutions to stay connected.

João Batista Ferreira-Pinto, Ph.D., director of UTEP’s Center for Interdisciplinary Health Research and Evaluation in the College of Health Sciences, and Alan Hayes, Ph.D., assistant dean for the Centre For Health, Research and Education (CHRE) from Victoria University, are prime examples of how the Internet can create a successful teaching collaboration between two universities that are on opposite sides of the world.