Our recent Penn State University delegation built on relationships developed over previous visits, exploring how we can work together in ways that benefit students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

Meetings with universities, legal institutions, law firms, and industry partners covered student internships and exchanges, collaborative research and teaching, professional education, and the changes AI is bringing to legal practice. Traveling with colleagues from across Penn State helped connect these discussions with expertise and interests beyond the law school.

For Penn State Dickinson Law, these relationships help connect our teaching and scholarship with international practice. For the wider University, they offer avenues for collaboration across law, AI, data science, and business. The conversations were richer because colleagues could ask different questions and recognize possibilities outside their own fields.

I was particularly glad to gather with Penn State alumni and friends in Singapore. Our alumni are an important part of this work, bringing their experience, local knowledge, and relationships to the conversation. It was a pleasure to hear their stories and spend time together.

The hospitality throughout the week meant a great deal: the care that went into arranging our visits, the openness of our discussions, and the welcome around so many tables.

Thank you to my fellow delegates, Ángela Sánchez Gago, LL.M. | Guido Cervone | Joe Rively | Larry Catá Backer | Tom Lee | Scott Frank | Jing He | Lily Xue Dong, and to the colleagues whose support made the trip possible, including our former, acting, and interim deans Danielle Conway | Laura H. Williams | Sarah J. Williams, as well as our colleagues Josh Trego | Jessica Seretti.

I have thanked our hosts and counterparts individually in the comments. I am grateful for the time and thought they shared with us.

We returned with friendships renewed, new colleagues to work with, and a clear priority: following through on these conversations so that more of our Penn State community can take part.