"Our CIBER promotes international trade and commerce by spearheading extensive collaboration within Temple and with other regional academic institutions, businesses and executives in eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware," said Arvind Phatak, executive director of Temple's CIBER and The Fox School's Carnell Professor of International Business. "This grant will enable us to continue our work linking this region to global trade and commerce," he added.

Temple University's CIBER is one of only 31 CIBER's in the United States. Other CIBER grantees include the University of Pennsylvania, Duke, Columbia, Indiana, Michigan, North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA.

"This highly competitive CIBER grant confirms the significant advances we have made to expand the depth and reach of The Fox School's international business programs and research, and it recognizes the many achievements of our CIBER," said The Fox School's Dean M. Moshe Porat. "We look forward to the center continuing as a catalyst for international business, research and education within the Temple community and the region."

In its first four years of programming, the Temple CIBER has supported extensive research, including four annual international business research forums, and outreach, including developing international business faculty in community colleges and developing women entrepreneurs for the global marketplace. The CIBER also created new international study abroad and student exchange partnerships with schools in France, Ireland, Mexico, India and the United Arab Emirates.

Over the next four years, Temple CIBER will focus on building bridges with two regions of great importance to the United States: India and the MENA region, which consists of the Middle East and North Africa. The center also will concentrate on research on global security, risk management and critical language development.