At a special reception and dinner Tuesday at Mexico City’s historic Palacio de Autonomía, USC President C. L. Max Nikias honored Mexican Foreign Secretary José Antonio Meade Kuribreña with the inaugural Judge Widney Award.
Nikias presented the award in recognition of Meade’s leadership and the important gains Mexico’s foreign ministry has made in establishing educational diplomacy and building research and innovation partnerships between Mexico and the United States.
Special ceremony
Sergio Alcocer Martínez de Castro, undersecretary for North America, accepted the award on behalf of Meade, who is on a trade mission to the United Kingdom. Also attending the special ceremony were U.S. Ambassador to Mexico E. Anthony Wayne and Meade’s father, Dionisio Meade. The elder Meade is president of Fundación UNAM, a nonprofit that conducts philanthropic and other activities relating to the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the oldest university in North America.
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