Professor Rydant has returned from Austria where he taught and conducted research at the University of Salzburg. During their spring semester he offered two courses in the Department of Geography and Geology: a graduate course in Natural Resource and Waste Management on a Global Base and a seminar in The Global Economy: Political and Economic Systems across Developed and Developing Regions. Dr. Rydant also conducted continuing research with Professor Wolfgang Kern on the process and patterns of migration of aging populations.