Within hours of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, Allyson Delnore at the University of Pittsburgh got an email from a partner at the international office at Newcastle University, several hours north of London. The message said that Newcastle is unsure whether a collaborative research exchange program between the University of Pittsburgh and Newcastle will be affected by the British vote. Ms. Delnore, Pitt’s European Studies Center interim director, thought after reading the email that the future of the program would be in question. “It was just beginning to ramp up,” she said. “We’ll have to shift away from Britain now. ... The U.K. has benefited enormously from the EU.”

July 6, 2016 ・ From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette