From Uzbekistan to Green Bay: grad student sees future in cotton

Rustam Ahmedov, believed to be the first international student from Uzbekistan to attend UW-Green Bay, is studying Marketing here this year via the federally funded Edmund S. Muskie Graduate Fellowship. He speaks six languages — Tajik, Uzbek, English, Russian, Turkish and Japanese — has two young daughters, and has high hopes for his wife’s dress shop back home and his own dreams of becoming a player in Uzbekistan’s leading industries (cotton production and textile manufacturing). We have a photo and nice feature by editorial intern Daniele Frechette, read more.