On 25 March 2002, Bauman Moscow State Technical University officially acceded to PEN-International with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in Moscow. Attending the ceremonies were Mr. Reizo Utagawa (executive director, The Nippon Foundation), Dr. Robert Davila (chief executive officer, NTID), Dr. T. Alan Hurwitz (dean for NTID), Dr. Igor Fedorov (rector, BMSTU), Dr. Alexander Stanevsky (director, Center on Deafness of BMSTU), Mr. Victor Smaltzer (president, All-Russia Federation of the Deaf), Mr. Vladimir Bazoev (president, Moscow Federation of the Deaf), Professor Maria Shustorovich (project associate, PEN-International), Dr. James J. DeCaro (director, PEN-International) and Ms. Cynthia Collward (senior sign language interpreter, NTID).
The signing ceremony was preceded by presentations regarding:
- the program for deaf students at BMSTU, and,
- the newly designed PEN-International multimedia lab that will be constructed at Bauman.
Further, the delegation enjoyed visiting classes for deaf students at the university.
