New Delhi: Association of American Universities has appointed a 15-member task force to explore expanding research and higher education partnerships between the United States and India on Tuesday.
The team, in coordination with the Biden administration’s US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), seeks to grow technological and industrial collaboration between the two nations. Members of the task force include representatives from Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The co-chairs to the new task force include Neeli Bendapudi, president, the Pennsylvania State University, Robert J Jones, chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Pradeep K Khosla, chancellor, University of California San Diego, Satish K Tripathi, president, University at Buffalo, and Sunil Kumar, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, Johns Hopkins University.
The task force will meet monthly to determine key focus areas for bilateral research and education cooperation, to identify existing programmes that could provide blueprints for future partnerships, and to formulate strategies on how best to move forward.
“It is nearly impossible in today’s world to make advancements in scientific research and technology without international collaboration and cooperation,” said Barbara R Snyder, president, AAU.
Stating that such international synergy is critical in the face of new global challenges, Yannis C Yortsos, dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, \University of Southern California and a task force member, said: “The extraordinary advances in science and technology and their accelerating rate in recent years have become possible because of the participation of global talent from many disciplines,” said Yortsos, adding, “Such international synergy is increasingly critical as we face important new global challenges, from sustainability to health to security and to enriching the lives of all peoples of our planet.
The new AAU initiative between the US and India in support of the scientific and technology enterprise will enable new discoveries, cultivate new ecosystems in thought leadership and innovation with a human-centric focus, and solve existing and emerging global problems for the benefit of humanity.”
The team, in coordination with the Biden administration’s US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), seeks to grow technological and industrial collaboration between the two nations. Members of the task force include representatives from Purdue University, Pennsylvania State University, Johns Hopkins University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The co-chairs to the new task force include Neeli Bendapudi, president, the Pennsylvania State University, Robert J Jones, chancellor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Pradeep K Khosla, chancellor, University of California San Diego, Satish K Tripathi, president, University at Buffalo, and Sunil Kumar, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, Johns Hopkins University.
The task force will meet monthly to determine key focus areas for bilateral research and education cooperation, to identify existing programmes that could provide blueprints for future partnerships, and to formulate strategies on how best to move forward.
“It is nearly impossible in today’s world to make advancements in scientific research and technology without international collaboration and cooperation,” said Barbara R Snyder, president, AAU.
Stating that such international synergy is critical in the face of new global challenges, Yannis C Yortsos, dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering, \University of Southern California and a task force member, said: “The extraordinary advances in science and technology and their accelerating rate in recent years have become possible because of the participation of global talent from many disciplines,” said Yortsos, adding, “Such international synergy is increasingly critical as we face important new global challenges, from sustainability to health to security and to enriching the lives of all peoples of our planet.
The new AAU initiative between the US and India in support of the scientific and technology enterprise will enable new discoveries, cultivate new ecosystems in thought leadership and innovation with a human-centric focus, and solve existing and emerging global problems for the benefit of humanity.”
