Shastri News - July 2009
University of Alberta and IIT Bombay form health and energy partnership
Professor Pradipta Banerji, former dean of International Relations at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, visited Edmonton during the first week of July to work out the details of a major partnership with the University of Alberta. The two schools will be collaborating on research into health and energy issues. Their three-year agreement involves joint conferences and workshops, joint research projects and a considerable amount of graduate student mobility.
Both institutions see the potential for their partnership to produce globally-relevant, world-class research. The U of A and IIT Bombay both rank within the top 50 universities in technology-related fields according to the 2008 Times Higher Education QS World University Rankings . In Lifesciences and biomedicine, the U of A is ranked 45th. IIT Bombay is also ranked and gaining ground in these fields, moving up 53 spots in the last year alone.
In an article released by the University of Alberta, President Indira Samarasekera reiterated that, “this really is an opportunity for two ranking institutions to complement our recognized accomplishments and also, perhaps more importantly, use our collective strengths to work together to help prepare our world for the coming centuries.”
IIT Bombay has signed several memorandums of understanding with other universities around the world, including in Canada, but this is the first partnership that it will be investing in financially. Both institutions are demonstrating that they are serious about ensuring that the partnership is productive and they are hoping that it will grow to become a beacon for others.
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