Hyderabad: A generic Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and the University of Saskatchewan (UoS), Canada was signed by UoH Vice-Chancellor Prof. Appa Rao Podile and Prof. Peter Stoicheff, President and Vice-Chancellor of UoS on Tuesday.
The MoU was signed in the presence of Prof.Arun Agarwal, PVC1; Prof. B Raja Shekhar, PVC2; Prof. N Siva Kumar, Director-International Affairs; Prof. Manjula Sritharan, Chairman-MoU Committee and Prof. G S Prasad, Coordinator R&D and Director TIE-U.
In a presentation to the delegation, Prof. Appa Rao highlighted the achievements of UoH. He has also informed the delegation that “UoH been selective in having collaboration with Eminent Institutions around the World”. President and VC of the University of Saskatchewan (UoS), Prof. Peter Stoicheff mentioned the achievements of his university. “UoS is among the Top 15 Research Universities in Canada and is ranked in the top 400 Institutions by QS World Rankings”. He has informed the gathering that the University of Hyderabad is the first Institution the delegation is visiting in India and through this MoU, UoS looks forward to working in close collaboration with you on mutually interesting areas.
Other members of the delegation include Professor James Lee, Executive Director of International; Dr.Meghna Ramaswamy, Director of International Research; Ms. Kathryn Warden, Director of Research Profile and Impact, Dr.Brij Sinha, Faculty Member in Religious Studies. The delegation later visited the School of Life Sciences, UoH – BioNest (Bio-incubator Nurturing Entrepreneurship for Scaling Technologies, and the Centre for Nanotechnology and interacted with faculty.
