Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (IIT Bombay), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together to foster world-class programs that will advance scientific research, graduate education and technological development in fundamental and applied chemical sciences. Nadhmi A. Al-Nasr, interim president of KAUST, and Professor Ashok Misra, director of IIT Bombay, signed the nonbinding pledge to establish a solid base of research that will be internationally competitive across a broad range of disciplines and in many multidisciplinary areas, according to a report of Arab News. “We are gratified by this new relationship with IIT Bombay as a further extension of our collaborative arrangements with other world-class research institutions,” said Al-Nasr, referring to recent agreements to promote research partnerships with the US-based Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Institute Français du Petrole in France and the National University of Singapore. “We believe the results of these shared activities will benefit both parties — and indeed, all of mankind — by bringing us together to work on scientific and technological projects that are of interest to us all. Likewise, we are counting on this type of collaborative exchange of ideas, faculty and students, and formal research activities with KAUST,” Misra said. --MORE
