The University of Hyderabad forges collaboration with Canadian varsity

Hyderabad: A generic Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Hyderabad (UoH) and the University of Saskatchewan (UoS), Canada was signed by the Vice-Chancellor of the UoH, Professor Appa Rao Podile and Prof. Peter Stoicheff, President and Vice Chancellor of UoS on Tuesday on UoH campus. 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.ManjulaSritharan, Chairman-MoU Committee and Prof. G S Prasad, Coordinator R&D and Director TIE-U.

In a presentation to the delegation the Vice Chancellor of 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 University of Saskatchewan (UoS), Prof. Peter Stoicheff mentioned about the achievements of his university. "UoS is among the top 15 research universities in Canada and are ranked in the top 400 institutions by QS World Rankings". He has informed the gathering that 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 UoH 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.