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Explore US-India university partnerships in high-impact areas with AAU task force co-chaired by Sunil Kumar from Bengaluru.
In 2023, the Association of American Universities (AAU) formed a task force on expanding United States-India university partnerships with the idea of exploring how research institutions in both countries can work together to expand bilateral research and partnerships in higher education.
A report released by the task force identified five high-impact areas of collaboration, including semiconductor technology and manufacturing, sustainable agriculture and food security, sustainable energy and the environment, health equity and pandemic preparedness, and other critical and emerging technologies such as advanced materials, telecommunications, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and quantum science.
Sunil Kumar, the fourteenth president of the Tufts University in the US, is one of the co-chairs of the task force. Kumar, who grew up in Bengaluru and is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), spoke to The Hindu on the AAU task force, what the research communities in India and the US could learn from each other and how the larger science community could benefit from cross-border collaborations.
Excerpts from the interview on National Science Day.
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