Obama-Singh 21st Century Knowledge Initiative Award Project: STEM Education & Research Faculty Training in India
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2014-05-01
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
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The objective is to enhance educational excellence and collaborative research to address global challenges in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) areas by training Indian Ph.D. students for world-class faculty by OSU faculty members. For the project, the OSU partnership with Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) in India received one of the four high-profile Obama-Singh Knowledge Initiative Awards in 2013, and support for the first batch of students has been secured. The project is under the globalization objective of OSU and is expected to facilitate the plan and work to expand and form the coalition between the Big Ten universities along with the University of Chicago in the U.S. and Indian universities under OSU leadership.
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IMPACT. 1: OSU-AMU Center of Excellence for STEM ER (Education and Research) at AMU was inaugurated by William Brustein, Pat Osmer, and David Williams in November 2013, and the Memorendum of Agreement between OSU and AMU was signed. -- 2. A new two-year academic curriculum for the degree of MEd-STEM for Indian postgraduate students has been approved by the OSU Council of Academic Affairs and is ready to be launched in June 2014. -- 3. Anil K. Pradhan and Sultana N. Nahar have been in meetings with about 20 Indian universities regarding proposals to submit to Indian government agencies for continuation of support for more postgraduate students to the program.
OSU PARTNERS: College of Arts and Sciences; College of Engineering; College of Education and Human Ecology; Department of Radiology Department of Neuoscience; Office of International Affairs
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Indian Universities: Aligarh Muslim University; Delhi University; Kashmir University
PRIMARY CONTACT: Sultana Nahar (nahar.1@osu.edu)
OSU PARTNERS: College of Arts and Sciences; College of Engineering; College of Education and Human Ecology; Department of Radiology Department of Neuoscience; Office of International Affairs
COMMUNITY PARTNERS: Indian Universities: Aligarh Muslim University; Delhi University; Kashmir University
PRIMARY CONTACT: Sultana Nahar (nahar.1@osu.edu)
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Engaged Scholars, v. 2 (2014).