US Consul General at Kolkata Melinda Pavek today visited the North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) and informed about the QUAD fellowship, a first-of-its-kind scholarship program for doctoral students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to study in the United States, for which India is a partner.
During her visit Pavek expressed her deep satisfaction at wide ranging discussions on mutually beneficial cooperation and collaboration in some of the most cutting edge areas of science and technology, American studies, indigenous culture and literature- all of which can go into a prospective people to people collaboration.
NEHU Vice Chancellor, Prof. Prabha Shankar Shukla exhorted the newly established International Affairs Office for setting up and over-arching framework of NEHU Indo-US educational partnership. He specifically mentioned luminaries of NEHU Prof. Temsula Ao, Prof. David Reid Syiemlieh and many other present scholars and teachers who not only got a meaningful stint in the United States, but contributed to building up solid foundations for NEHU and United States partnership.
Prof. Shukla pointed out the synergies already existing between a range of disciplines starting from Management, Bioinformatics and Nanosciences to Humanities and Social Sciences with advancement of research in various US laboratories and Universities.
An interaction session was also held with NEHU academia where a large number of students, research scholars, scientists and professors elaborated upon possible areas of long term collaboration within the integrated country strategy currently drawn up between India and United States.
Pavek emphasized on the role of block chain technology in resource sharing and managing HR, health care and wide ranging genomic research.
