AsianScientist (Jul 30, 2014) – China’s Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment (IMHE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of the Punjab, Pakistan on July 22, 2014, in the hope of strengthening international cooperation between the two parties.
The MoU was signed by IMHE director Deng Wei and Professor Muhammad Akhtar, delegate of University of the Punjab. It mainly focuses on collaboration in such aspects as joint research programs, collaboration on individual research projects, training of individual scientists, exchange visits of individual scientists, exchange of scientific and technical information, and joint party of symposia, conferences, workshops and lectures.
Pakistan is one of IMHE’s most important international partners in South Asia, with international cooperation relationships with the University of Peshawar beginning from 2009. The University of the Punjab, established in 1882 at Lahore, is the largest and the oldest seat of higher learning in Pakistan. It was the first to be established in the sub-continent in Muslim majority area and has produced two Nobel laureates, biochemist Har Gobind Khorana and theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam.
The University comprises of 5 campuses, 13 faculties, 10 constituent colleges, over 73 departments, centers, institutes, and 614 affiliated colleges. It has over 818 permanent faculty members involved in teaching/research and over 36,000 campus students.
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Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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