UPM AND TOKYO UNIVERSITY INTENSIFY COOPERATION

KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 (Bernama) -- Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ocean Research Institute (ORI),
University of Tokyo, Japan to forge cooperation in the fields of chemistry,
physics and biology, here Monday.

The Dean of the UPM Science Faculty, Prof Sidek Ab Aziz said the MoU also
involved the exchange of researchers and information between the two
universities besides organising lectures and symposiums for a five-year period.

"The MoU strengthens the cooperation which had been forged between both
institutions for the past 10 years through projects led by Prof Ahmad Ismail
from the Biology Department together with scientists from various organisations
in Japan," he said in a statement here.

The MoU was signed by UPM Vice-Chancellor Prof Nik Mustapha R. Abdullah and
ORI Researcher Prof Nobuyuki Miyazaki at the Science Faculty of the UPM, here.

Prof Sidek said currently there were two UPM tutors, who were former
students of the UPM's Biology Department, who were doing research for their
doctorates in philosophy (PhD) at the University of Tokyo.

The University of Tokyo is one of the leading research universities in Asia
which was set up in 1877 and has 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
-- BERNAMA


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