NEWS & UPDATES
April 2010
UP Diliman partners
with Korean university
April 15,
2010---The University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) and
the Seoul National University of Technology (SeoulTech) forged a
Memorandum of Agreement for academic exchange and research
cooperation on April 15, 2010 in Seoul, Korea.
UPD Chancellor
Sergio S. Cao
and his counterpart SeoulTech President Jun-Hyong Rho signed
the Memorandum of Agreement which is deemed to promote academic
excellence and greater international cooperation and deepen cultural
and scientific relations between the two universities through the
exchange of faculty, lecturers, students, teaching and scientific
materials, publications, and information on
building and developing specific laboratories and research centers;
scholarship grants; and
joint researches,
academic development, and other special programs for undergraduate
students.
Done in time for SeoulTech’s 100th
Year Anniversary Celebration, the MOA signing was witnessed by
Dr. Cynthia Grace C. Gregorio, UPD
Vice Chancellor for Community Affairs
and Dean Candido A. Cabrido,
Jr., UP School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP SURP)
and SeoulTech officials.
The UPD delegation also attended the
Anniversary Celebration on April 14 when Chancellor Cao emphasized the
similarities in UPD’s and SeoulTech’s tradition of academic
excellence and thrust of
internationalization of academic programs which make the program of
cooperation particualrly significant.
The institutional linkage was initially
established between the UP School of Urban and Regional Planning (UP
SURP) and the SeoulTech’s Graduate School of Housing through its Dean,
Dr. Byong Gyu Park, based on expertise, friendship, and mutual
interests. Dr. Park was SURP’s very first doctoral graduate under the
PhD in Urban and Regional Planning program. In February 2010, Dean
Cabrido and Dr. Marideth R. Bravo, SURP Graduate Studies
Director visited SeoulTech to discuss and finalize the MOA’s terms
of partnership and cooperation which was expanded to the other units
and programs of the two universities.
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