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MIT unveils plans for a major
new research Center in Singapore ¡ª It¡¯s SMART! |
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and the National Research Foundation of Singapore today announced plans
to establish a major new research center in Singapore in 2007. |
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The Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and
Technology (SMART) Center will be MIT¡¯s first such research center of
its kind outside of Cambridge, MA and MIT¡¯s largest international
research endeavor ever. |
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MIT¡¯s decision to partner with the National
Research Foundation in this new venture reflects tremendous interest and
enthusiasm on the part of MIT¡¯s faculty. |
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The SMART Center will serve as an
intellectual hub for interactions between MIT and global researchers in
Singapore at exciting frontier areas of science and technology. |
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The center will be first of several
world-class centers planned by the National Research Foundation in the
international Campus for Research Excellence and Technological
Enterprise (CREATE). |
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MIT President Susan Hockfield and Chairman
of the National Research Foundation Tony Tan announced the plans at a
joint press conference in Singapore today (7 Jul 2006). |
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¡°The SMART Center will offer participants
from MIT and Singapore unique opportunities to advance research agendas
that will shape the development of science and technology in the coming
decades,¡± Hockfield said. ¡°It also represents a new way for MIT to
engage in research on topics of great societal importance and presents
new mechanisms for MIT¡¯s engagement in this important region of the
world.¡± |
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The SMART Center will allow faculty,
researchers and graduate students from MIT to collaborate with their
counterparts from universities, polytechnics, research institutes and
industry in Singapore and in Asia. |
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There will be a continuous cohort of
MIT professors and students at the SMART Center. Major research
interactions will involve groups of post doctoral fellows and
Ph.D. students from MIT as well as affiliated researchers from
other institutions working side by side in the SMART Center. |
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Teo Ming Kian, permanent secretary of
National Research and Development, said, ¡°SMART will be a magnet
for attracting and retaining the best and brightest research
talent from Asia and all over the world.¡± |
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The Center will be led by a senior MIT
professor and housed in a building that will offer laboratories
and computational facilities for research in a number of areas,
including biomedical science, water resources and the environment,
interactive digital media, and scientific and engineering
computation. |
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The SMART Center will also include a
Center for Technological Innovation, modeled after the highly
successful Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT,
whose mission will be to foster close interactions between SMART
researchers and industry in Singapore and the region. This new
center at SMART will provide seed funding and grants on a
competitive basis, aimed at technology transfer. |
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The SMART Center will build on the
already-strong relationships between MIT and Singapore that began
with the establishment of the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) in
1998. This innovative educational and research collaboration
between MIT, the National University of Singapore, and the Nanyang
Technological University promotes academic excellence in graduate
education. |
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Source:
www.nrf.gov.sg Media Release 7
Jul 2006 |
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