Seoul, South Korea — New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy introduced right now the signing of 4 Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) with Korean establishments: one between Rutgers, The State College of New Jersey, and Seoul Nationwide College in Seoul, one other between the New Jersey Institute of Expertise and Korea Astronomy and Area Science Institute in Daejeon, a 3rd between Kean College and Soongsil College, and a fourth between Kean College and Sangmyung College. The agreements, signed throughout the Select New Jersey Governor-led financial mission to East Asia, goal to develop and broaden beforehand established partnerships that promote analysis and alternate applications.
“We’re excited to deepen our bilateral instructional alternate with South Korean establishments, providing each South Korean and New Jersey college students a possibility to broaden their tutorial horizons and strengthen the connection between our two international locations,” mentioned Governor Murphy. “These agreements lay the groundwork for alternatives that can assist our state’s financial progress and promote worldwide innovation. It’s our hope that these collaborations will foster lasting partnerships between these premier establishments.”
Rutgers College and Seoul Nationwide College have a longstanding partnership that started in 2009, primarily targeted on pupil alternate. The MOU signed right now will broaden that partnership past pupil alternate to college visits and analysis collaboration. The colleges are inspired to supply joint programs and distance studying alternatives for his or her college students.
Government Vice President and Chief Working Officer, Antonio M. Calcado and Assistant Vice President for International Affairs, Ji-Yeung Jang had been in Seoul representing Rutgers College.
“We’re excited to be increasing our relationship with Seoul Nationwide College,” mentioned Eric (Rick) Garfunkel, Vice President for International Affairs at Rutgers College. “Our longstanding pupil alternate partnership has been vital, and we stay up for extra collaborative alternatives in different areas. It’s price mentioning that there are sturdy ties between Rutgers and SNU, as President RYU Hong Lim is a Rutgers alumnus and Senior Worldwide Officer Theresa Cho was a tenured professor at Rutgers Enterprise Faculty.”
“We hope that the tie between Rutgers and Seoul Nationwide College will present an impetus for necessary analysis collaboration to assist us address international challenges such because the pandemic,” mentioned Professor Theresa Cho, Vice President of Worldwide Affairs at Seoul Nationwide College.
The MOU between New Jersey Institute of Expertise (NJIT) and the Korea Astronomy and Area Science Institute (KASI) focuses totally on collaborative analysis in photo voltaic physics. This partnership, initially established in 2014, permits scientists and engineers from KASI to make the most of photo voltaic telescopes and devices owned by NJIT. NJIT will present visiting Korean scientists with 20 full-day observations within the Huge Bear Photo voltaic Observatory. The researchers will share observational knowledge and experience and theoretical information associated to knowledge evaluation.
“This settlement expands over twenty years of continued collaboration between these two establishments, and it’s an necessary step to additional our mutual dedication to scientific discovery, instrumentation innovation, and training,” mentioned Wenda Cao, NJIT professor of physics and director of the Huge Bear Photo voltaic Observatory. “KASI has participated within the development of the Goode Photo voltaic Telescope (GST), one of many highest decision photo voltaic telescopes on this planet, constructed by NJIT. Since its first mild, the GST has been extremely productive in scientific output and within the improvement of state-of-the-art instrumentation. Present customers are distributed over 63 universities, institutes, and observatories in 21 international locations.”
Korean Astronomy and Area Science Institute President Younger-Deuk Park mentioned, “KASI has been cooperating with NJIT within the subject of photo voltaic physics since 2001. Beginning in 2005, KASI and NJIT participated within the development of 1.6-meter aperture photo voltaic telescope (previously referred to as New Photo voltaic Telescope; NST, now modified because the GST) which was the most important photo voltaic telescope on this planet. This collaboration resulted in vital analysis achievements in high-resolution photo voltaic commentary research. The settlement between KASI and NJIT goals to broaden the scope of cooperation in ground-based photo voltaic exercise analysis to the sector of heliophysics, together with solar-terrestrial and planetary physics sooner or later, which might be a significant driving pressure within the period of house exploration.”
“The collaboration between KASI and NJIT/BBSO has not solely led to the event of cutting-edge know-how however has additionally fostered significant connections between scientists, transcending geographical boundaries,” mentioned In-Soo Yuk, Vice President of Korea Astronomy and Area Science Institute. “The BBSO will function an necessary worldwide cooperation base for KASI’s high-resolution photo voltaic observations. Primarily based on this sturdy photo voltaic analysis partnership between KASI and NJIT, we anticipate that we can broaden and develop analysis cooperation within the subject of near-field house setting sooner or later.”
Kean College and Soongsil College adopted an MOU that permits for the alternate of scholars, college, and workers along with the implementation of collaborative analysis tasks, lectures, and tutorial conferences. Kean College signed a further MOU with Sangmyung College, encouraging tutorial cooperation by means of the sharing of supplies, alternate of scholars, college, and researchers alongside the formation of joint analysis tasks.
“Kean College is happy to additional broaden its cross-cultural collaborations in Asia by means of these agreements with Soongsil College and Sangmyung College,” mentioned Kean President Lamont O. Repollet, Ed.D. “These excellent universities provide alternatives for joint analysis, conferences, lectures and seminars for our college students and college, increasing on the tutorial and cultural engagement that Kean has established on this area. I applaud Governor Murphy for his management in fostering worldwide cooperation in increased training, which aligns completely with Kean’s position as New Jersey’s city analysis college and our eager give attention to advancing variety and inclusion.”
“Select New Jersey takes nice delight in facilitating alternatives for worldwide cooperation and academic improvement,” mentioned Wesley Mathews, President and CEO of Select New Jersey. “These agreements will permit students in New Jersey and South Korea to come back collectively to advance joint analysis and scientific innovation. We plan to broaden on these partnerships and proceed to construct worldwide relationships that might be useful to New Jersey college students in addition to their counterparts in South Korea.”
Reporters curious about extra data on the New Jersey East Asia financial mission might contact Mahen Gunaratna (mahen.gunaratna@nj.gov) and Ingrid Austin (iaustin@choosenj.com) or go to choosenj.com/EastAsiaMission for extra particulars.
