UM, UET Peshawar Forge Partnership

The University of Maryland and the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Peshawar (Pakistan), have entered into a five-year academic linkage agreement.

The schools will exchange faculty and students to work on research, teaching and to study. As part of the partnership, 30 professors from UET will be trained at graduate levels at UM.

UM Pres. C.D. Mote, Jr., Provost Nariman Farvardin and Clark School Interim Dean Herbert Rabin signed the agreement along with Faqir Syed Asif Hussain, counselor of the Pakistani embassy in Washington, D.C.

Published May 12, 2008