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U.S.\u00a0Representative Michael Baumgartner (left), Voiland Dean Partha Pande (center), and CAHNRS Dean Raj Khosla were among those that welcomed Consul General Prakash Gupta to the Pullman campus (photo courtesy of WSU).<\/p>\nWashington State University recently hosted Prakash Gupta, consulate general of India, on the Pullman campus for a presentation about the special relationship between the United States and India.<\/p>\n
Gupta, who is based in Seattle, said during his early March presentation that agricultural technology is an important field where an exchange of resources, research, faculty, and students could greatly benefit both countries and WSU.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen it comes to WSU, we are very keen to work with ag tech,\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n
Students from India routinely number in the top two for international student enrollment at WSU. Often, the draw is WSU\u2019s R1 status, particularly for nuclear science, engineering, and agriculture, among other disciplines.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Dean of the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences, Raj Khosla, and Dean of the Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture, Partha Pande, attended the event, and Gupta suggested possible avenues for future partnership with the colleges.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore frequent student exchanges, more faculty exchanges, and whether we can work together to do joint research are some of the steps we should work on,\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n
Gupta\u2019s team also toured research facilities at Voiland and at the College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resources Sciences\u2019 Plant Growth Facility.<\/p>\n
U.S.\u00a0Representative Michael Baumgartner (left), Voiland Dean Partha Pande (center), and CAHNRS Dean Raj Khosla were among those that welcomed Consul General Prakash Gupta to the Pullman campus (photo courtesy of WSU).<\/p>\n
Gupta was invited to the event by Michael Baumgartner, U.S. Representative for Washington\u2019s Fifth Congressional District. Baumgartner\u2019s team partnered with WSU\u2019s government relations team and International Programs to coordinate the event. About 60 people attended, which included a Q & A with Gupta and Baumgartner.<\/p>\n
Discussions focused on strengthening academic and research partnerships, increasing student mobility, and fostering deeper intellectual exchange between institutions in the US and India.<\/p>\n
Gupta said inviting faculty to spend a month at Indian universities would be a great starting point to build on the exchange of students and faculty.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could have an MOU between universities that could lead to expanding study abroad and joint research projects,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
WSU President Betsy Cantwell spoke at the beginning of the event, highlighting the land-grant mission and its relevance across the globe.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want students from Washington to experience by going there to see what it is to be in India, what it feels like, what the people are like. And then come back and make further partnerships realized,\u201d Cantwell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington State University recently hosted Prakash Gupta, consulate general of India, on the Pullman campus for a presentation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-554296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}