Additional opportunities for international research programs, labs, conferences, workshops and more will be available to University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty and students after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Food Research Institute (KFRI) in January.
The MOU was signed between the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Associate Dean for Research Walter Bowen, Brent White of UH’s Office of Global Engagement and Hyung-Hee Baek of KFRI.
“KFRI is only one of many government-affiliated research institutes in the food and agriculture sectors in Korea,” said Soojin Jun, a professor in CTAHR’s Department of Human Nutrition, Food, and Animal Sciences. “There are plenty of funding opportunities requiring international collaborations. With this MOU, we anticipate more exchanges of faculty, scholars, and students, academic publications, organizations of joint research programs such as on-site labs, and periodical joint conference meetings or workshops.”
After the signing ceremony, KFRI delegates and UH faculty presented their own research projects and further discussed the potential for collaboration.
