University of Dayton China Research Institute (Suzhou) to Settle Down in SIP

Suzhou Industrial Park Administrative Committee and University of Dayton signed a MOU on strategic cooperation on December 3 at Suzhou Dushu Lake Hotel. According the MOU, the two sides were to set up University of Dayton China Research Institute (Suzhou) in SIP Dushu Lake Sci-Edu Innovation Park with the strategic aim to build the research institute into a Chinese base for the transfer of Dayton's high-tech research results and the training of high-end talents. 

Founded in 1850, University of Dayton is the largest private university in the state of Ohio, U.S.A, and one of the top 100 American academic institutions with its academic disciplines such as materials and electro-optics ranking the foremost 5.

Based on academic advantages of the university and the requirements of SIP's leading industries, University of Dayton China Research Institute (Suzhou) was to closely cooperate with Chinese universities in SIP Sci-Edu Innovation Park to gradually open academic disciplines, including nano-technology, bio-medicine, electro-optics, renewable and clean energy, intellectual property rights and counting process, and finance, and to cultivate high-end talents and carry out diversified in-service trainings. In addition, the two sides would build up a batch of high-level R&D platforms in the fields of common concern to conduct scientific researches and technological R&D to meet the needs of application and market, and cooperate with top-class Chinese universities for scientific researches to serve Chinese economic and social development by taking advantages of University of Dayton's advanced scientific technologies, leading scientists and R&D staff. 

Yang Zhiping, Director of SIPAC, said that SIP would try its best to guarantee the smooth progress of University of Dayton China Research Institute (Suzhou), the first joint educational institution set by SIP and an American university.

University of Dayton President Daniel J. Curran spoke highly of SIP's warm reception, and said that though he had been to Suzhou for over 20 times, SIP's rapid development had still taken him and his colleagues by surprise and he was full of confidence in the cooperation with SIP. "In the first half of 2011, professors and scholars of University of Dayton will make inspection tours of SIP and SIP Dushu Lake Sci-Edu Innovation Park in the hope of substantially promoting establishment and development of the research institute as soon as possible," said Curran.

December 6, 2010