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KUWAIT-MIT
Center
for Natural Resources and the Environment (CNRE)
The Kuwait
– MIT Center for Natural Resources and the
Environment (CNRE) is a scientific and technical
strategic partnership between the Foundation and the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Center is based at the MIT Campus (Cambridge,
Massachusetts,
U.S.A.).
The Kuwait
– M.I.T Center will build and strengthen ties
between M.I.T. faculty and the scientific and technical
community in the State of Kuwait.
It aims to focus on Kuwait's
special problems and unique opportunities, understanding
and addressing the key issues related to management of
petroleum and water resources, and protection of the
natural environment.
The mission will be accomplished through a series of
related activities, including outreach programs for
scientific and technical research, scholarly exchange,
and technical personnel within Kuwait.
Agreement Period
Ten years (2005 – 2015)
About Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate
students in science, technology, and other areas of
scholarship that will best serve the nation and the
world in the 21st century.
The Institute is committed to generating, disseminating,
and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to
bring this knowledge to bear on the world's great
challenges. MIT is dedicated to providing its students
with an education that combines rigorous academic study
and the excitement of discovery with the support and
intellectual stimulation of a diverse campus community.
MIT seeks to develop in each member of its community the
ability and passion to work wisely, creatively, and
effectively for the betterment of humankind.
The Institute admitted its first students in 1865, four
years after the approval of its founding charter. The
opening marked the culmination of an extended effort by
William Barton Rogers, a distinguished natural
scientist, to establish a new kind of independent
educational institution relevant to an increasingly
industrialized America. Rogers stressed the pragmatic and practicable.
He believed that professional competence is best
fostered by coupling teaching and research and by
focusing attention on real-world problems. Toward this
end, he pioneered the development of the teaching
laboratory.
Today MIT is a world-class educational institution.
Teaching and research - with relevance to the practical
world as a guiding principle - continue to be its
primary purpose. MIT is independent, coeducational, and
privately endowed. Its five schools and one college
encompass 34 academic departments, divisions, and
degree-granting programs, as well as numerous interdisciplinary
centers, laboratories, and programs whose work cuts
across traditional departmental boundaries.
Components of the Center’s Program
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Kuwait
Faculty Investigators:
The involvement of M.I.T. faculty members permits a
variety of interactions, including research, visits,
and annual course offerings.
These faculty members will be designated as
Kuwait Faculty Investigators and will receive an
annual scholarly allowance to support the critical
work in advancing the goals, exchanges and
objectives of the
Kuwait-M.I.T.
Center.
Participating faculty will form the core of
the team of engineers, scientists, and, social
scientists working in the
Kuwait
–
M.I.T.
Center.
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Kuwait
– MIT Scholarly Exchange Program:
It is envisioned that the
Kuwait-M.I.T.
Center will have two Kuwaiti scholars visiting M.I.T.
during part or all of an academic year, as well as
two or three M.I.T. scholars making short visits to
Kuwait
each year.
The rank of these visitors may vary from
graduate students to engineers, researchers or
professors.
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Kuwait
–
M.I.T.
Center
Consortium:
To develop a consortium of international parties,
interested in natural resources and environmental
science, engineering and policy, including
initiation of the Kuwait-M.I.T. Center Forum.
The Forum is anticipated to be an event for
informal networking for the exchange of ideas.
Website:
http://kmc.scripts.mit.edu/kmc/
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