Brown Provost Mark Schlissel and A.K. Suresh, professor of chemical engineering and dean of faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, signed a memorandum of understanding Oct. 10, 2012, agreeing to a short-term faculty exchange between their two institutions. Suresh’s visit is aimed at further strengthening the ties between Brown and IIT-Bombay that were established with the signing of two previous memoranda of understanding in October 2010. Those agreements formalized institutional partnerships to promote a wide array of academic and faculty collaborations between the two schools and to establish an undergraduate student exchange program between the two institutions. Both agreements went into effect January 2011. Also in attendance at the recent signing was Nitin Padture, professor of engineering at Brown.