It was an interesting moment to meet Prof Dato' Aminah Ayub, the Vice Chancellor of UPSI at a recent event in UiTM. Dato' Aminah and I were attending the same university: University of Iowa, USA in the early 1980s. She was then doing her Master in Biology and I was in my third year BBA. Also present for the event was UKM's vice chancellor, Tan Sri Prof Dr Sharifah Hafsah. Perhaps ARI can soon initiative collaborative research with UPSI & UKM...After all, ARI must embark on multi-diciplinary research.