Sri Venugopal Endowment Lecture has been instituted in the name of Mr. V Venugopal, father of Mr. V Mohan Rao, past president of MRF. Dr Gerald D Cagle delivered the 14th lecture in the series on the topic, “Product-Oriented Research: Opportunities and Challenges of Industry-Academic Collaborations”, at Hotel Accord Metropolitan Hotel. This was well attended and well received. Dr Cagle emphasized the need for industrial-academic collaboration in research project to benefit the society at large.