December Newsletter - 2011
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Dear friends,
Wising you a merry Christmas and a very happy new year. Here are the current happenings related to IIT Bombay across the globe. GO-IITB 2011 Donate NOW
The 2011 Fundraising Campaign is underway. This is an opportunity for alums to express their gratitude to IITB with their financial support. GO-IITB 2010 was a grand success with the most number of participants ever, and we need your help to beat that record this time around ... click here to learn how, and click here to read the newly issued IITBHF 2011 Annual Report...more
Donations are coming in and competition among batches is heating up! Based on latest reports Class of '70 (C70) who held their 40-year reunion and the Class of '75 (C75) are in a neck-to-neck race. But this is not a 2 batch race - Class of '86 (C86) is having its 25-year reunion and is obviously expected to be in the lead and other batches are frantically trying to catch up to join the GiG - Gang in Giving.
President Obama Appoints IIT-B Alum at Top Energy Job
President Barack Obama has appointed Arun Majumdar, an IIT-Bombay alumnus as the top bureaucrat in the Department of Energy. Announcing the appointment of Majumdar as under secretary of energy along with four other key administration posts, Obama said: “These men and women have demonstrated knowledge and dedication throughout their careers...more
IIT-B Class of '86 to Establish Counseling Service
To address the academic and psychological problems faced by students of IIT Bombay, the focus of the institute’s 1986 batch will be to establish a dedicated “counselling services programme”. The initiative is part of the legacy project of the 1986 batch, titled “student quality of life improvement”. The alumni are getting together this month for their silver jubilee reunion...more
IIT-B Grads Prefer Challenging Profiles to Mundane Engg Jobs
In a departure from all-season favorite core company jobs like engineering, IIT-Bombay students are preferring non-core company jobs such as management consulting, finance and retail management this placement season...more
UID Project Future Uncertain
The future of the ambitious Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) project led by Nandan Nilekani - an IITB alumnus - could be at stake as a parliamentary standing committee is understood to have rejected the National Identification Bill 2010, citing a number of flaws in it. The UID project has received a lot of press from all over the world including the New York Times...more
IIT Bombay's Web Presence
IIT Bombay has now a strong web presence on leading social and professional networking sites. Please visit the official Facebook Page or join the Facebook Group or follow IIT Bombay on twitter. Get regular updates through RSS feeds. Alumni interested in professional networking can visit the LinkedIn group. To watch videos related to IIT Bombay visit the official Youtube channel. |
December 2011
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EVENTS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
ALUMNI IN THE NEWS
Please write to us at alumnioffice@iitbombay.org with news items featuring IIT Bombay or any of our alumni. TRIVIA
The first lecture of IIT Bombay happened on June 25, 1958 in a building in Worli, Mumbai. The building belonged to Synthetic and Art Silk Mills Research Association (SASMIRA) and was used since construction of IIT Bombay was not complete by then.
NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWS IN BRIEF: Visit http://www.iitbombay.org/news for all the news ...
Within 4 days of campus placements starting at IIT-Bombay close to 400 students have already been offered jobs...more
Forty IITians of 1971 batch, celebrated their 40th reunion over this weekend...more
While most students at IIT-B are being lured by fat pay packages at ongoing placements there are few who are holding on to their dream of being entrepreneurs...more
HRD ministry has set up a committee to prepare a roadmap for the implementation of IIT reforms suggested by a panel headed by Anil Kakodkar...more
Mood Indigo will see about 80-100 students from top foreign universities perform in IIT-B's campus from December 18 to 21...more
Please consider adding iitb.aa.hf@gmail.com to your Safe Senders' list (or similar).
Sincerely,
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