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Dear friends,
IIT Bombay continues to be the preferred destination for top ranking candidates of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). After the first round of course allotment, 68 of the top 99 rankers have chosen IIT Bombay ... more.
Registrations for the Class of '85 Silver Jubilee Reunion have crossed the century mark, so hurry up and visit the SJRU website and register online ... more. The Class of 1970 is about to launch its registration site too for their grand 40th reunion. '70-ites should visithttp://www.iitbombay.org for regular updates ... more.
Becoming a Life Member of IITBAA has just become a lot easier ... you can apply and pay online using a credit card. Getting an Alumni Card will make it easier for alumni to visit the campus or to stay in the Guest House ... more. Many of you asked about this in the discussion forum on the growing and active IIT Bombay Group on LinkedIn ... more.
Alumni are also reminded to register soon for PanIIT 2010 to be held in New Delhi from Oct 29-31, 2010. PanIIT 2010 addresses the imperatives of an emerging "New India", and speakers and delegates will deliberate on the various facets of growth and transformation and identify ways and means to ensure sustainable and equitable use of available human and natural resources in India ... more.
Alumni are invited to update their Online Yearbook where you can store old and new pictures and memories, and update your friends on what's new and special in your life ... more. You can use the instant password reminder facility or write to directory@iitbombay.org for assistance with logins. Remember that your username which can be changed at will is also your lifelong forwarding email address @ iitbombay.org or @ alumni.iitbombay.org.
You are also invited to sign up for IITB's extensive online presence on Twitter, Batch-wise YahooGroups, LinkedIn and FaceBook ... more. |
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Events and Announcements ... more
- Bay Area Chapter networking lunch with Dr. Kanwal Rekhi, MD of Inventus, on Friday, July 9th, at 11:30 am - space is limited, so register now ... more.
- Registrations are open for the Class of '85 SJ Reunion ... more.
- Register now for PanIIT 2010 in New Delhi from Oct 29-31 ... more.
- Latest news about alumni giving back to their Hostels via HATS ... more.
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Alumni in the News:
- Swami Pragyapad, PV Krishna, Sunil Bopardikar, Satish Jamdar, Subu Iyer, Rahul Dash, Saurabh Vyas, Gaurav Rathore, Saumil Majmudar, Ashvin Ragavan, Dr. Bhatia, Manju Hegde, Jawahar Tembulkar, Joseph D'Souza, BG Balagopal ... more.
Please write to us at office@iitbombay.org with news items featuring IIT Bombay or any of our alumni.
NEWS IN BRIEF:
Alumni in the news, June 26Swami Pragyapad shares the secret of centered, calm living at the Neshoba Unitarian Universalist Church in Cordova| P.V. Krishna joins IEEMA as Director GeneralIIT-B design batch displays creationsFrom a host of mobile applications to portable incubators that help the elderly keep in touch with their families, the exhibition at the Industrial Design Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay showcased cutting edge student innovations.IITB alum's musical wins TonyIIT Bombay alum Vijay Vashee ('74) and his wife Sita are Executive Producers of the musical "Memphis" which was selected as "best musical" at the Tony Awards 2010, beating out alternative fare like “American Idiot,” based on the music of rock band Green Day, and “Fela!” about Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti. “Memphis” did get a boost in March when First Lady Michelle Obama took her daughters Sasha and Malia to a performance.Alumni in the News - June 15Sunil Bopardikar appointed VP of Engineering at Coupons.com. He will oversee Coupons.com's product development functions, including engineering, quality assurance, databases and infrastructure. | Satish Jamdar, Managing Director, Blue Star Ltd., India's largest central airconditioning company interviewed on Leader SpeakIITB's Green Campus InitiativeIIT Bombay's 550-acre Powai campus, nestled between hills and a lake, is one of the first educational institutions to attempt to create an environmentally sustainable campus on a large scale. Sustainability means relying on resources generated on campus. The institute is committed to becoming a model campus with regard to environmental conservation.IITB Startups in the News - June 12Tarun Mishra heads Covacsis, a technology start-up located on the IITB campus, which has built a solution called ‘Real time production diagnostics (RTPD)’ which "helps organizations avoid inevitable changes on the production floor" | Dr. Chandrashekar from Vision Healthcare provides clean river quality water at a lower cost | Anil Bahuman is hoping to release the stress farmers face every year as they wait for the seasons to change having co-founded Agrocom a spin off from IIT Bombay.Yahoo India collaborates with IIT BombayRajeev Rastogi, VP and head of Yahoo! Labs India, said that "We are doing research with IIT Bombay on collaboration of search and information extraction." Search will evolve beyond 10 blue links and users will be presented with rich results instead of generic text.”Alumni in the News - June 12Dr. Subu Iyer honored with IBM's highest technical award as an IBM Fellow | Rahul Dash on WSJ India Debate page | Saurabh Vyas and Gaurav Rathore, graduates of IIT Bombay, have founded PoliticalEDGE, a consultancy that uses statistical modeling to help politicians forecast their chances of winning an election | Saumil Majmudar at the helm of EduSports which provides fitness-management programs for children | University of Toronto hosting undergraduate IITBian Ashwin Raghavan for a summer research project | Dr. Bhatia appointed Director of Trinity Institute of Technology in BhopalIIT-B enters space age with satellite trackerIIT-B literally zoomed into the space age with the formal commissioning of a satellite-tracking ground station on the terrace of the aerospace engineering department. The primary role of the new space-age outfit will be to track IIT-B’s eight-kg micro satellite built by students.IITians bag prize for social changeAvanti Fellows, a not-for-profit organisation founded by six IIT Bombay students and alumni, won first place at the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students (BASES) Social Entrepreneurship Challenge last month.Having tied up with IIT-B, Akanksha Foundation and a IIT-JEE coaching institute, Avanti Fellows helps underprivileged students by providing free coaching for the IIT-JEE entrance test.Alumni in the news, June 6AMD Appoints Manju Hegde to Lead Fusion Experience Program| Virtify names Jawahar Tembulkar as vice president of engineering| Energy Recovery Inc Hires Prominent Industry Expert Joseph D'Souza as Cleantech Business Director| Former Disney IP Executive Joins Chadbourne & Parke's Expanding IP Group'Green brick' awarded top honour at IIT-BombayGrowing vegetation in bricks may sound futuristic, but this idea has won Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay’s competition — ‘10 great ideas to change the world in the next 50 years’.
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Team IITBHF & IITBAA
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