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Dear friends,
Harvard Business School has selected Nitin Nohria ('84) to serve as Dean ... Prof. Nohria, who was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus by IIT Bombay in 2007, will become the school's 10th Dean effective July 1. In an interview, Prof. Nohria said that "I feel very indebted to my alma mater, IIT Bombay, for having prepared me for the challenges life has thrown at me and I don't think I would be here today but for that foundation" ... more.
IIT Bombay was ranked #1 in India in the QS Asian University Rankings but fell six places to 36 in Asia. "The rankings are OK. We are not obsessed with it. Our endeavour is to continue our efforts to excel in teaching and research and we are constantly trying to improve," said Prof. Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay ... more.
Register now for PanIIT 2010 to be held in New Delhi from Oct 29-31, 2010. The theme of the conference is "Sustainable Transformation: Our new India". Tom Friedman, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Gurcharan Das, and Nandan Nilelkani are amongst the many eminent speakers ... more.
HATS continues to call for volunteers wishing to support their hostels ... more. Hostel 4 alumni are writing a book about their times in H4, which is slated for release on Alumni Day on Dec 26. Click here for their Facebook page and contribute anecdotes, memories, pictures etc. ... more.
Alumni are invited to sign up for IITB's extensive online presence on Twitter, Batch-wise YahooGroups, LinkedIn and FaceBook. We also need alumni who can join our all-volunteer team in whatever capacity you can, including leading Chapter activities, representing your batch as a Class Rep, editing the alumni website and so on ... more. |
May 2010
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Events and Announcements ... more
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- PanIIT Southern California Annual Picnic on June 20 in Cerritos, CA - register before May 31 to be eligible for an iPod raffle ... 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:
- Madhu Pandit Dasa, Adil Dhalla, Harish Iodwal, Amit Aggarwal, Jairam Ramesh and others ... more.
Alumni in the news, May 21Distinguished Alumnus Award conferred to Sri. Madhu Pandit Dasa, Chairman, Akshaya Patra Foundation by IIT Mumbai.| GE (NYSE: GE) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) names Adil Dhalla as the new co-chair and director for the NUS-GE Singapore Water Technology Center.| Eko announces the appointment of Harish C lodwal as Chief Technology Officer.4 Indian colour technologists get rare honour from UK's SDCFour Indian Colour Technologists including an IIT mumbai alumni have been bestowed with the most prestigious 'Charted Colourist’ honour by Society of Dyers and Colourist, UK.Virtual IITs: Top degrees a click awayMUMBAI: After half-a-century of being an exclusive club, the Indian Institutes of Technology will finally open their gates wider. Assigned the task of reaching out to more Indian students, IIT directors are drawing up plans to set up a virtual university. IIT-Madras director M S Ananth said, "Wee basically want to make quality education accessible to many more students using modern tools instead of setting up brick-and-mortar campuses."Alumni in the news - May 14The man who oversaw the introduction of the petrol version of the Mercedes Benz C-class with state-of-the-art CGI technology is Bharat Balasubramanian, an IIT Mumbai alumnus who is #2 in hierarchy at Mercedes Benz's global R&D set-up. | Mnemonicdictionary.com, a website started by IITB alumnus Amit Aggarwal helps people learn and remember words and their meaning easily by providing memory aids for each word. | The beleaguered environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, represents a new breed of politicians as the "human face" of the party ... factors that could save him from the fallout of his current "China" faux pas." | Manohar Parrikar, convener of the BJP’s newly formed governance cell, said that a code of conduct would be shortly evolved by the cell after discussions with other senior party leaders and chief ministers of party-ruled States. "The fulcrum of the code of conduct are these three principles, namely development of social, personal and financial character," said Mr. Parrikar.IIT Bombay #1 in India and #36 in AsiaIIT Bombay was ranked #1 in India in the QS Asian University Rankings but fell six places to 36 in Asia. IIT Kanpur, too, slipped three notches to be ranked at 37 against 34 last year, while IIT Delhi fell from 36 to 39 this year. "The rankings are OK. We are not obsessed with it. Our endeavour is to continue our efforts to excel in teaching and research and we are constantly trying to improve,” countered Devang Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay.IITs roped in to set 4G standardsIEEE’s working group is expected to finalise a global wireless standard for 4G technology — IEEE 802.16m — to follow 3G cellular standards, this week while the members meet in Bangalore. It will later be ratified by a higher committee from IEEE.For the first time, Indian institutes such as IIT-Bombay, IIT-Madras and IIIT-Bangalore have taken part in research for global standards and contributed to this initiative.INDIA: Severe academic shortage hits elite institutesIndia's élite institutes of technology, or IITs, and institutes of management, IIMs, which train some of the country's top engineers and managers are battling a severe shortage of academics that threatens the quality of education at the sought-after institutions.The technology institute at Kharagpur has 299 academic vacancies, followed by 222 at IIT Bombay, 194 at IIT Roorkee, 138 at IIT Madras, 78 at IIT Delhi, 69 at IIT Kanpur and 65 at IIT Guwahati, Purandeswari, Junior Education Minister said.IITians churn out a new original: HumourSitting in a lecture on condensed matter, Vaibhav Devanathan (21) thinks of a quip: Sachin Tendulkar — reducing the number of atheists in India since 1989. He quickly notes it down to update it on his website www.lol-land.in. Last year, three students of the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) got together to make a venture out of their love for humour. They set up a website of Indian humour and generated their own content.HBS appoints Prof. Nitin Nohria ('84) as DeanHarvard Business School has selected Nitin Nohria ('84) to serve as Dean ... Nohria is the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS and becomes the school’s 10th dean effective July 1. Harvard’s announcement notes that Nohria received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1984 from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, and a Ph.D. in management in 1988 from MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Nohria joined the HBS faculty in 1988 and became a business administration professor 11 years ago.Applied Materials and IITB partner in solar energyIITB and Applied Materials, Inc. will broaden the scope of their ongoing research collaboration to develop new energy-related initiatives. Applied Materials will donate three process chambers to IIT Bombay, a leader in education and research, for depositing thin films on solar cells using physical vapor deposition (PVD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies. As a symbolic representation of its commitment to clean technology and a sustainable future, Applied Materials will also donate a solar panel system to IIT Bombay. The panels will be connected to energy-efficient LEDs that will light the University's main avenue of IIT campus at Powai.
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