Month: November 2020
** Pune couple put pole sport ‘mallakhamb’ on US map, earn earn praise from PM Narendra Modi – Chinmay and Pradnya Patankar
** 6-yr-old Arham Om Talsania becomes world’s youngest computer programmer
** MIT Coach moves to Memphis – Sonia Raman
The National Basketball Association’s Memphis Grizzlies have hired Sonia Raman as an assistant coach, making her the 14th female assistant coach in the history of the NBA.
** Emory Honors Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan
Dr. K. M. Venkat Narayan was selected by Emory University to receive the 2017 Marion V. Creekmore Award for Internationalization, for building a network of collaborations with global partners–high on Emory’s agenda.
** Award for Coimbatore scientist for research on sacred groves
Coimbatore-based Kannan Warrier gets Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education’s National Award of Excellence
** DRDO develops fire-fighting system for buses
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a fire mitigation system in buses, which can detect fires in less than 30 seconds and extinguish it within a minute.
** MDRF presents award to researcher from Arizona
Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF) – Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre conferred the first MDRF-Distinguished Alumnus Award on Sampathkumar Rangaswamy at a function held on Monday.
Mr. Sampathkumar is an assistant professor at the Neurogenomics division, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Phoenix, Arizona
** Healthy Vegetable Oil – award winning innovation by IIT KGP researchers
Researchers from IIT Kharagpur have developed a novel formula for a vegetable oil powder to keep your heart healthy. The innovation, led by Prof. Hari Niwas Mishra from the Department of Agricultural and Food Engineering involved tailoring vegetable oils through the preparation of oil blends which are inherently endowed with natural antioxidants as well as well-balanced fatty acids.
** IIT Kharagpur Researchers Feature Among World’s Top 2%
Sixty-seven faculty members from IIT Kharagpur have been featured in a recent article by a famous analyst group of Stanford University published in the journal of PLOS Biology. The article has ranked top scientists inclusive from various disciplines worldwide by normalizing all publication data across fields, which is inclusive of the top 2% of scientists of their respective main subfield disciplines.
Prof. Suman Chakraborty (Fluids & Plasmas – Mechanical Engineering & Transports) is leading the list from IIT Kharagpur, followed by Prof. Debabrata Das (Energy – Biotechnology), Prof. Pratim Chattaraj (Chemical Physics – Organic Chemistry), Prof. Ajay Singh (Environmental Engineering), Prof. Ramkrishna Sen (Biotechnology), and other luminaries.