WASHINGTON (TIP): A total of seven students of Indian origin have been nominated for the prestigious Harry S Truman Scholarship this year. The scholarship finalists are Shreya Ganeshan from the University of Georgia, Samarth Gupta […]
A 17-year-old Tesoro High senior Shalin Shah was one of four teenage recipients of the Young Innovators to Watch award, a part of Mobile Apps Showdown at the CES convention, the largest technology trade show […]
PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Neereja Sundaresan, an Indian origin student has been named one of the winners of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University’s top honor for graduate students. The fellowships support their final year […]
DELHI (TIP): A student of Delhi Technological University (DTU) has received a job offer with an annual salary of Rs.1.25 crore from US Based Cab hailing company UBER Technologies. This is the second-highest offer received by […]
Through Universal Literacy, 103 reading coaches are strengthening literacy instruction at all 107 elementary schools in Districts 9, 10, 17, and 32 Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña announced that the 107 elementary schools participating in the Universal […]
Washington: An Indian-origin philanthropist, Mohini Jain, has made a grant of USD 1.5 million to University of California (UC) Davis to advance studies in Jainism. Mohini Jain, a retired teacher, gave the gift which will establish the […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): It was a double bonanza for Indian academics at #PurdueUniversity, Indiana. Indian American Karthik Kannan, a Professor at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management, was named to the 2017-18 class of Jefferson Science Fellows, […]
MISSOURI CITY (TIP): Shreya Bhadriraju, an Indian-American teen is among 60 students in the US who have been nominated for the 2017 Presidential Scholars program for exemplifying academic and artistic excellence. A student of Elkins […]
US President Donald Trump is yet to unroll the “America First” doctrine. But worryingly for India, Democrats are competing with him in imposing restrictions on low-cost foreign IT workers. Embed from Getty Images The US […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Finance minister Arun Jaitley indicated in his Budget speech on February 1 that India’s education sector would take a reform path in 2017-18. From focusing on learning assessment in schools and revamping […]
Thirteen Indian-American students, including one each from New York and New Jersey, were among 40 high school students who were declared finalists Jan. 24 in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, the oldest and most prestigious […]
Former governor of the Reserve Bank of India Raghuram Rajan has been named the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance by University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Another Indian American economist Oeindrila […]
Navigating the college process can be challenging for students and their families. As the first person in my family to go to college, I know how stressful this process can be. As Chancellor, getting every […]
NEW YORK (TIP): Raju Venugopalan, an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and a senior physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award for his remarkable […]
New Delhi, Nov 22 : Have an innovative idea for a device that could provide solution to a medical issue? Then you stand to win a grant of Rs 15 lakh! To promote cost-effective innovations […]
A record 165,918 Indians were studying in the US during academic year 2015-16, a rise of 25 per cent over the last year, making it the second leading country of origin among international students in […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The UK government has agreed to take a second look at the student visa issue as PM Theresa May met her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi. Indian students going to the UK to […]
New Delhi, Nov 7 (PTI) Raising serious concern over visa issues with the UK, India today said Britain has ceased to be a preferred destination for students wanting to pursue higher studies in British universities. […]
UCLA’s Professor of the Year, Indian American, Neil Garg has revolutionized the way students view and study organic chemistry in California. Garg has been extremely successful in getting UCLA students to love his new way […]
American chemist Peter Wolynes of Rice University has been elected a foreign fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, an honor bestowed on fewer than 100 scholars worldwide. Wolynes is the Bullard-Welch Foundation Professor of […]
This week, high schools across New York City and State are participating in College Application Week from October 17-21, a statewide initiative around college planning and application activities in an effort to increase the number […]
The IIT tag has helped many a student in India bag coveted jobs at Google, but many non-IITians too have made it to the company straight out of college on the back of their skills rather […]
Washington: A top Indian-American woman academic and president of the University of Houston was today appointed as member of the US Department of Homeland Security’s Academic Advisory Council. The appointment of Renu Khator, Chancellor of […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government has assured a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh affiliate that a raft of suggested changes– including scrapping English as a mandatory language and banning references that insult India or eminent personalities – […]
NEW JERSEY (TIP): Prachi Makkar, who the entire Indian American community in the Tri-States area knows as a versatile young woman and a superb singer of Bhajans, particularly Bhetas to Maa Vaishno Devi, was selected […]
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