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  • June 19 New York & Dallas E – Edition

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  • June 12 New York & Dallas E – Edition

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  • Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue outside Indian Embassy in DC Vandalized

    Mahatma Gandhi’s Statue outside Indian Embassy in DC Vandalized

    Bidisha Roy

    NEW YORK (TIP): Mahatma Gandhi’s statue outside the Indian Embassy in Washington DC was desecrated by some miscreants. The statue was allegedly spray painted with expletives. Soon after the incident took place, the statue was covered with protective cloth and an investigation was launched by United States Park Police.

    The Indian embassy spokesperson, in response to queries from The Indian Panorama,  June 4,stated that “Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Plaza in front of the Embassy was vandalized with graffiti/spray paint by unknown persons during the late hours of Tuesday, 2 June 2020.

    The Embassy has taken up the matter with the US Department of State for early investigation into the matter, as also with the Metropolitan Police and National Park Service. The Embassy is working with the US Department of State, Metropolitan Police and National Park Service for expeditious restoration of the statue at the park”.

    Ken Juster, US Ambassador to India, has apologized for the incident. “So sorry to see the desecration of the Gandhi statue in Wash, DC. Please accept our sincere apologies. Appalled as well by the horrific death of George Floyd & the awful violence & vandalism. We stand against prejudice & discrimination of any type. We will recover & be better,” Juster said on Twitter.

    Soon after the incident took place, the statue was covered with protective cloth

    Indian Americans are outraged for the ‘profane desecration.’ “A Molotov cocktail of profanity and hatred, cooked by the tear-filled pages of sad history across humanity existence in every culture and eco-system, was splashed across Mahatma Gandhi’s statue during the Tsunami of George Floyd’s protest” said New York based eminent attorney Ravi Batra.

     “That the root of non-violent civil protest was desecrated speaks not of any disrespect, as Mahatma Gandhi is free of such temporal stain as the sun is free of clouds, but of the intertwined pain of age-old racism that humanity sadly enjoys, horrible economic destruction from the Wuhan Virus, and criminals who remain society’s recurring illness. Add to that the pain from the fact that the American Dream is beyond the reach of many. So, the George Floyd protests, necessary for proper societal recalibration, have included criminality and elements of the 1789 French Revolution and storming the Bastille to overthrow a feudalist society. It is this last fact, not the restoration of the Gandhi statue – a given – that is concerning. Having been involved with Yogesh Gandhi to get the Gandhi statue erected in Union Square decades ago, I’m certain Mahatma Gandhi remains unruffled by the profane desecration, and only wishes to comfort hearts that are burning with such hatred so as to save them from being in jail”, he added.

    One of the few statues of a foreign leader in Washington DC, the statue of Mahatma Gandhi was dedicated by the then Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, in the presence of the then US president Bill Clinton on September 16, 2000, during his state visit to the US.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  • Indian American Vivek Lall Named Chief of General Atomics Global Corporation

    Indian American Vivek Lall Named Chief of General Atomics Global Corporation

    SAN DIEGO (TIP): Dr. Vivek Lall, probably the most known face in the Indian aerospace and defense industry and the most prominent Indian-American who played key roles in some major Indo-US defense deals between India and the US, will be the chief of General Atomics Global Corporation, based in California.

    A formal statement from General Atomics said, “ with Dr Lall’s expertise, GA Global will expand its global footprint for managing sales, service, and international industrial collaboration in strategically important countries like Japan, Australia, the UAE, and others.”

    In his previous stint with the US major as chief executive of strategic development from Vivek Lall was instrumental in the drive to first market and then advance on the sales plan for missile-capable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to Indian armed forces. It may be recalled that GA ASI in June 2017 had informed that the US government had approved a $2 billion sale of 22 MQ-9B SeaGuardian UAVs to India for the Indian Navy.

    Dr. Vivek Lall has been the major force in concluding major Indian defense procurements including 24 MH-60R Multi-Role Helicopters from Lockheed Martin, 10 C17s worth $4 billion, P-8I Anti-submarine warfare aircrafts (eight and then four) worth $3 billion, 28 Apache helicopters and 15 Chinooks worth $5 billion, and 22 Harpoon missiles worth $200 million. An asset to both India and USA, Vivek has been influential in shaping US’s defenses exports and fulfilling India’s defiance needs. He was appointed to the US Federal Aviation Advisory Committee in 2018, where he represents the viewpoints of defenses technology organizations in the NextGen Advisory Committee of the Department of Transportation. The Aviation Advisory Committee provides information, advice, and recommendations to the Secretary of Transportation on ensuring the competitiveness of the U.S. aviation industry and its capability to address the evolving transportation needs, challenges, and opportunities of the global economy.

    Dr. Lall has been also recognized as one of the world’s top scientists of the twentieth century by Cambridge. He was also the President of the Mathematical Association of America. He was also affiliated with the United Nations in New York to advise on Broadband and Cyber Security issues for challenges within the global community and provide services that will help address them. In India he was appointed the Chairman of the Indo-US Strategic Dialogue by the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce in August 2011, was Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation and  also served as Chairman of the Defense Committee of The Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India(ASSOCHAM).

     

     

     

  • Indian American CEO of Google Sundar Pichai backs racial equality

    Indian American CEO of Google Sundar Pichai backs racial equality

    Google and YouTube put a black ribbon on their home page in the US

    NEW YORK (TIP): Google stands in support of racial equality, the tech giant’s Indian-American CEO Sunder Pichai has said, expressing solidarity with the African-American community in the US in wake of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd.

    Google and YouTube on Sunday put a black ribbon on their home page in the US, showing solidarity for protests against the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in police custody.

    “We stand in support of racial equality, and all those who search for it,” the message read on the Google home page.

    The same message was also placed on the US home page of Google-owned YouTube and Alphabet.

    “For those feeling grief, anger, sadness & fear, you are not alone,” Pichai said, sharing a screenshot of the Google search home page which said “we stand in support of racial equality, and all those who search for it,” read the tech-giant’s tweet.

  • Indian-origin doctor Rajesh Gupta on COVID-19 frontline found dead in UK hotel

    Indian-origin doctor Rajesh Gupta on COVID-19 frontline found dead in UK hotel

    LONDON (TIP): An Indian-origin doctor working on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic at a UK hospital was found dead in the hotel he was staying in to isolate away from his family during the lockdown.

    Dr Rajesh Gupta, a consultant anesthetist at the National Health Service (NHS)-run Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, south-east England, was found dead earlier last week  and the cause of his death is yet to be established.

    “We are very sorry to pass on the sad news that our Frimley Health colleague Dr Rajesh Gupta has passed away,” Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust said in a statement on Friday.

    “Rajesh, who worked as a consultant at Wexham Park Hospital, was found on Monday afternoon in the hotel where he had been staying to protect his family while he worked with us during the coronavirus pandemic. At this stage the cause of his death is not known,” the NHS Trust said.

    Gupta was described as a “popular and well-known figure” by the Trust, which said that colleagues saw him as an “outstanding clinician with a passion for pain medicine”.

    He had recently been appointed to an important post at Wexham Park Hospital after working for a period as a locum consultant at Frimley Park.

    “They (colleagues) also say he was a gifted poet, painter, photographer and cook who was known for his enthusiasm, good nature and kindness. He wrote several books and contributed to a number of publications. He will be greatly missed,” the Trust said.

    Gupta, who studied in Jammu before moving to the UK, is survived by his wife and a young son.

    The Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust said that it is supporting his closest colleagues as the news of the sudden death has come as an “enormous shock” at his former workplace.

    (Source: PTI)

  • Indian American Rahul Dubey Hailed as ‘Hero’ after Sheltering Protesters in DC

    Indian American Rahul Dubey Hailed as ‘Hero’ after Sheltering Protesters in DC

    WASHINGTON (TIP): Indian American Rahul Dubey emerged as an overnight hero in the US after he opened doors to people, who were protesting against George Floyd death, after a tear gas attack by police in Washington D.C on June 1 night.

    According to a report by The New York Times, Dubey, who works in health care, opened the door as soon as he heard the flash bang and the thudding of shields and called for people to come in. A “tsunami” of demonstrators came barreling through his front door seeking shelter, he said, and protesters began scattering to all three floors of his home.

    Dubey told CNN affiliate WJLA that he was on his stoop and had let some of the protesters charge their phones inside and use his bathroom before police moved in. “There was a big bang and there was spray that my eyes started burning, screaming like I’ve never heard before, and I’ve described it as a ‘human tsunami’ is the best I could see for about a quarter of a block coming down the street,” he told WJLA.

    He said he was yelling “get in, get into the house” for about 10 minutes. Dubey told WJLA that about 70 protesters got inside and it was “pandemonium and mayhem” for about an hour and a half while they tried to settle in and help people who’d been pepper sprayed. The protesters left Dubey’s home when the district’s new curfew ended at 6 am.

    The incident has turned Dubey into a local hero with a massive outpouring of praise on social media. He, however, told The New York Times, he does not think what he did was anything special. “If it is, we have a ton of work to do in this country”, he said.

     

     

  • Indian American Author Lilly Irani Wins Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association

    Indian American Author Lilly Irani Wins Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association

    SAN DIEGO (TIP): Lilly Irani, Associate Professor, UC San Diego has been honored with Outstanding Book Award by International Communication Association for her book Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India.

    Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication & Science Studies at University of California, San Diego. She also serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, the program in Critical Gender Studies, and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of AI Now (NYU). Her research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work and the counter-practices they generate, as both an ethnographer, a designer, and a former technology worker. She is a co-founder and maintainer of digital labor activism tool Turkopticon. Her work has appeared at ACM SIGCHI, New Media & Society, Science, Technology & Human Values, South Atlantic Quarterly, and other venues. She has a Ph.D. in Informatics from University of California, Irvine.

    Her book is described as “A richly detailed, multi-year ethnography of the ways in which social entrepreneurship, design, and innovation work underscore national and global chains of value and power. The book marshals history and political economy around stories of everyday people who invested in impossible dreams that if they are more creative, they will achieve upward social mobility. Instead, innovation and human-centered design projects most benefited those already with social and economic capital. Precarious Indian citizens remained so despite their passionate aspirations. Deconstructing these rationalities and identities of entrepreneurialism in the context of development and governance in India, the book charts a new theoretical frame for understanding the entrepreneur as a figure of exploitation and a tool of nation-building. Dr. Irani asks critically “Who modernizes whom, and towards what horizon?” As such, the book de-Westernizes the figure of entrepreneur as a hero of teleological progress.”

  • Indian Origin Film Director Krishnendu Majumdar Named Chair of BAFTA

    Indian Origin Film Director Krishnendu Majumdar Named Chair of BAFTA

    LONDON (TIP): The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) appointed Krishnendu Majumdar as its new Chair. In doing so, Majumdar becomes the first person of color to be appointed to the role in BAFTA’s 73-year history and the youngest chair in 35 years.

    Majumdar has been Deputy Chair for one year and his tenure as Chair will run for the next three years – the newly extended term for all future BAFTA chairs.

    Majumdar is an EMMY-winning and BAFTA-nominated television producer and director. He has been closely involved with BAFTA for 14 years, having been the Chair of the Learning and New Talent Committee (2006-2010), the Chair of the Television Committee (2015-2019) and a member of the Board of Trustees for nine years.

    Majumdar has actively supported BAFTA’s year-round program of learning and new talent initiatives, including BAFTA Breakthrough and BAFTA Elevate. Majumdar is also chairing BAFTA’s Awards Review, convened in response to the lack of diversity in this year’s Film Awards nominations. He has been a long-time supporter of greater diversity on and off screen throughout his career and has also been on the Board of Directors UK and the PACT Council.

    Krishnendu Majumdar said: “It is a tremendous honor to be elected Chair of BAFTA and I’m lucky to be following Pippa Harris’ outstanding tenure and I want to pay tribute to the resilient and dynamic leadership that Pippa has shown. This year has been a difficult and turbulent time for many in our industry, working with Pippa, BAFTA’s talented and committed staff and membership, I want BAFTA to be at the heart of rebuilding the industry post-Covid. It is vital to ensure that we support people of all backgrounds, races and genders. Diversity and inclusion are crucial for the lifeblood of BAFTA, and we will continue to be a leader for real change across our industry.

    Krishnendu Majumdar co-founded the independent production company Me + You Productions in 2012, alongside Richard Yee. Since then, Majumdar has produced the critically acclaimed Dominic Savage drama series I Am for Channel 4 and the International Emmy-winning comedy, Hoff The Record. He has executive produced two series of the comedy drama Sick Of It, as well as the documentary series The Moaning of Life. Majumdar was also a showrunner on the BAFTA-nominated global hit franchise, An Idiot Abroad.

    Before co-founding Me + You, Majumdar worked as a freelance producer and director. His previous credits include BAFTA-nominated polemical film Who You Callin’ A Nigger? for Channel 4 and the major political film Michael Howard: No More Mr Nasty for BBC Two.

    Majumdar entered the industry by being the first and only person ever to be trained on both the prestigious ITN News Trainee and BBC Production Trainee schemes working across both ITN and the BBC at the outset of his career.

    He was born in South Wales to Bengali parents who arrived in the UK from India in the 1960s. His father was a GP who worked for the NHS for over 40 years.

     

     

  • Indian American Led Researchers Develop Experimental Rapid COVID-19 Test

    Indian American Led Researchers Develop Experimental Rapid COVID-19 Test

    NEW YORK (TIP): Scientists from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) developed an experimental diagnostic test for COVID-19 that can visually detect the presence of the virus in 10 minutes. It uses a simple assay containing plasmonic gold nanoparticles to detect a color change when the virus is present. The test does not require the use of any advanced laboratory techniques, such as those commonly used to amplify DNA, for analysis. The authors published their work last week in the American Chemical Society’s nanotechnology journal ACS Nano.

    “Based on our preliminary results, we believe this promising new test may detect RNA material from the virus as early as the first day of infection. Additional studies are needed, however, to confirm whether this is indeed the case,” said study leader Dipanjan Pan, Ph.D. Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and Pediatrics at the UMSOM.

    “The accuracy of any COVID-19 test is based on being able to reliably detect any virus. This means it does not give a false negative result if the virus actually is present, nor a false positive result if the virus is not present,” said Dr. Pan. “Many of the diagnostic tests currently on the market cannot detect the virus until several days after infection. For this reason, they have a significant rate of false negative results.”

    Dr. Pan created a company called VitruVian Bio to develop the test for commercial application. He plans to have a pre-submission meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the next month to discuss requirements for getting an emergency use authorization for the test. New FDA policy allows for the marketing of COVID-19 tests without requiring them to go through the usual approval or clearance process. These tests do, however, need to meet certain validation testing requirements to ensure that they provide reliable results.

     

  • Indian American SAP Vet Abdul Razack Hired by Google Cloud for New Tech Solutions Role

    Indian American SAP Vet Abdul Razack Hired by Google Cloud for New Tech Solutions Role

    NEW YORK (TIP): Former SAP chief product officer Abdul Razack has been hired by Google Cloud for a senior executive role with its solutions engineering team. He is named vice president of technology solutions, a newly created position.

    Razack is a technology leader known for his strategic vision and engineering expertise, with more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology. In his new role, Razack will be responsible for Google Cloud’s solution strategy across its seven solution pillars, from infrastructure, to application modernization, to data analytics and cloud artificial intelligence (AI). He also will drive the application of the solutions among sellers and customer engineers helping customers digitally transform.

    “My goal is to help Google Cloud customers unlock significant value from our solutions, bringing resiliency and scale to businesses in these uncertain times, and also helping them build a technology foundation for their future,” Razack said in a statement. “I’m truly excited about the opportunity to leverage Google’s technology to develop open, flexible solutions that serve our customers’ most critical needs.”

    A 15-year SAP veteran, Razack served as chief product officer at SAP since March 2019, leading its cloud technology vision and efforts to build enterprise resource planning products.

     

     

     

     

  • June 5 New York & Dallas E – Edition

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  • Govt plans for third phase of ‘Vande Bharat mission’ as 300,000 Indians want to return

    Govt plans for third phase of ‘Vande Bharat mission’ as 300,000 Indians want to return

    A total of 3,08,200 persons have registered with Indian missions abroad for repatriation on compelling grounds

    NEW DELHI / NEW YORK (TIP): The government is planning for phase three of the ‘Vande Bharat Mission’ as over three hundred thousand stranded Indians have registered themselves with Indian missions abroad for evacuation on compelling grounds.

    The first phase was a modest 64 flights and a couple of sorties by naval ships that brought back over 16,000 Indians. The ongoing second phase that will last till June 16, plans to bring back another one lakh Indians.

    So far in phase two, over 45,000 Indians have returned, including about 8,000 migrant workers, 7,656 students and over 5,000 professionals. About 5,000 have returned through land border immigration checkpoints from Nepal and Bangladesh.

    “A total of 3,08,200 persons have registered with our missions abroad for repatriation to India on compelling grounds,” said government sources. Unless international flights do not resume, the third phase will mean a logistical exercise that will dwarf phase two.

    In the current phase, 429 Air India flights from 60 countries will land in India. Besides, the Indian Navy will make four sorties to bring back returnees from Iran, Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

    The government is also assisting in the return of stranded Indians from remote locations in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and parts of Europe. This is being done by taking advantage of foreign carriers flying to India primarily for the evacuation of their nationals.

    Recently, about 300 stranded Indians from Peru, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Portugal and Netherlands were brought in. We will be exploring more such options, said government sources.

    Private airlines have now been included and chartered flights have also begun to operate.

    “The numbers are expected to go up in the coming days with the permission for chartered flights and more efficient use of quarantine capacity,” said the sources.

    The Indian Panorama spoke with some of those returning to India about the air fare, the quarantine on arrival in India, and some other issues. Most passengers complained of excessive fares. On condition of anonymity, a lady said: “I feel cheated by the government of India. I am already passing through a difficult financial situation, having to stay back in the US and spending to support myself and two kids, and then I am asked to pay a much higher price for air tickets than the normal rates I know of. Again, government of India wants all those going from here to India to pay for their stay in the hotels government has approved for quarantine. And the payment for 14 is to be paid upfront. Government of India is not supporting us financially in any way. We are paying for everything.”

    Mr. R.P. Sharma (name changed) said the only favor government of India has done is they have arranged the flights and permitted us to be back. He said going by the pronouncements of government of India, it appeared the government was doing a great favor to those stranded abroad. He added, however, he was happy to be getting back.

    Mr. Shingara Singh (name changed) from New York said he has been trying to get a ticket but was told by Air India that he will be informed when his turn comes. Asked when he should expect his turn, the officer expressed his ignorance.

  • Indian American Nayan Parikh named a member of de Blasio’s real estate reopening council

    Indian American Nayan Parikh named a member of de Blasio’s real estate reopening council

    NEW YORK (TIP): Indian American Nayan Parikh , owner of Ashnu International, Inc. an award winning, premier/MWBE Construction and Management provider to host of Federal, State and City Agencies, Corporations and other industries, is one of the 30 New Yorkers named on Mayor de Blasio’s real estate reopening council. The panel will guide the industry’s economic reboot.

    Nayan Parikh has, over the past fifteen years, continued hard to establish his name within the corridors of Government Agencies and has continued to build his reputation to his expertise in bringing excellent performance to the projects undertaken by his company. He has been the champion in leading many professional and community organizations and continues to give back to the society in many different ways. He has brought new ideas to fruition, both for profit and non-profit organizations. After graduation from college, Nayan began his career as a Civil Engineer in India, before migrating to the USA. In his new homeland, he began his career as an estimator in a small construction company, before quickly finding his own strength to become the founder and Managing Director of Ashnu International, Inc.

    Parikh’s vision, entrepreneurial aptitude, civil engineering background and broad range of expertise have made AIC a name to be envied within the construction industry. His company has credit to many well-known projects including Sandy Repair work at Coney Island, Rockaway Beach, multiple schools renovation for New York City School Construction Authority and Signal Modification at 71st Continental Ave with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

    Serving the community comes naturally to Parikh. From his first days of being a new immigrant to this country till now, he has been involved and giving his time, knowledge and wisdom to non-profit organizations, both within the community and professional. Although he is a part of many organizations and affiliations, he takes pride in each and every one and maintains an active leadership role in these organizations. Currently he is the president of the NAMC NY Tri-State Chapter, during his term he would like to bring more project procurement to his local chapter members. From humble beginnings and a minority himself, he understands the struggle to make to make the right connections or get that big break. Parikh isn’t afraid to reach out to make the necessary connection, which is one of his many strengths. Because of this, his network of associations varies in different influencers, who hold his opinion in high regards and has created a foray into creating an outreach program for his chapter members.

     

  • Indian American Rutgers Student Tanvi Banota Named 2020 Goldwater Scholar

    Indian American Rutgers Student Tanvi Banota Named 2020 Goldwater Scholar

    NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ (TIP): Tanvi Banota, a rising junior majoring in cell biology and neuroscience at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, has been named a recipient of the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship for her academic excellence.

    Considered the premier undergraduate award of its type in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences and engineering, the Goldwater Scholarship, which honors the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, is designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in these fields. The scholarship awards up to $7,500 to help cover costs associated with tuition, mandatory fees, books, and room and board.

    Banota was chosen from a pool of more than 5,000 distinguished students submitted by 461 academic institutions for the 2020-21 academic year.

    Banota has worked in the lab of Debra Laskin in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology since she was in high school (thanks to Liberty Science Center’s Partners in Science program). There, her research focuses on the mechanisms of inflammation as a response to pulmonary injuries. She has worked in the lab and done research around this topic since 2017 and credits the continuity of that research and the many hours of experience she’s gained in the lab as part of what earned her a Goldwater Scholarship.

     

     

     

     

  • Indian American Senate Candidate Announces Campaign to Label Drugs with Country of Origin

    Indian American Senate Candidate Announces Campaign to Label Drugs with Country of Origin

    TRENTON, NJ (TIP): Republican Senate candidate Rik Mehta, a pharmacist and former FDA consumer safety officer from New Jersey, announced a plan to force drug manufacturers to label their products’ country of origin. Mehta is seeking to replace failed presidential candidate Cory Booker as Senator from New Jersey.

    “Americans have a right to know where their medicine comes from especially when nearly all other products are labeled with the country it was made in,” Mehta, a pharmacist, said. “I can look at products on my body, like my shirt and shoes and know exactly where it was made, but the same doesn’t hold true for things that go in our body, like our prescription drugs. That makes no sense.”

    Under current Food and Drug Administration regulations, the last place a given drug was manufactured is considered its place of origin.

    “These bizarre and conflicting laws and regulations that govern how to label products with their country of origin has allowed companies to profit from foreign drug manufacturing while hiding their supply chain from the American people for too long,” said Mehta. “American doctors and pharmacists should be able to inform patients on not only what ingredients are in their drugs, but where those ingredients were made.”

    In the public sector, Rik worked at the United States Food and Drug Administration as a Consumer Safety Officer to advance policies to expedite and increase access to quality, affordable drugs and health care. He also enforced against pharmaceutical companies taking millions of illegal prescription opioids off the market.

  • Indian American IBM Scientist Rajiv Joshi Wins Inventor of the Year Award

    Indian American IBM Scientist Rajiv Joshi Wins Inventor of the Year Award

    NEW YORK (TIP): Indian-American scientist Rajiv Joshi has bagged the prestigious Inventor of the Year award in recognition of his pioneering work in advancing the electronic industry and improving artificial intelligence capabilities. Dr Joshi has more than 250 patented inventions in the US and works at the IBM Thomson Watson Research Center in New York.

    He was presented with the prestigious annual award by the New York Intellectual Property Law Association earlier this month during a virtual awards ceremony.

    Dr. Joshi received his B.Tech from I.I.T (Bombay, India) and his MS from M.I.T, is a prolific inventor with more than 250 US and more than 350 international patents. He is an IEEE Fellow and received the Industrial Pioneer Award from the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 2013. He is a key technical lead at IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center, focusing on the development of integrated circuits and memory chips.

    Holding the IBM title of Master Inventor since 1997, Joshi has more than 200 publications including conferences and journals, and he has received scores of other accolades and awards including receiving the IBM’s Corporate Patent Portfolio Award on three separate occasions. Among several honors, Joshi was inducted into the New Jersey Inventor Hall of Fame in 2014, received IEEE CAS Society’s Industrial Pioneer Award, and the IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for Emerging Technologies in 2018.

    Joshi’s successful tenure at IBM Research has been highlighted by breakthrough inventions that are prevalent to our everyday lives such as servers, medical devices, handheld devices, and wearable technology. His inventions include fundamental interconnect process technology that helped in the achievement of Moore’s scaling, which aides with computational performance and for memory bandwidth issues, which are much needed for AI.

  • Indian American Princeton Student Wins Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal

    Indian American Princeton Student Wins Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal

    PRINCETON, NJ (TIP): Princeton senior Preeti Iyer has been honored for her service to the Class of 2020 and to the University. Iyer received the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal, which recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton.

    Iyer, of Alpharetta, Georgia, is a computer science concentrator and a member of Forbes College. She has been involved in a wide range of activities across the University, ranging from advocacy to athletics and the arts.

    She led the Princeton Menstrual Products Task Force for three years, successfully launching a University program to provide free menstrual products in Princeton restrooms, and has assisted over a dozen other universities in launching similar initiatives. She is also the founder and director of “Period Palooza: A Menstrual Equity and Innovation Conference,” and previously served as a U-Councilor on the Undergraduate Student Government.

    Iyer co-founded Representable.org along with four other Princeton students. The crowdsourced redistricting tool helps combat gerrymandering and improves redistricting efforts across the county.

    A member of the campus arts community, she performed with DiSiac Dance Company and Princeton Bhangra. During her first two years, she also competed as a member of Princeton Women’s Rugby Team.

    In addition, Iyer has held data science internships at Facebook, Tesla, and the Associate of American Medical Colleges.

  • Indian Army officer Major Suman Gawani Wins UN Military Gender Award

    Indian Army officer Major Suman Gawani Wins UN Military Gender Award

    NEW YORK (TIP): For the first time, the UN Military Gender Advocate award has been awarded to two UN peacekeepers: Major Suman Gawani, of the Indian Army and Commander Carla Monteiro de Castro Araujo, a Brazilian Naval officer.

    The award, created in 2016, recognizes the dedication and effort of individual military peacekeepers in promoting the UN principles on Women, Peace and Security in peace operations. Women peacekeepers are nominated by the heads and force commanders of peace operations.

    Major Gawani – the first Indian peacekeeper to win the award – is a Military Observer, formerly deployed to the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), where she mentored over 230 UN Military Observers on conflict-related sexual violence, and ensured the presence of women military observers in each of the Mission’s team sites. She also trained South Sudanese government forces, and helped them to launch their action plan on conflict-related sexual violence.

    Expressing happiness at seeing her work recognized, Major Gawani noted that, “whatever our function, position or rank, it is our duty as peacekeepers to integrate an all-genders perspective into our daily work and own it, in our interactions with colleagues as well as with communities”.

    Commending the two women peacekeepers, UN chief António Guterres described them as powerful role models: “Through their work, they have brought new perspectives and have helped to build trust and confidence among the communities we serve”, he said. “Through their commitment and innovative approaches, they embrace a standard of excellence that is an inspiration to all blue helmets everywhere. As we confront today’s challenges, their work has never been more important or relevant.”

     

     

  • Indian American Led Team Develops Low-Cost Ventilator

    Indian American Led Team Develops Low-Cost Ventilator

    ATLANTA, GA (TIP): An Indian American led team has developed a low-cost, portable ventilator meant to help doctors around the world treat COVID-19 patients. Devesh Ranjan, a professor and associate chair in the prestigious Georgia Tech’s George W Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and his research team at the Georgia Institute of Technology has created a prototype for a low-cost, portable emergency ventilator that uses electronic sensors and computer control to manage key clinical parameters such as respiration rate, tidal volume (the amount of air moved into and out of the lungs during each cycle), inspiration and expiration ratio, and pressure on the lungs.

    The Open-AirVentGT was designed to address acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a common complication for COVID-19 patients which causes their lungs to stiffen, requiring their breathing to be assisted by ventilators. Unlike many other emergency ventilators, the new Georgia Tech device endeavors to make breathing more natural by allowing patients to trigger their own breaths instead of relying on a respiration rate pre-set in the device.

    The ventilator works by pneumatically compressing a BVM (Bag Valve Mask) assembly of the kind used in hospitals and carried in ambulances as resuscitation devices. The ventilator is envisioned for use outside the United States in countries that do not have significant medical infrastructure in place, and is designed to be produced for around $300.

    A projected shortage of ventilators prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic has led to development of makeshift ventilators, many of them based on differing mechanical strategies to compress BVM devices. Ranjan and his research team evaluated what others had done and sought input on clinician needs from critical care specialists at two Atlanta hospitals during the design of the Open-AirVentGT.

     

     

  • Indian American Professor Brinda Sarathy Receives ACLS Fellowship

    Indian American Professor Brinda Sarathy Receives ACLS Fellowship

    CLAREMONT, CA  (TIP): Pitzer College Professor of Environmental Analysis and the Director of the Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California Sustainability at Pitzer College Brinda Sarathy has received The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship for her project on Laid to Waste: The Stringfellow Acid Pits and Making of Place in Southern California.

     This project examines the history of the first Superfund site in California, the Stringfellow Acid Pits, to better understand how places are produced in the context of invisible flows: of toxics, of groundwater, and less told stories of social mobilization. Drawing on archival material and interviews with community activists and government officials, this research explores how hazardous wastes are understood, rationalized, and managed by scientific experts to justify dumping; why policy makers overlooked groundwater contamination in spite of prevailing scientific knowledge; and how to make sense of the often heterogeneous and contradictory nature of local resistance to, and mobilization against, contamination by industrial waste. Significantly, this work considers how institutions of expertise often exclude the experiences of those most exposed to harm and, despite deep and persistent uncertainties, authority figures have been called on to minimize concerns about hazardous substances, thus facilitating industrial, military, and economic expansion.

    The ACLS Fellowship Program awards fellowships to individual scholars working in the humanities and related social sciences.

  • May 29 New York & Dallas E – Edition

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  • Indian American Vrinda Marwah Earns Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

    Indian American Vrinda Marwah Earns Prestigious Mellon/ACLS Fellowships

    AUSTIN, TX (TIP): Vrinda Marwa, a Doctoral Candidate of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin is among the winners of the 2020 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Completion Fellowships. The prestigious fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing and are awarded to 65 students each year.

    Vrinda Marwah is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her primary research interests are in reproductive health and women’s labor in contemporary India.

    Vrinda’s Master’s thesis focused on hijras in India, and examined debates around sexual subjectivity, identity, and terminology in the context of HIV/AIDS, queer mobilization and legal reform.  She received her MSc in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics, and her BA in Political Science from the University of Delhi.

    Vrinda has worked in Delhi at the research, capacity building, and policy advocacy levels with feminist groups Sama and CREA.

    Vrinda got the fellowship for her project ‘Reproducing the State: Women Community Health Volunteers in North India.’

    Working in the heart of India’s reproductive health care system, this project explores how the contemporary state constitutes citizenship through the modality of care. It examines the working lives of women community health workers, called ASHAs, who are “volunteers” paid to motivate poor women to use public health services. ASHAs reveal the productive power of an understudied and intensely gendered role in the state: the frontline bureaucrat. Because of the deeply intimate knowledge ASHAs have of their clients, and the networks they build among public and private health care providers, they become highly sought-after actors in service delivery. Through 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork, this project uncovers how the sociality of these women exceeds, and reconstitutes, the policy they are meant to implement.

     

     

  • Indian Origin Nobel Laurate Venki Ramakrishnan Elected to American Philosophical Society

    Indian Origin Nobel Laurate Venki Ramakrishnan Elected to American Philosophical Society

    NEW YORK (TIP): Venkatraman ‘Venki’ Ramakrishnan, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist of Indian origin,is among 34 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s oldest scholarly organization. Ramakrishnan has been inducted into APS’ biological sciences class.

    Candidates for APS membership are nominated by existing members and elected for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields. Election to the American Philosophical Society honors extraordinary accomplishments in all fields. The APS is unusual among learned societies because its Membership is comprised of top scholars from a wide variety of academic disciplines.

    Venki Ramakrishnan is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and President of The Royal Society, London. In 2009, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas A. Steitz and Ada Yonath, “for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome”

     

  • Indian American Physician Sudheer S Chauhan Succumbs to Deadly Corona Virus

    Indian American Physician Sudheer S Chauhan Succumbs to Deadly Corona Virus

    NEW YORK (TIP): Dr. Sudheer S Chauhan, a kindhearted physician of Indian Origin, who had dedicated his life at the service of his thousands of patients in the New York region, succumbed to the deadly corona virus on May 19th.

    Dr. Chuhan, an Internal Medicine specialist in South Richmond Hill, New York, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 and battling for his life for the past few weeks, died of complications from the illness.

    “Our Father, Dr. Sudheer Singh Chauhan, Internal Medicine Physician and Associate Program Director IM Residency Program at Jamaica Hospital, New York passed away on May 19 after battling with COVID for two months. We will miss this unique, kind, gentle and caring spirit. May his soul rest in peace,” wrote his daughter, Sneh Chuhan on COVID-19 Physicians Memorial.

    Dr. Chauhan, who had attended and graduated from medical school in 1972, has had nearly half a century of diverse experience, especially in Internal Medicine. Dr. Chauhan received his graduate medical education from GSUM Medical College, University of Kanpur, India in 1972. He was chief resident in Internal Medicine at Jamaica Hospital and graduated in 1997. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He also received MRCP and FRCP from Royal College of Physicians and FACP from American College of Physicians.

    Dr. Chauhan joined the Department of Medicine at Jamaica Hospital upon graduation in 1997 and is currently working as a faculty supervisor and attending physician. He is also the Associate Program Director in Internal Medicine Residency Program for the hospital.

    Dr. Priya Khanna, 43, another Indian American nephrologist died in a New Jersey Hospital last month. The deadly virus also took the life of her father Satyendra Khanna (78), a general surgeon, after being in a critical condition in the intensive care unit in the same hospital for several days.