Tezpur university signs mou
Queen’s University Belfast in UK and Ireland as well as a member of the prestigious Russell Group of UK research intensive universities, has signed a MoU with Tezpur University in Assam.
Through the MoU, the universities will explore mutually beneficial opportunities over the next five-year years.
The collaboration will also offer opportunities for student and staff exchange for the purposes of study, research and teaching. It will also enable scholars from Tezpur University to commence PhD study at Queen’s in September 2019.
Primarily, the scope of collaboration will be in research, aligning with the strengths of both the institutions. Initially, identified research areas of interest are primarily within the engineering field.
HIMALAYAN SUMMIT At IIT Roorkee
The Design Innovation Center (DIC), IIT Roorkee organised a Himalayan Summit on the Design Innovation Challenges in the Himalayan region. Various NGOs, scientists, academicians working in the Himalayan region shared their work. They highlighted various challenges being faced by them. This summit provided opportunities to different DICs to select their problems and identify potential field collaborators.
The center under the ‘National Initiative for Design Innovation scheme was set up in multi-dimensional space with the long sighted vision, primarily to address the problems of the Himalayan region which makes most of the northern part of our country and offers a vast potential for various activities.
Workshop on Luxury Industry
The Luxury Connect Business School, Gurugram organised a workshop on — Opportunities in Luxury Industry — for academicians across Delhi-NCR at its boutique campus.
The aim of the workshop to update them about what luxury is and what future does it beholds in India. Abhay Gupta, Founder-CEO of Luxury Connect Business School addressed the gathering about the benefits and challenges faced in the luxury industry and how we can collaborate to curb the same.
“Over the last few years, with the economy doing well and more disposable income, there has been a change in the consumption pattern of the Indians. The spurt in affluence, and the emergence of a new breed of young population has led to a rapid growth of the luxury sector. One of the challenges that India faces in the luxury industry is dearth of skilled and talented persons who understands the understand the luxury product and services, marketing, financial and operational aspects.”
New Office for IIT-M
The new premises of Center for Computational Brain Research (CCBR), Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M), was inaugurated at Bhupat and Jyothi Mehta School of Biosciences on campus. This dedicated workspace will house researchers and staff of the CCBR.
Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-founder of Infosys and a distinguished alumnus of IIT-M, inaugurated the new premises in the presence of Professor K Vijay Raghavan, Principal Scientific Advisor, Professor Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Director, IIT-M, Professor Partha Mitra, visiting faculty member, IIT-M and Professor Mahabala distinguished chair, CCBR, IIT-M along with researchers and faculty of IIT-M.
Convocation at SNU
The Shiv Nadar University (SNU) celebrated its fifth convocation ceremony at its Greater Noida campus. The university chancellor, Shiv Nadar conferred honorary doctorates on four distinguished individuals — Dr Ashok Seth, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, world-renowned cardiologist and the chairman of Fortis Escorts Heart Institute; Lord Charles Powell, an eminent British diplomat, politician and businessman; Dr Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan, distinguished Indian space scientist and former head of ISRO; and Mike Lawrie, Global Technology Leader & President, CEO and Chairman, DXC Technology, in recognition of their outstanding achievements.