Global Scholarship Programme
Cargill in partnership with Institute of International Education is continuing the Global Scholars Program to build a foundation for future potential leaders, getting new talent ready to take on exciting opportunities and challenges.
The programme is a distinctive scholarship opportunity that not only provides financial support, but offers leadership development opportunities through seminars, networking events, and a one-on-one mentoring programme.
These enrichment activities have been designed to help foster and enhance leadership potential and critical thinking skills in the students, and equip them with the tools necessary for becoming future global leaders and decisions makers.
Selected students will receive scholarship funds of up to $2,500 per year for up to two years and will be invited to take part in a series of leadership and enrichment activities designed to enhance their critical thinking skills.
new niit training centre
NIIT limited recently unveiled its flagship training centre at Connaught Place, New Delhi. The high-tech, digital and completely paperless centre will offer advanced training programmes in executive management, banking, digital marketing, big data, IT and other multiple sectors.
These programmes will be backed by revolutionary Cloud technology. The smart and vibrant centre is the first step in a series of changes that the company will now witness owing to business transformation programme.
For the first time ever, young professionals and students will have the flexibility to choose options from a range of multiple new-age career programmes, aligned to the evolving needs of the knowledge economy.
The programmes would be offered on pioneering NIIT Cloud CampusTM empowering student to learn on his own terms, at his own pace, wherever and whenever he wants it.
public lecture organised by ISF
Infosys Science Foundation (ISF) in association with Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-D) recently organised a lecture on on Nature’s Niche in Multi-Criterion Design and Optimization.
Prof Kalyanmoy Deb, Koenig Endowed Chair Professor, department of electrical & computer engineering, Professor of computer science & engineering, Professor of mechanical engineering, Michigan State University, USA were present at the event.
The session was attended by academicians and students from IIIT-D and neighbouring colleges.
This lecture is part of the Infosys Science Foundation lectures, which has been developed with an aim to popularise science and research in the country. Prof Deb, who was the winner of Infosys Prize 2011 for engineering and computer sciences, is the fifth speaker in the current years’ series of public talks organised by the foundation.
The session focussed on new and emerging computerised multi-criterion optimisation methodologies used to solve tasks in design, manufacturing, and operation management. Various case studies from sciences, engineering and commerce were presented as part of the lecture to showcase the practical applications of these methodologies.