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In an attempt to clear the factual inaccuracies of media reports on the alleged assault of a photojournalist by an IITM professor, the T5E team met the Director, Dr. Bhaskar Ramamurthi, and Dean of Students, Prof. L S Ganesh, this afternoon. Statements were also taken from student council members present during the incident.
On the 50th anniversary of IIT Madras, former director, Prof. Ananth and the Rector of RWTH Aachen, Prof. Schmachtenberg came up with the idea to collaborate on water-related issues. That was the beginning of the Indo-German Centre for Sustainability (IGCS), an initiative to promote interdisciplinary research and bilateral relations between India and Germany.
Sohini Sarkar is a fourth year student in the Department of Electrical Engineering. She talks about her summer experience while interning at Samsung in Bangalore.
Vikram Rao is a fourth year B.Tech student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He spent the summer interning at Microsoft Research, Redmond (MSR Redmond).
NSS is one of the three optional courses that all the B. Tech. / Dual Degree / Integrated M.A. students have to get enrolled in their first year, but we, the “Family of NSS” consider it as much more than that. Though it is a course according to the academic curriculum, one can see a lot of enthusiasm in the freshers when they do something as a part of NSS, be it the events like DOS collection or the projects. NSS also provides ‘winternships’ (winter internships) and also conducts various lectures and skill –building sessions such as web-operations sessions for the volunteers enrolled in it.
By Navyata Sanghvi The 65th Independence Day celebrations began at 8am at the Administration Block. The road was lined with potted plants and the stage…
A. Sneha is a 4th year student studying MA(Development Studies) at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. Interning at the Wadhwani Center…
In part 1 of the interview, Dr. Dhananjaya talked about his company and his research work. In this part of the interview, he talks about his views on research and entrepreneurship, along with some of his memories about IITM.
Bindu Upadhyay talks about her internship at Duke TiP – a summer studies program conducted by Duke University.
Dr. Dhananjaya Dendukuri is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Achira Labs, a Bangalore-based start-up which is developing new technologies for medical diagnostic testing at the point-of-care. He obtained his B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras in 1999 and won an Institute Blues (Bronze). He received his Masters Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Toronto, and his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was named one of the TOP 10 Innovators under the age of 35 by MIT Technology Review (also called TR35).