Institute Soapbox (Day 2): Sports Secretary, Institute General Elections 2018
The Institute Sports Secretary Soapbox was held on the second day of the Institute Soapboxes. The candidates contesting this year for the position of the…
The Institute Sports Secretary Soapbox was held on the second day of the Institute Soapboxes. The candidates contesting this year for the position of the…
The Day 1 of the Institute Soapbox held on March 6 saw the candidates for the positions of Research Affairs Secretary and International & Alumni…
By Tony Fredrick and Kaushik Viswanath The Institute Soapbox series began on the 6th of March 2018 with the soapbox for the post of Research…
By Kanka Ghosh and Priya Khola The challenge of having to work with limited resources has been the driving force behind several technological innovations in…
Reporting and Design by Naomi Karyamsetty Are you a concerned member of the student body, wondering about the upcoming institute elections scene? Are you skeptical…
For decades, researchers working on neurodegenerative disorders (like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s) focused on figuring out what happens in the neurons (brain cells). Brain research is…
Looking for that perfect pizza place to mark the end of a stressful week? Read on! Onesta as the Italian name suggests, is a beautiful…
Uncertainty is present all around us, from the change in climate around the world to the oscillations of nerves in the nerve-muscle junction. Observing the…
As of today, Hostel Elections for the academic year 2018-19 have not been notified by the Student Election Commission (the organization charged by the Students’ Constitution to conduct elections) and it seems likely that hostel elections shall be conducted only in mid-August 2018. The potential ramifications of this move are numerous, and the manner in which the decision to postpone the elections was taken raises many important questions. Varun Sridhar, Venkataraman Ganesh, and Kaushik Viswanath report.
Human-built air vehicles glide, chop, or propel themselves through the air. Nature’s fliers, however, flap their wings. Flapping flight is a complicated phenomenon, and understanding…