- An IITM alumnus Sanskrit scholar donates INR 90,00,000 to set up an adjunct chair professorship in the institute. [The Hindu]
- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announces that the Dept. of Telecom will set up a 5G test bed at IIT Madras. [TNM]
- Manish Sanyal, IITM alumnus, launches non-profit accelerator in San Francisco to support IIT startups. [ToI]
- IITM invites applications for 2-month paid summer fellowship. [NDTV]
- In a first of its kind, IITM may partner with San Francisco Biotech hub. [ET]
- IITM received INR 55 Cr in alumni donations/investments in 2016-17. [ToI]
- Student group — Friends of Animals — takes up stray dog sterilization program in insti. [TNIE]
- RTI reveals that 13 animals died in insti between November and December 2017. Cause of death is unclear. [The Hindu]
- Dept. of Energy Principal Secy Vikram Kapur said that TN will be adding an additional 9.5 giga watts of renewable energy generation capacity. He was speaking at the finals of the Carbon Zero Challenge on campus. [TNIE]
- The US-based MD Anderson Cancer Center has requested that its name be removed from promotional material of the 7th International Translational Cancer Research Conference with the theme – ‘Cancer prevention and treatment: From Ancient Medicine to Modern Medicine’, which was to be hosted by insti on 8th Feb [TNIE]. The Centre, which says it was a sponsor in 2016, made the announcement on Twitter following a tweet by Ivan Oransky (co-founder, RetractionWatch – a blog that reports on retraction of scientific papers), which linked to an article that mentioned Baba Ramdev’s association with the conference and commented that the conference “raised a lot of red flags”. Following these events, Baba Ramdev pulled out of attending the conference. [TNM]
