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The prestigious postgraduate scholarship program fully funds postgraduate study and research in any subject at the University of Cambridge. It was established through a $210 million donation to the University of Cambridge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 ; this remains the largest single donation to a university in the United Kingdom. In addition to outstanding academic achievement the program places emphasis on social leadership in its selection process as its mission is to create a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others. The U.S. scholars-elect will join about 60 scholars from other parts of the world, who will be announced in early April after interviews in late March. The class of 2019 will join current Gates Cambridge Scholars in October to form a community of approximately 220 Scholars in residence at the University of Cambridge. Dhruv Nandamud i, a Psychology graduate from Yale University in New Haven, Conn, wi...

Dr Madineni Venkat Ratnam of the National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Tirupati won the prize under the Earth, Atmosphere, Ocean and Planetary Sciences category. Madineni Venkata Ratnam,   was born on January 21, 1973 in Armoor, Nizamabad Dt, India. Son of Madineni Ramayya and Madineni Aademma. Education: Bachelor of Science, Giriraj Goverment degree college, Nizamabad, 1994. Master of Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad, 1997. Doctor of Philosophy, Sri Venkateshwara University, Tirupati, India, 2001. Career: Post doctoral fellow Department of Physics, National central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan, 2001—2002. Scientist Institute for Meteorology, University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 2002—2003. Japan society for promotion of science fellow RISH, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan, since 2003.

The Davidson Institute for Talent Development has announced the 2018 Davidson Fellows. 18-year-old Rajiv Movva of San Jose won a $10,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for his project, SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease. He is one of only 20 students across the country to receive this honor. Named as the among “The 10 Biggest Scholarships in the World” and one of the “7 Prestigious Undergrad Scholarships”, the fellowship is offered by the Davidson Institute to students who are 18 years or younger and who demonstrate the development of their talents with a significant piece of work in science, mathematics, technology, engineering, music, literature, philosophy or outside the box. “After spending hundreds of high school hours thinking about my various research questions, it feels great to be named a Davidson Fellow,” said Movva. “What I’ve done certainly seems more important and valuable now, a...

Myneni Hariprasada Rao , aka MHP Rao, (21 July 1927 - 5 April 2016) was born in Edlalanka village near Avanigadda, Krishna dist – AP is a retired Director of the Nuclear Power Board (now known as NPCL) of DAE, Mumbai, India . He has served for many years as a member of Southern, Western and Northern Indian Regional electricity boards. He was specially appointed by the then Nuclear Power Board to oversee the construction and commissioning of the MAP. He is praised by many as "The Father" or "Architect" of Madras Atomic Power Station. MHP Rao has a master's degree in Power Systems Engineering from Illinois Institute of technology. He has authored many articles and research papers. He was a recipient of Padma Shri Award in 1984 for his outstanding contributions in the field of Science and Technology. He also conferred with Sanjay Gandhi Award for contribution in Science and Technology in 1983.

She wasn't one of the four cash prize winners, but Sumani Nunna , a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in Durham, was one of the 15 finalists for the International BioGENEius Challenge, a major science competition for high school students. And she did get a private audience from a proud North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper as he joined global life science leaders at the 2018 BIO International Convention in Boston. Nunna, North Carolina’s lone finalist among entrants from around the U.S., Canada and Germany, lives in the Charlotte suburb of Concord. The BioGENEius Challenge recognizes outstanding research in biotechnology. Nunna and the 14 other finalists showcased their research at the annual BIO event. The Challenge provides young STEM innovators and entrepreneurs a venue to showcase their research and helps them build a long-term support system. Sanjeev Kohli, a grade 11 Sir John A Macdonald Secondary School student from Waterloo, On...

Prof. Suryadevara Mahendra Dev has been elected as President of the Indian Economic Association (IEA) for the next three years starting from January 2018. Apart from having annual conferences, IEA will help in organising conferences and seminars to improve the quality of teaching and research in economics in colleges and universities.  Mahendra Dev , a noted agri-economist, has been elevated as the Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA. He is the second person from India after Isher Ahluwalia (who became chairperson) to be appointed to a high position at the IFPRI in 42 years. Dev, who is at present Director & Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) in Mumbai , will formally take over the new responsibility in January 2018. The 59-year-old Dev has made significant contributions in agri development, poverty and public policy, food security, employ...

Regional Winners Move on to Final Phase of Competition: National Finals in Washington, D.C. Sriharshita Musunuri (Mill Creek, WA) Wins Top Individual Honor. The Winning Individual for Region One is Sriharshita Musunuri, a senior from the Henry M. Jackson High School, in Mill Creek, WA, won the individual category and a $3,000 scholarship for her project titled, “Computational and Experimental Design of MIP Nanoparticles: A Novel Theranostic Solution to Detect and Neutralize Endotoxins.” Sriharshita’s project addresses a difficult challenge faced in U.S. hospitals every day: gram-negative bacteria that causes sepsis which can cause organ failure in patients, and is the leading cause of death in US hospitals. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are harmful biomolecules found on the surface of gram-negative bacteria and are responsible for over 50% of sepsis cases. Shriharshita designed a new polymer nanoparticle that captures the harmful LPS bacterial endotoxins and could be used...

LA JOLLA--Salk Institute for Biological Studies Associate Professor Sreekanth Chalasani has been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative for developing a way to selectively activate brain, heart, muscle and other cells using ultrasonic waves, which could be a boon to neuroscience research as well as medicine. Chalasani will receive over $1 million for the first year of the award to expand his groundbreaking technology into mammalian cells. If it works in humans, such a technology could be used for deep brain stimulation--a common treatment in Parkinson's and depression. It could also be used outside of the brain to act as a pacemaker for a heart or to produce insulin from pancreatic cells. "The Chalasani lab developed a revolutionary way to precisely target specific cells in a living organism using sound waves," says Salk President Elizabeth Blackburn. ...

Sreya Vemuri , 17, of Carmel, investigated an aspect of quantum mechanics for her Intel Science Talent Search physics project. In this field, a Hamiltonian is defined as an operator that describes the totality of all of the energy within a system. Sreya investigated the effect of time on quantum systems in which parity (P), representing the algebraic sign of a system, and time (T), are each symmetric. Unlike previous research that assumed a time-independent (i.e., static) Hamiltonian, Sreya manipulated the energy and properties of a PT-symmetric system as time passed and observed how the symmetry of the Hamiltonian was affected. This enabled her to outline several conditions that would impact its function. Her findings on the quantum mechanics of open systems may inform laser and optic development as well as quantum computing. Sreya is founder and president of the Bollywood club at Carmel High School and volunteers with the North South Foundation to raise money for impoverished chi...

A total of 14 Indian American students have made it to the finals of the prestigious 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, which annually brings the country’s top 40 brightest high school seniors for a competition with a prize tag of $150,000, in Washington, DC. Of the 14 Indian Americans who would be coming in March for the prestigious science competition, five are from California: Sanath Devalapurkar, Anjini Karthik, Anin Sayana, Pranav Srinivas and Maya Varma. Two others are from Massachusetts: Yashaswini Makaram and Amol Punjabi. The other Indian American students who made the cut are: Vikul Gupta from Orlando, Maana Jagadeesan from New Hampshire, Milind Jagota from Pennsylvania, Shreya Menon from Michigan, Kavya Ravichandran from Ohio, Kunal Shroff from Virginia and Sreya Vemuri from Indiana. “Finalists of the Intel Science Talent Search are the innovators of the future,” said Maya Ajmera, the president and CEO of Society for Science & the Public, publisher of ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) elected Jagadish Chennupati of The Australian National University to its 2015 NAI Fellows on 15 December 2015 .  The award recognizes innovators that have made positive contributions to the world and U.S. economy and includes: 27 Nobel laureates, 27 inductees to the National Inventors Hall of Fame and 32 recipients of the U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation and U.S. National Medal of Science. The NAI described the election as “a high professional distinction accorded to academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” The newly elected fellows will join 156 other scientific luminaries to be recognized at a formal induction on 15 April 2016 at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The NAI Fellows...

Sruthi Tummala knows exactly when she fell in love with science and math — at her first Girl Scouts camp in eighth grade. The Ursuline senior Sruthi Tummala was honored as a Young Woman of Distinction at the recent Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Women of Distinction Luncheon at The Hilton Anatole. “It’s about moving forward and helping the next generation,” said Tummala. “Ursuline and the Girl Scouts are so Serviam-based. Ursuline has made me more self-confident and showed me leadership doesn’t have to be on a big scale. You can always make a difference.” Tummala has been a Juliette Girl Scout member since 2012. With the help of Girl Scouts mentor Gerri Gordon, she earned her Gold Award after developing math and science curriculum for fourth graders at St. Monica. She also received the President’s Volunteer Service Award for her commitment to community service. Tummala said she was inspired listening to luncheon keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, the CEO of Girls Who...

A team of bioengineers at Rice University and surgeons at the University of Pennsylvania, led in part by an Indian American scientist Pavan Atluri , have collaborated to create a new implant that could indicate medical technology may be on the cusp of developing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation. The implant, which contains an intricate network of blood vessels, was created in a 3D printer using just sugar and silicone. The researchers have recently released their findings in a study called “In vivo anastomosis and perfusion of a 3D printed construct containing micro-channel networks,” published in the journal Tissue Engineering Part C: Methods. “They don’t yet look like the blood vessels found in organs, but they have some of the key features relevant for a transplant surgeon,” said Jordan Miller, professor of bioengineering at Rice and head of the bioengineering team. “We created a construct that has one inlet and one outlet, which are about 1 millime...