Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson and managing director of Bangalore, India-based Biocon, was elected as a full-term member of the MIT Corporation, the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is among the eight full-term members who will each serve a term of five years starting July 1, 2018....
MIT, Harvard's edX Courses To Be Co-hosted in India
Harvard University- and MIT-founded edX will provide 2,300 courses that will be co-hosted on India’s Massive Open Online Course platform, SWAYAM. Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX, sealed the deal with Prakash Javadekar, head of the federal Human Resource Development ministry. edX counts the world’s leading universities, nonprofits, and institutions as...
Architect Balkrishna Doshi Awarded Pritzker Prize
Now in its 40th year, the Pritzker Prize is awarded to a living architect who displays a combination of "talent, vision, and commitment." Ninety-year-old Balkrishna Doshi received the award for 2018 in recognition of a career spanning almost 70 years. Founded by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy --...
Washington State University Helps Advance India's Power Grid
Washington State University will lead a nationwide consortium of U.S. universities and industry partners in a five-year, $30 million joint research project with India to advance the development of the power grid in both countries. The US. Department of Energy announced a $7.5 million grant to the U.S. team, which...
MIT Grads Provide Biodegradable Sanitary Pads to Rural India
A startup, Saathi (meaning 'companion' in Hindi), founded by three graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate from Nirma University in India, is hoping to improve access and waste disposal of sanitary pads for women in rural India. 275,000,000 women in India cannot access pads because they are...
Gravitational-Wave Observatory to Be Set Up in India
A month after the discovery of gravitational waves, a memorandum of understanding for building a state-of-the-art LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) project in the country, was signed between the National Science Foundation U.S.A. and India's Department of Atomic Energy and Department of Science and Technology. LIGO-India will collaborate with the...