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Forging healthy peer relationships at IITGN

Phil Jackson once remarked, “The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.” Often, in the chores of routine office work and struggle to meet deadlines, peers and colleagues at an institution/organisation do not find time for interaction and conversations. With the aim of facilitating healthy interdepartmental exchanges and instilling nouveau skills through capacity-building and team-building programmes, the Staff Development Cell (SDC) was constituted at the institute in April this year. In the chain of programmes that the Cell had been running for the past few months, the SDC organised an...

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Challenging ideas, changing lives: Amalthea’ 17

Amalthea 2017 – the annual technical summit of the institute – was held during November 4-6 with the aim of promoting technology, bestowing knowledge, aiding scientific thinking and stimulating entrepreneurship among the students. Amalthea was inaugurated in 2010 and has been changing lives through its ideas since then. The eighth edition of Amalthea was inaugurated by Mr A P Hota, former MD & CEO of National Payments Corporation of India and Prof Sudhir K Jain, Director, IITGN. The theme of this year focused on the myriad trails of development, from conception of ideas to their manifestation in our lives. It shall...

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Library Roundup

Week 41: 16 Oct 2017 - 20 Oct 2017 Book of the week: Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy New...

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