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IITGN PhD alumna wins SITARE-Gandhian Young Technological Award 2020

IITGN PhD alumna wins SITARE-Gandhian Young Technological Award 2020

Nov 7, 2020 |

Ms Deepa Dixit, a PhD alumna of Chemical Engineering at IITGN has received this award for developing ‘A Non-Electric and Affordable Surface Engineered Particle Based Point-of-Use Water Disinfection’ system. Ms Deepa Dixit, a recent PhD graduate from the Chemical Engineering discipline of IITGN, has won Gandhian Young Technological Innovation award 2020 in the category of Students Innovations for Advancement of Research Explorations – Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (SITARE-GYTI). The virtual award ceremony of SITARE-GYTI and SRISTI-GYTI awards, held in New Delhi on November 05, 2020, was graced by Hon’ble Union Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan. Deepa is among the 14...

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Library Roundup

Nov 6, 2020 |

Week 26: 2 November 2020 - 6 November 2020 Book of the week: Einstein on the run: How Britain saved the world’s greatest scientist New...

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CCL-IITGN launches 20-20 lamps series

CCL-IITGN launches 20-20 lamps series

Nov 3, 2020 |

The team releases a video of how to make a new paper lamp every day on its YouTube channel from Dussehra to Diwali and also explains the math behind shapes of these platonic and Archimedean solids. With an aim to illuminate Diwali with environment-friendly self-made decorations that also teaches some lessons of Mathematics, the Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at IITGN has launched a ‘20-20 lamps’ series. As a part of this video series, which was launched on the day of Dussehra and would continue for 20 days up to Diwali, every day the CCL team would release a...

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IITGN PhD Scholars bag the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship

IITGN PhD Scholars bag the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship

Oct 25, 2020 |

Six of IITGN PhD scholars have received the Prime Minister Research Fellowship for the May 2020 cycle, which is one of the best acceptance rate among the newer IITs. Six doctoral students of IITGN – Ashish Tiwari, Kailash Prasad, Prasanna Kulkarni, Rajes Ghosh, Sachinkumar Suthar, and Yogesh Singh – have bagged the prestigious Prime Minister Research Fellowship (PMRF) for the May 2020 cycle. The acceptance rate of IITGN for the fellowship is one of the best among the second-generation IITs. Around 627 nominations were received from several eminent national-level institutions of India including the IITs, IISc, NITs, IISERs, Aligarh...

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