November 2019 | The KGP Chronicle

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30

2019

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Placement Begins

EventsCareer, career development, IIT KGP students, IIT Kharagpur students, Placement, PPO, pre placement, prepplacement offer, Recruitment, students, undergraduate students

It is the time of the year when all eyes are towards the IITs - as December hits, so does the placement season at IITs. At IIT Kharagpur with 282 PPOs the Institute is aiming to secure 1000+ placements in less than a week’s time. Already three PSUs have recruited and more are expected in the coming months. This year several first-time recruiters will visit the IIT Kharagpur campus including top corporate brands like Sony Japan, PayPal, P&G India, Nestle India, Nomura. The Institute will also be welcoming back international recruiters like Apple, Microsoft Redmond, Uber, Amex, Qualcomm, Mercari Japan…

Nov

29

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Sharing the Best

Uncategorizedforeign students, fullbright, international, international outreach, International Relations, international students, Scholarship, student scholarship, united states, USIEF

India Today Outlook Millennium Post Times of India The Statesman Times City IIT Kharagpur and the United States - India Educational Foundation (USIEF) organized a two-day joint workshop for universities in Eastern India themed ‘Igniting Interest to Study in India: Best Practices to Attract Foreign Students on Your Campus’. USIEF promotes mutual understanding between the nationals of India and the US through the educational exchange of outstanding scholars, professionals and students. The organization has the mandate to organize such outreach workshops to…

Nov

26

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Eye to the future

EventsAlzheimer's disease, amyloid peptide, cataract, Department of Chemistry, EGCG, fibrillation, IIT Kharagpur, nanomedicinal chemistry, Protein Chemistry Laboratory, UV

Research in the Protein Chemistry Laboratory is aimed at an understanding of protein interactions with small molecules, other proteins and nanoparticles. The increasing use of peptides as therapeutics has prompted us to look into the various aspects of these interactions to try and understand the impact on disease related processes. A brief outline of the different projects: Protein aggregation studies: Aggregation studies currently underway involve several proteins as well as the amyloid peptide fragment Ab25-35which represents the biologically active and toxic domain of the full length Aβ peptide, responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. Inhibition of amyloid fibrillation of the Aβ25-35 peptide…

Nov

21

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Art of Gift, Gift to Art

Funded Projectsalumni, Alumni Affairs, alumni donation, alumni gift, alumnus, Classical, Classical and Folk Arts, Classical Arts, IIT KGP Foundation of USA, IIT KGP Foundation USA, IIT Kharagpur Alumni, IIT Kharagpur Foundation

The Telegraph India Today Hindustan Times Yahoo News Business Standard DevDiscourse Times Now Jagran Josh IIT Kharagpur’s Academy of Classical and Folk Arts has roped another key patron with US-based alumnus Mukund Padmanabhan donating ₹52 Lakh to this one of its kind outreach unit in the IIT system. The funding is towards building a music auditorium with a digitally enhanced learning environment, conducting thematic workshops on classical and folk arts and engaging teaching fellows. Plans have been drawn…

Nov

21

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

A New Page in India’s History

In-Deptharchaeological, archaeology, Climate Change, geological, Geology, Ghaggar-Hakra, Gujarat, Harappa, history, Indian monsoon, Indus, Indus Valley, iron age, IVC, Kutch, medieval history, monsoon, Rann, Thar, water

Times of India Hindu BusinessLine Hindustan Times Nature Asia UNI DownToEarth NewsLive (North East 24x7) India Today Yahoo News The Hindu Millenium Post India Blooms Deccan Herald NewsClick The Week Dainik Jagran Ahmedabad Mirror Swarajya Asian Age A breakthrough discovery by a study led by IIT Kharagpur…

Nov

20

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Dance of the rain

In-DepthIIT Kharagpur, Indian monsoons, Indian summer monsoon, Meghalaya, Mughals. Little Ice Age, rain, stalagmite, Wadia Institute, Wah Shikar cave

The Hindu, Times of India (Kol), Times of India Reduced rainfall was among the factors that created multicentennial-scale drier conditions that may have contributed to the Indus Valley deurbanization. Lack of rainfall is believed to have been among the reasons for the social upheaval and the eventual fall of the Tang, Yuan and Ming dynasties of China. Drought interspersed with violent monsoon rains sounded the death knell of the Khmer empire of south-east Asia that flourished between 802 and 1431 CE. There can be no doubting the profound impact of the abrupt shifts of rainfall on human history – a fact…

Nov

19

2019

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By Sreeparna

Around the Campus in 60 minutes…

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“How big is the campus, and how long would it take to see everything around?” asked an inquisitive voice. Pratyush Bansal, a 9th grade student from Global Indian International School, Singapore had come as a participant to IIT Kharagpur campus on the event of the Young Innovators Program 2019. Launched in 2017, the Young Innovators Program or YIP is in its third year with almost three times more participants from India and abroad. With more than a hundred students, the task of touring the 2100 acres campus within an hour was indeed a challenge. The day was windy with erratic…

Nov

14

2019

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Summer Internship Records All-time High

EventsCareer, career development, industry, internship, Jobs, Placement, PPO, pre placement, prepplacement offer

News18 Internship offers for Summer 2020 have crossed the 500-mark at IIT Kharagpur. The internship process which started in August 2019 has been soaring high compared to last year’s figure which was comparatively lower with the closing figure at 461. IIT Kharagpur’s Career Development Centre has further witnessed an increasing trend in the internship season. More than seventy-five companies have already visited the campus. The most encouraging fact is that the campus has witnessed the participation and presence of all the sectors like IT/Software, Analytics/ Consulting, e-Commerce, Banking and Healthcare though IT/ software. Career Development Centre (CDC) is optimistic…

Nov

13

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

Back in time

Storiesalcohol, Bright Star University of Technology, Chemical Engineering, FIITJEE, Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur's Young Innovators Program 2019, K.S.N. Raju, Panjab University, YIP 2019

It was a homecoming of sorts. As Arjun Varma Kalidindi stood in front of the Chemical Engineering Department in the falling light, his mother, Usha, quickly clicked a few pictures. They had stolen these moments away from their visit to the Nehru Museum of Science and Technology with the members of the 32 teams who had come to participate in the IIT Kharapgur’s Young Innovator’s Program 2019. They just had to make this detour. Many aeons ago, Arjun’s grandfather - K. Satyanarayana Raju on our rolls, and later Dr. K.S.N Raju – would have walked those stretches many a time…

Nov

11

2019

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By Chirosree Basu

The day of many victories

EnvironmentAI, Arduino, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans School, Brahm Prakash D.A.V School, Delhi Public School, Greta Thunberg, Hyderabad, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kharagpur's Young Innovators Program 2019, KiiT International School, Ruby Park, Sakhi, YIP 2019

Times of India, NDTV, Business Standard, The Week, Preptube.in, Hans India, Devdiscourse, College Dekho Greta Thunberg can take heart. The theme of ‘Energy and Environment’ received top billing at IIT Kharagpur’s Young Innovators Program 2019, with a majority of the participating school students electing to find their own ways to combat pollution and promote conservation. In its third edition, the contest drew students from Classes VIII-X from schools all over India and abroad to brainstorm on the themes of Health and Cleanliness, Hardware Modelling, Product Designing, Disaster Management, Financial Inclusion, as also Energy and Environment. The grand finale of YIP was held at the IIT Kharagpur…