2020 – Page 13 – The KGP Chronicle

Feb

11

2020

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Round India Winners

EventsCFA, competition, financial engineering, IIT KGP students, IIT Kharagpur students, kgpian, students, undergraduate students, VGSoM, Vinod Gupta School of Management, winner

IIT Kharagpur Students among the Winners of India Finals of CFA Institute Research Challenge 2019-2020 A five-member student team from IIT Kharagpur has qualified for the Asia Pacific round of the CFA Institute Research Challenge 2019-2020. Along with IIM Ahmedabad and IIFT Delhi, the team from IIT Kharagpur have been won the India Finals of this Global level competition held on February 8, 2020. The Asia Pacific round is scheduled to be held on March 18-19 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. The AP Challenge will consist of one winner from each Member Society of the Asia Pacific Region, typically about…

Feb

06

2020

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

What’s Heating India?

In-DepthClimate Change, environment, Global Warming, green, heating, Surface Heat, Urban Heating, urbanization, warming

Green-less Urbanization leading to India’s Heat Islands Economic Times The Week News 18 Prabhat Khabar Hindustan Times The Republic World The Hindu Indian Express Mongabay Amar Ujala Navbharat Times Aaj Tak Outlook Our Bitcoin News Telangana Today Orissa Post News Nation Millenium Post …

Feb

06

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

Outlining a heritagescape

Social ImpactAHRC, Balagarh, Baluchari, Bengal's heritage, Chinsurah, culture, custodian, heritage, Hooghly, Hugli, ICHR, IIT Kharagpur

A joint workshop at IIT Kharagpur tries to take heritage conservation from yearnings for the past to a vision for a resilient future The Baluchari sari has long been accepted as a reflection of Bengal’s rich artistic heritage. Does this idea of heritage also stretch to lives of the people who make it? Would this heritage have been preserved without their role in the sustenance of this art through their generational participation in its making? Would Chhau dance, another unique heritage of Bengal, survive if the next generation of Chhau dancers do not learn the dance? When the Rajbanshis…

Feb

03

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

Marching Towards a Smart Campus

In-Depthinfrastructure design, smart city

The Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management helps IIT Kharagpur develop a SMART campus Indian Express, Edexlive Keeping up with the Government of India’s call to develop Smart cities, the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta School of Infrastructure Design and Management is not only developing the necessary expertise, knowhow and testing facilities, but new facilities set up in the School will help IIT Kharagpur itself develop a Smart campus. Two new laboratories were recently inaugurated at the School – the Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics Lab and the Infrastructure Evaluation Lab. Speaking on the occasion, the Director, Prof.…

Jan

31

2020

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By Poulami Mondal

The Good, The Bad and The Unknown

Storiesalumni, alumnus, book, Book Review, kgpian

Another IITian turns author. And Raj Tilak Roushan is quite an unusual IITian. An award-winning police officer, RTR, as he is known, spent five years in the private sector, both in India and abroad, after graduating from IIT Kharagpur, then got tired of "working to make rich people richer", and joined the IPS. The story of his extraordinary work in Palghar, Maharashtra, in fighting child trafficking, involving both deep data analysis and sensitising his force ("think of every child missing as a child from your own family") is here The stories in RTR's book are police procedurals. Most of them,…

Jan

30

2020

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

Republic Day Honours

Eventsalumni, alumnus, Award, faculty, humanities and social sciences, kgpian, metallurgical and materials engineering

Two alumni and a faculty member from IIT Kharagpur have been conferred top awards by the NRI Welfare Society of India. Sundeep Mukherjee (B.Tech./MM/1998) Alumnus Dr. Sundeep Mukherjee has been named the recipient of the Hind Rattan Award, one of the highest Indian diasporic awards granted to non-resident Indians by the NRI Welfare Society of India. He belongs to the 1998 batch and did B.Tech. degree in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering. At present he is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of North Texas (UNT). Mukherjee's area of work involves Advanced Materials Development, Energy Conversion and…

Jan

28

2020

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By Sreeparna

The Incredible 1970s and Spring Fest

Storiesadda, Alumni Affairs, Alumni Clock Tower, alumni gift, Golden 2020 Reunion, IIT Kharagpur, MHRD, Spring Fest

Colourful festoons, huge sponsor banners and flags decked up the entire campus last weekend. Makeshift ‘pandals’ popped up and an air of festivity hung around. Students scurried across different venues. They had spent sleepless nights for weeks. It was that time of the year when students from all over India flocked to the campus for one of the most outstanding college fests in south Asia – the Spring Fest. This year, Spring Fest saw a mini galaxy descend on campus. Around 150 alumni from the Batch of 1970 came back to their alma mater to celebrate their 50th graduation anniversary.…

Jan

27

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

An incredible moment

Funded Projectsadda, Alumni Clock Tower, Amit Khare, Arjun Malhotra, Batch of 1970, HCL, IIT Kharagpur, MHRD, Ron Gupta

Times of India India Education Diary Close to 150 members of the Batch of 1970, together with their spouses celebrated their 50th graduation anniversary at IIT Kharagpur recently in a grand celebration titled the ‘Golden 2020 Reunion’ (from Jan 24-26). Batch members congregated from all over the world to commemorate the occasion with the twin inaugurals of ‘ADDA’ – their batch’s gift to the campus community, along with the Alumni Clock Tower which now stands as a gift from the passionate Kgpians across the alumni batches. The Alumni Clock Tower was inaugurated by Shri Amit Khare, IAS, Secretary, MHRD, Govt…

Jan

24

2020

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By Chirosree Basu

Crafted from paper

In-Depthcell culture, coculture, filter paper, flexible 3D models, hydrogels, IIT Kharagpur, paper scaffolds, paper substrate, stem cells

Cell culture is integral to biological research. It provides a model to study the standard physiology and biochemistry of cells, the effect of drugs on cells, how cells behave under different culture environments. But the growing of cells on flat plastic surfaces does not accurately model their state inside the body. Hence scientists are increasingly using various three-dimensional (3D) cell culture strategies that allow cells to grow or interact with their surroundings in a way they actually do inside the body. The prevalent 3D culture systems are mainly scaffolds, hydrogels and 3D printed models. Producing them is time consuming and…

Jan

23

2020

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By Shreyoshi Ghosh

VGSOM’s Placement Record

Eventsbusiness, business management, business school, Business studies, Management, Placement, PPO, pre placement, prepplacement offer, salary, Singapore Management University, VGSoM, Vinod Gupta, Vinod Gupta School of Management

IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management Completes Final Placements in Record Time with 31% PPOs India Today NDTV With the onset of 2020 IIT Kharagpur’s Vinod Gupta School of Management (VGSoM) has set a new record with close to one-third of its placement offers being PPOs. It has also become one of the first management schools to conclude its final placements for the 2019-2020 academic year. The MBA Class of 2020 have mostly opted for Consulting as their preferred domain with a dominant share of 26%. Among the other key domains are Operations, Sales & Marketing, Analytics…