Manju Sheth Is INEN Woman Of The Year
Dr. Manju Sheth, Co-chair of the Lokvani@10 gala was named as the INEN Women of the Year. Eshani Shah, a member of the Lokvani@10 gala committee was as a finalist and was recognized for Excellence in Theater.
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Budding Karate Exponents
Simran S. Khanna, Hari Narayanan, Raghav Kadambi, Rishi S. Khanna and Sriram Narayanan won awards for Karate at the prestigious World Martial Arts Federation competitions held at the Reggie Lewis Arena in Boston.
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Sukanya Roy Wins Scripps National Trophy
14 year old Sukanya Roy from South Abington, Pennsylvania, the 2010 MetLife South Asian Spelling Bee National First Runner-Up took home the Scripps National Trophy with her spelling of the championship word: cymotrichous.
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Congratulations To Anoop Kumar
It has been a momentous year for Lokvani team member Anoop Kumar. He received his PhD in computer science from Tufts University. His area of specialization is Computational Biology. He and his wife Tejashri were also blessed with a beautiful daughter Aditi on June 3, 2011.
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Anant Agarwal Named CSAIL Director
Anant Agarwal, a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been named the next director MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).
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Getting To Know Padmashree Lila Poonawalla
Life was not easy for Lila Poonawalla when she came to India as a refugee from Hyderabad, Pakistan with her grandparents, mother and four brothers. The entire family had to survive on the pension from their father's life insurance policy after he died in a train accident. Today she is known to the world as the first woman CEO in India’s business history as Chairman and Managing Director of Alfa Laval from 1987 to 2001.
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Pratham USA Receives $250,000 Deloitte21 Challenge Grant
Pratham USA receives $250,000 Deloitte21 Challenge Grant to support the launch of new centers for disenfranchised teenage girls in India.
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Karan Sarkar Of Wesford Scores Perfect 800
Karan Sarkar, a 12 year old student from Westford, MA, scores a perfect 800 in the Math section and 700 in the verbal section of the SAT I exam.
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SABAGB Know Your Rights! Program Wins Outstanding Program Award
The South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston (“SABA GB”) is pleased to announce that its “Know Your Rights!” Program (“KYR”) won the 2011 Outstanding Program Award at this year’s North American South Asian Bar Association (“NASABA”) Annual Convention. The NASABA Convention was held from June 23-26 in Los Angeles, CA.
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Raghav Mishra Wins 1st Place Gold Medal At 1st Global GENIUS Olympiad
Raghav Mishra of Shrewsbury, MA, represented the USA at the International Olympiad on Environment (GENIUS Olympiad, i.e. Global Environmental Issues and Us). He secured the 1st place and was awarded the Gold Medal (along with an ACER Net Book). Raghav also won the 'Most Knowledgeable' award.
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Dr. Ramesh Donepudi Joins Emerson Hospital
Dr. Ramesh Donepudi,who completed his residency in internal medicine at Lahey Clinic and a fellowship in sleep disorders at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, joins sleep medicine, pulmonology, and critical care services at Emerson Hospital.
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Narahari Bharadwaj Wins 2011 MetLife South Asian Spelling Bee
Narahari Bharadwaj of Plano, TX, correctly spelled the word ‘schindylesis’ during the 2011 South Asian Spelling Bee Finals to clinch the title of National Champion. During the event on August 12, Narahari along with 19 other finalists competed for the title. Stuti Mishra from West Melbourne, FL was the first runner-up and Chetan Reddy from Plano, TX was the second runner-up.
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Christine Schuster Named Business Person Of The Year By Concord Chamber Of Commerce
The Concord Chamber of Commerce will honor its 2011 Business Person of the Year, Christine Schuster, at the Chamber’s 58th Annual Dinner.
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Teach India Project Presents The Global Education Professional Development Award To Tara Olshaw
Teach India Project presented the Global Education Professional Development Award to Tara Olshaw. Tara teaches fourth grade at Memorial Elementary School in Burlington, MA. She traveled to India on a two week study tour in July 2011 visiting cultural sites, grassroots organizations and schools in North India.
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Surya Bhupatiraju: Finalist In 2011 Siemens Competition
Surya Bhupatiraju, Lexington High School, Lexington, MA was the only Indian-American New Englander among the Semifinalists and Regional Finalists in the prestigious 2011-12 Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology, the nation’s premier science research competition for high school students, sponsored by The Siemens Foundation.
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