ALL ABOUT THE COMMUNITY NEWSMAKERS
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March 2015 -
Mrs. Pintu Thaker’s team with Adarsh Patel won 2nd in Georgia for their app on youth smoking; team with Avneet Sethi and Plabani Sharif were national finalists for tackling physical inactivity.
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March 2015 -
Atlanta artists Subra Viswanathan, Lakshmi Prabhakar, and Jassotha Balasubramaniam were honored by Preeti Vinayak of the Natyam Arts Academy in Dunwoody, GA for almost ten years service.
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February 2015 -
Atlanta’s Dr. Sivananda Nyayapathi won 4th place at the Portrait Society of America’s 2014 Members Only Annual Competition, among over 800 talented art works submitted from around the world.
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February 2015 -
Shiv Aggarwal was one of 23 awarded the Bharat Gaurav Award at the Le Meridian in New Delhi on January 6, 2015 by the India International Friendship Society on its Annual Global Friendship Day.
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February 2015 -
To pursue a career in international affairs and economics, Simi Shah will move to Cambridge later this year to earn a degree at Harvard University. She offers advice to other hopeful students.
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January 2015 -
Sai P. Gourisankar of Atlanta is one of four Indian-Americans headed to Oxford, England, on a 2015 Rhodes Scholarship, one of the most distinguished graduate scholarships in the world.
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January 2015 -
Jvion, an Atlanta-based provider of clinical predictive algorithms, won the Intel Innovation Award for its "RevEgis" software, which can prevent illness and save patients and hospitals millions.
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December 2014 -
Bal K. Gupta was recently honored by The 1947 Partition Archive at the University of California, Berkeley, where stories of people who lived through the partition of India and Pakistan are preserved.
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December 2014 -
Dr. Avinandan (Avi) Mukherjee is now Dean of the College of Business at Clayton State University, following stellar performance at Montclair State University (NJ) and numerous schools around the world.
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December 2014 -
Dr. Veena N. Rao's research on breast cancer in African-American women is featured on the National Cancer Institute CRCHD (Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities) Spotlight webpage.
