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- BIOLOGY STUDENTS LAND PRESTIGIOUS INTERNSHIPS FOR RESEARCH AND STUDY April 17, 2019
SRM AP B.Sc. (Biology) students, Vasika Venugopal and Gowtham Gadupudi have landed prized internships with Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and World Wildlife Fund.
Vasika Venugopal will begin her summer at the Project Oriented Biological Education (POBE) an initiative of JNCASR, Bengaluru. Beginning May 2019 and for 3 consecutive years she will attend this esteemed fellowship for 2 months during the summer break. Meanwhile, around the same time, Gowtham Gadupudi’s begins his 1-month internship at WWF in Hyderabad.The POBE project will enable Vasika to work in neuroscience and stem therapy (areas of interest to her) with an opportunity to have her work published in the JNCASR journal. The fellowship program awards a Diploma in Biology. Vasika will join a group of 11 candidates selected for this coveted program.
Gowtham will report to the WWF State Director (who inspired him to apply during his visit to the SRM AP campus) during his internship tenure. Gowtham will develop biodiversity resource material on reptiles, amphibians, birds, and butterflies of Hyderabad as well as trees and foliage of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. As part of his research, Gowtham will develop a database for the Wild Wisdom Quiz and write up research, proposals and reports.While Vasika will be exposed to research methodologies, Gowtham will gain practical experience within the global organization structure of WWF.
Continue reading → - “Our adoption of the Minerva Forum represents a leap forward in the use of interactive technology in which every single student is intensely engaged.” VC Jamshed Bharucha April 15, 2019
April, 2019: At the ASU GSV (Arizona State University/Global Silicon Valley) education summit in San Diego, SRM AP VC Jamshed Bharucha and Minerva’s Ben Nelson (serving on a panel entitled ‘Practical Solutions for Major Reform in Higher Education’) announced that the enhanced Minerva Forum will be offered to SRM AP’s students in the engineering and liberal arts. Ben Nelson explained how the scalable Forum platform improves educational outcomes for classes up to 400 students.Built upon seven years of development and decades of research into the science of learning, Minerva’s education system includes its pedagogy, intentionally scaffolded curriculum design, and proprietary Forum learning environment, designed to offer fully active learning classes in real time.
Ben Nelson, founder and CEO of Minerva pointed out that the system was designed with the specific goal of advancing the intellectual development of each student.
For SRM AP, the immediate benefit in adopting this platform – an intensive active-learning pedagogy using interactive technology – is that it establishes a stronger foundation in basic competencies like Expressive Clarity and Critical/Creative Thinking and Communication as well as other foundation courses. Subsequently, these fundamental cognitive processes will be extended onto courses across the curriculum.
SRM AP LEADERSHIP AT ASU GSV
Started in 2010 with a collaboration between Arizona State University and Global Silicon Valley (GSV), the annual summit focusses on learning and career outcomes. ASU GSV is regarded as the world’s leading education and workforce innovation summit. Also, at the summit this year, Nicholas Dirks, member of SRM AP Board of Governors and Honorary Pro Chancellor, served on a panel – The Coddling of the American Mind: Are Good Intentions Setting Up a Generation for Failure? Nicholas Dirks also gave a talk entitled StarTrek: The Global Context for the Reimagination of Education.
Continue reading → - SRM AP NOW A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE BOARD’S INDIA GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION ALLIANCE April 12, 2019
At the recent College Board’s ‘India Global Higher Education Alliance’ symposium in Bangalore, SRM AP Director, Admissions Rupesh Bisht received the membership plaque from Linda Liu, Vice President, International, The College Board – the US based institution behind the SAT.
With this membership SRM AP joins a distinguished group of institutions in India and abroad (including Ashoka University, Columbia University and University of Cambridge) in adopting the SAT as a benchmark in the admissions processes. “As a founding member of the India Global Higher Education Alliance we will collectively shape the agenda of inclusivity and access to high quality higher education in India, says Rupesh Bisht. “SAT scores have proven predictive validity of student performance and we intend to use these as an admissions criterion in addition to our SRMJEEE test.”
At this event, leaders from the Alliance’s member universities gathered with prominent experts from the World Bank, Brookings India, Manipal Education Group and the Consortium for Higher Education Research in Asia (CHERA) to foster collaboration and the sharing of global best practices to advance access and excellence in higher education.
Some of the initiatives discussed: providing high quality education at the scale needed to meet India’s demands, increasing autonomy at leading universities, connecting university researchers to India’s national laboratories, the need to shift away from lecture-based classes to more project-based coursework and a call for institutions to put students at the top of their priority list.
https://international.collegeboard.org/india-global-alliance
Continue reading → - ‘IPS based attendance system’ wins top prize at Ennovab’s business plan competition February 21, 2019
Pitchathon 2k19 – a 24-hour entrepreneurial journey with a big result!
Ennovab, SRM AP’s entrepreneurial innovation lab launched the first 24-hour business plan competition that went from founders speed dating (complete strangers in insightful conversations) to rigorous brainstorming, to five groups of fifty students with common problems running market research, prototyping, punching out financial models – to the final pitch.
An IPS based Attendance System (an idea proposed by five first year students Prannoy Tuggiti, Manoj Manike, Moin Syed, Prabhu Avula, and Anvesh Reddyh) was awarded the first prize by a distinguished panel of judges (T. Ragunathan, Head of Computer Science and Engineering with 25 years in database systems; Dr. Srabani Basu, professor at Career Development Centre and former senior corporate trainer at Addeco India; and Dr. Marc Howard Rich, professor of English and Journalism, and former lecturer at Christopher Newport University)
The IPS based attendance system is a mobile application that enables students to mark attendance – one student per app. Of course, it works only if their location (determined by IPS, the Indoor Positioning System) is detected to be inside the stipulated class!
The first runner up team (Jaideep Cherukuri, Yash tripathi, Bhavana Yedlapalli, Krishna, Abhishree Sai) proposed a real-time ETA system for autos so SRMites located in the middle of nowhere can make quick getaways!
While the 2nd runner up team of Rahul Gupta, Ruthwik Reddy, Dileep Patted, Arumilli Nikitha and Poorna Sai proposed a Smart ID card that can be used instead of paper coupons in places like the canteen and library.
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Continue reading → - SRM AP’s intra-faculty Data Science course now in collaboration with UC Berkeley February 19, 2019
This year SRM AP introduces Data Science for all students in the School of Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences (SLABS). Supported by intellectual capital of colleagues at the University of California- Berkeley, SRM AP’s Data Science course comprises lectures and labs that encourage discussion as students get comfortable in simple programming using Python.
“Recognizing that data science is an essential building block for critical applications of today and the future we are offering it as a foundation course for all SLABS students”, says SLABS Associate Dean, Dr. Shailender Swaminathan.
Continue reading → - SRM AP TEAM WIN TOP PRIZE AT DEVELOPER WEEK HACKATHON, SAN FRANCISCO February 18, 2019
Koushik Bhargav Muthe, CSE and his team from Next Tech Lab – Saptarshi Mazumder, CSE, Rajarshi Mazumder, CSE, Agniswar Paul, ECE, Souradeep Das, SRM KTR, CSE, participated in the Developer Week Hackathon (one of the world’s largest challenge driven hackathons) and won the top prize with an award of $1,000 from Agoraio. The team developed a Blockchain based game that incentivises people to buy products and was selected as the best hack by the Agoraio panel. “We built an Ethereum based card trading game for shoppers that helps sellers win over more customers. We did this by incorporating the Agoraio’s chatting platform into our game.” says Koushik Bhargav.
AND ANOTHER ONE! THE BEST BLOCKCHAIN UTILITY HACK
Miran, Niladri, and Sejal of Next Tech Lab from KTR – A Facebook developer and an entrepreneur, were among the top 5 teams at the Hackathon with 150+ teams and took the first prize for the “Best Blockchain Utility Hack” with a bounty of $500 from Near Protocol. The product will be shown in all developer week magazines. The team made a blockchain based contract system for making corporate or social contracts whereby both parties receive an email to accept or reject. Once both parties accept, an entry on the blockchain is made and the contract can be recovered anytime.
EARLIER IN DENVER
Koushik Bhargav CSE SRM AP and head of Satoshi lab at Next Tech lab, Sauradeep Das, CSE SRM KTR and Agniswar Paul, CSE SRM AP (all three presently in UC Berkeley for the 2019 semester abroad program) taking in the technological wonders at ETH Denver, Colorado, the world’s biggest Ethereum hackathon and conference, Feb.14-17. “It was one the best conferences I have attended, got to meet amazing people working on Blockchain technology from all over the world,” says Koushik. It was great because Satoshi lab focuses completely on Blockchain technology.” Koushik and his colleagues including Miran Junaidi shared ideas with developers, Blockchain startups, mentors and developing hacks. “Many more amazing events lined up for our semester in University of California, Berkeley.”
Continue reading → - Nobel Lectures, Aula Magna, Stockholm University, Sweden, December 2018 January 11, 2019
SEAS students – Saurabh Ghanekar, Aneek Banerjee, Saptarshi Mazumder, Rajarshi Mazumder, Koushik Bhargav and Saurav Raj upon invitation by Prof. Bertil Andersson, (Pro-Chancellor of SRM AP, President Emeritus of NTU, Singapore and ex-Chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry) attended lectures by the 2018 laureates in Physics, Chemistry and Economics.
Continue reading → - “Nation building requires ground-breaking research.” DRDO Chairman, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy January 10, 2019
In a meeting with SRM AP faculty, Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy drew attention to the prestigious ‘Make in India’ initiative, called for research on futuristic technologies for the nations benefit, and encouraged SRM AP to emerge as a hub for new technology development. Dr. G. Satheesh Reddy is eminently qualified to speak of matters like aligning future university led research objectives with national priorities. He holds four key national government portfolios; He is Secretary to the Government of India in the department of Defence R&D; Chairman, Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO); Director General, Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) and Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister (RM).
Continue reading → - SRM AP & Tufts University to host round-table on higher education January 6, 2019
On January 14, 2019, Amaravati (Andhra Pradesh) based SRM University AP and US based Tufts University will host a substantive discussion on higher education, global collaborations and the trends and challenges faced by the sector.
This closed-door, round-table discussion will witness participation of Indian academic leaders, policy makers and administrators and Indian and global higher education leaders. They will deliberate on how higher education has evolved in India and the United States and the trends and challenges that the sector witnesses.
Continue reading → - Dr. Kerry Healey, President, Babson College, joins SRM AP Board of Governors January 4, 2019
Dr. Kerry Healey took office as President of Babson College in July 2013, following three decades of service in academia, government and humanitarian work in the United States and internationally.
Healey is the thirteenth president of Babson College and the first woman to hold that position. Under her leadership, Babson has strengthened its reputation as the recognized global leader in entrepreneurship education, consistently ranked the No. 1 undergraduate school and No. 1 MBA program for entrepreneurship, and No. 1 for international students.
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